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- HathiTrust and Google Will Help Duke Press Digitize Books - Research - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Orphan Works - der falsche Weg
- Obama Administration Wants to Eliminate References to Doha Declaration in UN Political Declaration on Non-Communicable Diseases | Knowledge Ecology International
- Beta Sprint Sneak Peek
- Open access U of T
- A barrier-free world with open-access publishing
- Orphan Works Project to Scan Library Books for Online Database
- Cream of Science auf deutsch: Bücher und Aufsätze von Leibniz-Preisträgern
- RePEc in August 2011
- HathiTrust's Growth Strategy: Full-Text Search Coming to WorldCat and EBSCO Discovery Service
- 1000th Publisher added to SHERPA RoMEO
- JSTOR opens access to out-of-copyright articles
- HathiTrust full-text index to be integrated into OCLC services
- OpenAIRE Opening science to all. Together. - Research Infrastructures - Research - European Commission
- “Washington Declaration” Demands Return Of Public Interest In IP Rights | Intellectual Property Watch
- Portal of journals goes online
- University World News - GLOBAL: New guidelines for open educational resources
- ATG Hot Topic of the Week: The Economics of Scholarly Communication
- Kitware Awarded Department of Energy Research Grant to aid Access to Data Provided by the Ongoing Efforts of the U.S. Global Change Research Program
- GRB 110820A, the review of the sky area in plate archives
- Libraries, Publishers, Consortia - YouTube
| Posted: 12 Sep 2011 06:51 AM PDT chronicle.com "Duke University Press has struck an agreement with HathiTrust and Google to make a large number of its backlist titles freely available through the HathiTrust digital repository. The press, like many others, hasn't had spare resources to digitize and archive all those books itself. As many as a thousand titles could be eligible for the project, which the partners hope will be a model for other publishers who want to widen access to their material. With permission from rights holders, the books will be made available under a Creative Commons noncommercial license, so that anyone may read and use them for nonmonetary purposes....For users who like what they see and want to buy a copy of a book, the press plans to offer a print-on-demand option, with Google's blessing...." |
| Orphan Works - der falsche Weg Posted: 12 Sep 2011 06:42 AM PDT |
| Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:44 AM PDT www.keionline.org "The United States and the European Union are using a United Nations High Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) to effectively renegotiate a landmark agreement on intellectual property rights and public health. What is at stake is an interpretation of the diseases covered by a 2001 WTO agreement that says that intellectual property rights should be implemented in a manner that promotes "access to medicine for all." The issue is whether the UN recognizes the relevance of the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health, which was negotiated on November 14, 2001....The UN negotiation on Non-Communicable Diseases has been, from the start, deeply influenced by companies that hold patents on drugs, diagnostics and medical devices for cancer, diabetes and heart disease....By seeking to eliminate any references to the Doha Declaration, the U.S. appears to be asserting that the "access to medicine for all" provisions in the Doha Declaration do not apply to drugs for cancer and other non-communicable diseases...." |
| Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:27 AM PDT Digital Public Library of America - Beta Sprint, (09 Sep 2011) "Last Thursday marked the close of the Digital Public Library of America Beta Sprint, an open call for code and concepts defining how the DPLA should operate. By the 11:59pm deadline, we had received nearly 40 final submissions ranging widely from digital storytelling projects to complex text annotation systems to new ways of searching library collections. The Beta Sprinters are a diverse group of non-profits, media organizations, academic and public librarians, students, government agencies, and interested individuals throughout the United States (along with a few participants from even further afield). The Beta Sprint Review Panel will meet in mid-September to evaluate the submissions, but in the meantime, some of the sprinters have offered sneak peeks at their projects: ..." |
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| A barrier-free world with open-access publishing Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:04 AM PDT www.thehindu.com "The International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS), based on the Technopark campus here [in Thiruvananthapuram, India], is poised to take its first step into open-access publishing. The centre is set to release the Journal of Free Software and Free Knowledge on Monday, representing the next stage in the free software movement...." |
| Orphan Works Project to Scan Library Books for Online Database Posted: 12 Sep 2011 04:58 AM PDT newsbreaks.infotoday.com "The University of Michigan Library and several other major academic libraries are partnering with the HathiTrust Digital Library to try and do what Google cannot: develop a searchable library of scanned books, including so-called “orphan works,” from the resources in the libraries’ existing print collections. This Orphan Works Project could result in digital access to millions of out-of-print books, but also runs a risk of violating federal copyright laws. Joining Michigan and the HathiTrust in the Orphan Works Project are the libraries at Cornell, Duke, Emory, Johns Hopkins, and the Universities of Florida, Wisconsin, and California....The Orphan Works Project hopes to avoid [Google-type] copyright problems by relying on copyright’s fair use doctrine, which permits some uses of copyright works without permission for scholarly, research, teaching, and other beneficial purposes. Because all of the participants are non-profit universities, they hope to avoid the commercial use problems that Google faces. In addition, the use of orphan works scanned under the project will initially be restricted to on-campus users only...." |
| Cream of Science auf deutsch: Bücher und Aufsätze von Leibniz-Preisträgern Posted: 12 Sep 2011 04:16 AM PDT |
| Posted: 11 Sep 2011 07:43 PM PDT The RePEc Blog, (06 Sep 2011) "[RePEc] experienced some relatively light traffic over the past month, with 532,762 file downloads and 1,835,609 abstract views. Also, only six new archives joined RePEc: Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Economics Program, UNICEF, Saphira Publishing House, Association for Cultural Economics International, World Demographic and Ageing Forum, Universität Duisburg-Essen (II). But despite this light activity, we got some interesting thresholds passed during last month: 650000 listed articles; 350000 online working papers; 150000 cited working papers; 33333 NEP reports created;...75 countries with RePEc archives ..." |
| HathiTrust's Growth Strategy: Full-Text Search Coming to WorldCat and EBSCO Discovery Service Posted: 11 Sep 2011 07:39 PM PDT www.libraryjournal.com "Today, in separate announcements, OCLC and EBSCO both unveiled plans to integrate full-text HathiTrust search capability into WorldCat and EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), respectively. Once implemented, the deals will make the full texts of all of the 9.5 million-plus works in the digital repository searchable by some of the most widely used discovery tools—and greatly expand the accessibility of the massive HathiTrust corpus. No firm dates have been announced for when the full-text search functionality will become available for either. But, in the near term, the agreements are helping to solidify HathiTrust's place as the closest thing the United States has to a national digital library...." |
| 1000th Publisher added to SHERPA RoMEO Posted: 11 Sep 2011 07:38 PM PDT www.sherpa.ac.uk "SHERPA Services’ is delighted to announce the addition of the 1000th publisher ‘International Institute for Religious Freedom’ to the SHERPA RoMEO database. The addition of the 1000th publisher is a significant landmark for the SHERPA RoMEO service, which now has its own journals database, containing policies of over 18000 journals from 1000 publishers...." |
| JSTOR opens access to out-of-copyright articles Posted: 11 Sep 2011 07:36 PM PDT The Occasional Pamphlet, (08 Sep 2011) "JSTOR, the non-profit online journal distributor, announced yesterday that they would be making pre-1923 US articles and pre-1870 non-US articles available for free in a program they call “Early Journal Content”. The chosen dates are not random of course; they guarantee that the articles have fallen out of copyright, so such distribution does not run into rights issues. Nonetheless, that doesn’t mean that JSTOR could take this action unilaterally. JSTOR is further bound by agreements with the publishers who provided the journals for scanning, which may have precluded them contractually from distributing even public domain materials that were derived from the provided originals. Thus such a program presumably requires cooperation of the journal publishers. In addition, JSTOR requires goodwill from publishers for all of its activities, so unilateral action could have been problematic for its long-run viability. (Such considerations may even in part underly JSTOR’s not including all public domain material in the opened collection.) ..." |
| HathiTrust full-text index to be integrated into OCLC services Posted: 11 Sep 2011 07:34 PM PDT "OCLC and HathiTrust have signed an agreement that will allow OCLC to integrate the HathiTrust full-text index into OCLC services, enabling member libraries and their users to more easily discover resources from this important digital collection through WorldCat. Under this new agreement, OCLC will be able to integrate the full-text index of HathiTrust collections into services such as WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local. Following integration of the full-text index, users will be able to search beyond bibliographic records to include the full text of these cooperatively built library collections in their searches...." |
| Posted: 11 Sep 2011 07:25 PM PDT ec.europa.eu "OpenAIRE places Europe as a front runner and a key player on the global Open Access movement, and by its enthusiastic human network and community building efforts, it aligns and fills in the gaps in technology and organization of publication repositories in all EC member states. By spreading and implementing the Open Access European policies, it unlocks the research results and makes them public, promoting the role of the citizen-scientist and opening up research opportunities to researchers in smaller research institutes, SMEs or other developing environments. Due to the synchronized and targeted outreach efforts of OpenAIRE, European public research funding has now the chance to have a greater impact on more people...." |
| Posted: 11 Sep 2011 07:13 PM PDT www.ip-watch.org "A new multi-stakeholder declaration demanding that the public interest be returned to intellectual property rights was issued this week and is open for signatures by anyone, already collecting hundreds of supporters. The declaration contains numerous principles and actions, such as restraint in enforcement, open access, and development priorities, that the drafters hope will help change the course of IP policymaking....Among the many suggestions in it, several highlighted by the organisers include:...promotion of open access, open educational resources, open government and related open information policies...." |
| Portal of journals goes online Posted: 11 Sep 2011 07:07 PM PDT www.universityworldnews.com "A portal that boasts nearly a million scientific articles journals from Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal will now be available online for free. The service, which will provide access to full texts, was launched at the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) on Tuesday. The portal, dubbed the Latindex Portal of Portals (PPL), will be composed of 18 scientific, technical and cultural journal websites. The sites include Dialnet, Redalyc and the peer-reviewed SciELO, as well as repositories of scientific journals from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Spain, Mexico, Peru and Colombia, and the Catalan open access web library RACO...." |
| University World News - GLOBAL: New guidelines for open educational resources Posted: 11 Sep 2011 06:58 PM PDT www.universityworldnews.com "Open educational resources (OER) have the potential to increase access to education while cutting costs and improving quality. They are, therefore, an important element of the Commonwealth of Learning's mission of 'Learning for Development'. International guidelines for OER in higher education have been drafted, and comments are being invited....The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) would like to see all countries make educationally useful material that has been developed with public funds freely available for use and adaptation under open licences...." |
| ATG Hot Topic of the Week: The Economics of Scholarly Communication Posted: 11 Sep 2011 06:52 PM PDT Against-the-Grain.com, (09 Sep 2011) |
| Posted: 11 Sep 2011 06:50 PM PDT www.sfgate.com "Kitware has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) to create analysis tools with easy, simplified access to computer model outputs resulting from long-term, high-resolution, climate change projections performed by the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Kitware's proposed application, ClimatePipes, will facilitate access to the data for non-researchers, as opposed to a more technical audience. Effective analysis in climate science relies on having the appropriate cyberinfrastructure to enable people to discover, access, manipulate, and visualize large and complex datasets of interest. Facilitating widespread accessibility of this data can have a significant impact on commercial, educational, and government activities...." |
| GRB 110820A, the review of the sky area in plate archives Posted: 11 Sep 2011 12:18 PM PDT gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov Abstract: We have undertaken the review of the sky area in vicinity of GRB 110820A (Beardmore GCN Circ.12091) on astronegatives, collected in Ukrainian NAS Main astronomical observatory plate archive (1976-1996). All the plates with the possible object appearance are digitized using Microtek ScanMaker 9800XL TMA and Epson Expression 10000XL flatbed scanners and have been placed into Golosiiv Plate Archive database DBGPA with open access to them. |
| Libraries, Publishers, Consortia - YouTube Posted: 11 Sep 2011 07:41 AM PDT |
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