Monthly Archives: July 2010
The Purpose of Copyright
Open Spaces Quarterly published an excellent essay on The Purpose of Copyright … The Purpose of Copyright by Lydia Pallas Loren Lydia Pallas Loren is Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College. The core … Continue reading
Model Language for Author Rights in Library Content Licenses
The idea of developing model language for author rights in library content licenses emerged at a meeting on policy development for open-access repositories hosted by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in January 2009…. An ad hoc working group was … Continue reading
Thomas Frey on the “Future of Libraries…”
American Libraries published an interview with Thomas Frey on the Future of Libraries… All around me I see people transitioning from consumers to producers. These “tools of production” that Chris Anderson talked about are now easily accessible. For libraries, the … Continue reading
JISC/OCLC report | Digital information seekers: How academic libraries can support the use of digital resources
A JISC funded OCLC report and podcast on digital information seeking behavior: Users’ perceptions of library services have been slow to change and many people still tend to think of libraries as collections of books rather than providers of electronic … Continue reading
New article on Intellectual Property by Dorothea Salo
Just noticed Dorothea Salo’s article: Salo, Dorothea. “Who owns our work?” Serials 23:3, 2010. http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/45742 abstract: Much turmoil in the scholarly-communication ecosystem appears to revolve around simple ownership of intellectual property. Unpacking that notion, however, produces a fascinating tangle of … Continue reading
Lessig and EFF Respond to ASCAP
The recent fund raising campaign launched by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) prompted several responses including Lawrence Lessig’s response in the Huffington Post in which he defends Creative Commons, Creative Commons own response, and the Electronic … Continue reading
And then there are new models of publishing…
One of the significant issues raised at the SPARC Forum in June was open access text books. Richard Baraniuk talks about one of the open access publishing platforms, Connexions, developed at Rice University. Richard Baraniuk: Goodbye, textbooks; hello, open-source learning
A problem of scale
Personanondata provides an interesting analysis of issues of scalability in commercial publishing. The scale model that built companies like Macmillan, Inc. is irreparably dead to anyone thinking about the future of publishing. The only way out – and it’s not … Continue reading
Act Now to Support FRPAA: Request an Open Hearing on the Bill
Act Now to Support FRPAA: Request an Open Hearing on the Bill The Federal Research Public Access Act (H.R. 5037) has been referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the House of Representatives, where the Chairman is … Continue reading
More on mobile technology in libraries…
GPS may not always be the best or easiest option. Andrew Walsh reports on a project at the University of Huddersfield that uses QR codes to provide contextually sensitive information and training to students. (The link is below, but you … Continue reading
