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Copyright Issue Widgets
via Transforming Scholarly Communication by Adrian Ho on February 16, 2008
... are the exceptions to copyright?What are the specific teaching exceptions?How does Fair Use work?Without certainty, how does fair use help?How is copyright transferred?How do licenses work?What is the Creative Commons?Where does a publication contract fit in?Kudos to Kevin Smith for sharing his expertise! These widgets are useful to the academic community and librarians alike.
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Presentations from the Open Access Collections Workshop
via DigitalKoans by Charles Bailey on February 17, 2008
... workshop are now available.Here are selected presentations:The Institutional/Disciplinary Divide, a Barrier to Open AccessManaging Copyright for Open AccessThe Open Access Repository—A Researcher's ToolThe Public Knowledge Project: Building Open Access Communities with Open Source SoftwareSome Experience with Digital Publishing, Open Access Repositories, Research Impact & Quality
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Blog-style annotation and in-depth criticism: New niche for academic journals, in wake of Harvard open-access move?
via TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home by David Rothman on February 16, 2008
Harvard wants to Web-publish the research of faculty members, and other schools will inevitably follow.Will this kill off academic journals? Not all of them.The smarter ones could adapt with better-than-ever peer review procedures and maybe even use a blog approach. They could link to the best research and also comment on the worst, while offering far, far more depth than a blog would.Perhaps in...
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Free business book is Web sensation
via LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News by Bibliofuture on February 16, 2008
The Oprah touch doesn't just work for traditional books. More than 1 million copies of Suze Orman's "Women & Money" were downloaded after the announcement last week on Winfrey's television show that the e-book edition would be available for free on her Web site, http://www.oprah.com, for a period of 33 hours."I believe `Women & Money' is the most important book I've ever...
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Society for Scholarly Publishing - Publisher Reports on New Technologies
via del.icio.us|subscriptions|kariek by grasshopperlibr on February 18, 2008
bookmark this on del.icio.us - posted by grasshopperlibr toscholarly_communicationWeb2.0web2.0classmedicine2.0publishing - more about this bookmark...
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A few thoughts in favour of the Google Books project
via The Distant Librarian by Paul R. Pival on February 18, 2008
Charles Edward Smith has a brief piece in Educause Quarterly in which he points out why he thinks Google Books Search is a good thing.A curious amount of unease surrounds Google's initiative to scan thousands of books in major research libraries and make them available online. Although I understand the concerns, I don't entirely sympathize with them...Technorati Tags: Google_Book_Search
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Reed Elsevier May Cut 1,000 Positions
via DigitalKoans by Charles Bailey on February 19, 2008
The Sunday Telegraph reports that publishing giant Reed Elsevier may cut as many as 1,000 positions from its 37,000 person workforce.Read more about it at "Reed Elsevier Cost Cuts to Claim 1,000 Jobs."
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Larry Lessig for Congress
via BuzzFeed Latest by (author unknown) on February 19, 2008
Stanford law professor who founded Creative Commons explores a bid for Congress. Join the draft movement here.Exciting news for the BoingBoing set for whom net neutrality is a much bigger issue than illegal immigration.Best 10 Links:He's a True Liberal, Which is Why Intellectual Conservatives and Liberals Alike Will Embrace HimLessig '08 - Change Congress.Draft Lessig Official...
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