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Scholarly Publishing: Now on Video
via The Chicago Blog by TXM on July 02, 2008
For decades digital technology has steadily transformed the business of academic publishing, but much of the digitization of the industry has, until more recently, gone on behind the scenes in the form of new printing technologies, databases, design and production tools, etc. Then in the mid-1990s the internet began to change how our customers find out about and purchase our books. And just as...
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Kindle is fun but sucks for scholars
via Everything is Miscellaneous by davidw on July 02, 2008
I’m enjoying my Amazon Kindle ebook reader, albeit while accidentally pressing the “next page” button as often as everyone else (did they beta test this thing all on the thumbless?), and whining about the rest of the annoyances about which you should not even get me started. Nevertheless, it works fine for pleasure reading and I like carrying a whole bunch of books among which I can switch...
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Scholarly Publication at the Digital Tipping Point
via The Journal of Electronic Publishing by Pochoda, Phil on June 06, 2008
The Journal of Electronic Publishing Vol. 11 Issue 2, 2008-05-30. Two years ago, the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of Michigan’s University Library embarked on a joint publishing project, digitalculturebooks, whose aim was to publish books about new media in both a printed for-sale version and an open access (OA) online version. The intention was not only to...
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Can Twitter Be Saved?
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on June 16, 2008
If there's anything Twitter can be counted on for, lately it's been the service's instability. The situation got so bad that avid twitterers have now gotten used to loading up istwitterdown.com in one of their browser tabs while debating whether FriendFeed was going to replace Twitter. As Twitter started the long, hard process of a rebuild, the team learned how to quickly adjust the...
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Great AIR Apps I Use
via SheGeeks by Corvida on May 26, 2008
Lately, my list of AIR applications has grown tremendously. So I thought I’d share the AIR apps I have installed and actually use on a weekly basis. This post was inspired by Jeffisageek’s post Using Adobe Air? Google Analytics Reporting Suite Google Analytics Reporting Suite on AIR brings you the best of the Google Analytics web tool for statistics. When I don’t...
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Digital Preservation of E-Journals in 2008: Urgent Action Revisited Released
via DigitalKoans by Charles Bailey on June 06, 2008
Portico and Ithaka have released Digital Preservation of E-Journals in 2008: Urgent Action Revisited.Here's an excerpt from the announcement:In September 2005, library directors from 17 universities and colleges met to discuss the current state of electronic journal preservation and endorsed a statement calling for “Urgent Action” to preserve scholarly e-journals. Over two years later in...
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New Wiki Helps Humanities Researchers Find Online Tools
via The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog by Jeff Young on June 06, 2008
A new wiki provides a directory of online tools for humanities scholars. The site, which uses software that lets anyone edit or add to the material, covers more than 20 categories, including blogging tools, specialized search engines for scholars, and software programs that can record what is on a user’s screen.The site, called Digital Research Tools, or DiRT, is run by Lisa Spiro, director of...
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Wikis about OA
via Peter Scott's Library Blog - sponsored by Credo Reference by noreply@blogger.com (Peter) on June 08, 2008
Wikis about OA is a list of wikis focusing on open access and related issues
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The emergence of OA
via Open Access News by noreply@blogger.com (Peter Suber) on June 07, 2008
... publishing is concerned with the distribution of scholarly information through journals and conferences and other information media. As such scholarly publishing can be understood as a specific part of the information industry. With the advent of advanced information technologies many possible technologically enabled futures have been posited for scholarly publishing. This paper describes the ...
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OLPC 2.0
via BuzzFeed - Latest by (author unknown) on May 20, 2008
TECH BUZZ – The next version of the One Laptop Per Child will sport duel touchscreens (if it ever gets made). Despite on-going problems within the OLPC project — and that’s not include the pricing and delivery problems the first OLPC laptop had — Nicholas Negroponte has unveiled an ambitious design for the next generation of laptops: More e-book like, with two touchscreens (readable in...
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