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The Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy How Publishers and Platforms Have Reshaped the Way We Read in the Digital Age (New White Paper From Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy/NYU Law)
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|From the Engelberg Center’s News Release: The Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy at NYU Law has released a groundbreaking new white paper, “The Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy: How Publishers and Platforms Have Reshaped the Way We Read in the Digital Age.” The paper examines the economic, legal, and social dynamics of ebook licensing and […]
AI-Text Detection Tools are Really Easy to Fool (via Technology Review) Bias in Big Data, Machine Learning and AI: What Lessons for the Digital Humanities? (via DHQ) Flickr Foundation is Building a New Bridge Between Flickr and Wikimedia Commons OAA Report: A Snapshot of the Open Access Landscape in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand In […]
Digitization Projects: University of Hawaii at Mānoa Library Makes Rare 200-year-old Japanese Scrolls Accessible Worldwide
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|From the University of Hawaii Mānoa Library: Students and scholars at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa (and worldwide) can now easily access and view the fine details of rare, hand-painted Japanese scrolls, made possible by UH Mānoa Library’s new state-of-the-art digitization lab. The scrolls titled 鯨魚鑬笑録 (Geigyo ranshōroku), or “A simple overview of whaling” were created […]
From Georgia Tech University: Artificial intelligence (AI) can help people shop, plan, and write — but not cook. It turns out humans aren’t the only ones who have a hard time following step-by-step recipes in the correct order, but new research from the Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Computing could change that. Researchers created […]
International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Governing Board Announces an Advisory Referendum About World Library and Information Congress 2024 (WLIC 2024)
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|Here’s the Full Text of a Post From the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA): On 19 June, the IFLA Governing Board’s published its decision to select Dubai, United Arab Emirates, as the host for the World Library and Information Congress 2024 (WLIC 2024). Since then, IFLA has received criticism about the decision as well as […]
U.S. Department of Energy Releases Plan to Ensure Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research
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|From the U.S. Department of Energy: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released a plan to ensure the Department’s Federally funded research is more open and accessible to the public, researchers, and journalists as part of a broader effort by the Biden-Harris Administration to make government data more transparent. With 17 National Laboratories and scores […]
Duke University Libraries Selects Alma Library Services Platform From Ex Libris; Scholarly Paper Pirating Spikes in Japan, But Critics Slam Journals’ “Double-Take” Fees; & More News Headlines
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|Connecticut: Essex Public Library Restores ‘Pride’ Displays After Over 20 Books Were Removed By Visitor (via WTNH) ||| More From Fox 61 News Duke University Libraries Selects Alma Library Services Platform From Ex Libris (via DUL) Iowa School Librarians Await Guidance as They Prepare For New Law That Will Ban Certain Materials (via The Gazette) […]
The article linked below was recently published by Scientific Data. Title CORE: A Global Aggregation Service for Open Access Papers Authors Petr Knoth Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK Drahomira Herrmannova Matteo Cancellieri Lucas Anastasiou Nancy Pontika Samuel Pearce Bikash Gyawali David Pride Source Scientific Data Volume 10, Article number: 366 (2023) DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02208-w Abstract This paper introduces […]
GPO and NOAA Partner to Increase Permanent Public Access to NOAA Publications
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|From a Joint Announcement: U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Central Library is working to add more than 47,000 unique items published by NOAA authors and grantees to the National Collection of U.S. Government Public Information. GPO shares NOAA’s goal of providing additional avenues to access […]
Yale Launches LUX, A Powerful New Search Tool For Cross-Collection Exploration
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|From the Yale Library: LUX: Collection Discovery—a new cross-collection search tool—provides users worldwide with online access to more than 17 million items within Yale University’s museums, libraries, and archives. “The LUX project is an incredible way to bring together the diverse collections across the cultural heritage units at Yale,” said Barbara Rockenbach, Stephen F. Gates […]