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Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category Archives: Copyright
Google’s Moon Shot
Google’s Moon Shot is the title of an article in the current New Yorker magazine. The title refers to a quote that likens the Google Book Project to Nasa’s Project Apollo. Quite a bit of interest in this article, including … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Google, Libraries, Search, Space, WebSearch
Tagged Google, Moon Shot
Google, Moon Shot
Google, Moon Shot, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Orphan works remain orphaned
I think we are now in a position where a re-examination of copyright law needs to take place. If the current law cannot allow for orphan works to be used through some process (what we have now is a Catch-22), … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, News
Tagged congress revisiting copyright law, copyright law, media corporations
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PLoS ONE launches
PLoS ONE, created by the Public Library of Science, has launched. Open Access takes a terrific step forward! from Open Access News
Posted in Copyright, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Search
Tagged PLoS ONE;, Public Library of Science, the Public Library of Science
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Open Source ILS
There’s a great article about the Georgia Public Library Service‘s Evergreen project on Linux.com. Well worth reading. from NewsForge
Posted in Copyright, ILS, Libraries, Open Source, Software
Tagged Georgia Public Library Service, Linux, Linux.com;
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MARC records to be available with Creative Commons license???
This potential earthshaking announcement is buried in the awarding of a Mellon Grant to Maison Bisson for work on an innovative merging of blogging software and library catalogs (I’ll just say that it is detailed, and interesting, and could change … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, ILS, Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services
Tagged Librarian.net
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Software for Starving Students
Software for Starving Students is simply that: a collection of freeware and open-source software that is able to be distributed to whomever could benefit. I have been creating distribution CDs like this for my presentations on Open Source Software, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Open Source Software, Starving Students Software
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Internet Archive exempt from DMCA
According to a press release, the Internet Archive has been granted an exemption from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), allowing it to continue archiving web sites, software and such. Hopefully this is the movement towards more reasonable copyright applications … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Copyright, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Internet Archive, Internet Archive exempt, reasonable copyright applications
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Library Student Journal
There is a new publication out there in libraryland, and it is peer-reviewed and open-access (two of my favorite hyphens)! Library Student Journal is being published by the School of Informatics at the University of Buffalo in New York, and … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Education, Libraries, Open Access
Tagged Bill Drew, New York, School of Informatics, Student Journal;, University of Buffalo in New York
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Johns Hopkins Open Courseware translated to Chinese
The open coursework offered by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has been translated into Chinese and made available for study in China. The effort was headed by Lucifer Chu (perhaps best known for translating The Lord of the … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Education, Lecture, Libraries, Medical, Online Services, Open Access, Open Source, Software
Tagged China, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Lucifer Chu, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Lord of the Rings
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College class writing their own textbook
Social and Cultural Foundations of Education will be an interesting course at Old Dominion University, as the coursework will not be taken from the textbook, it will be the textbook. In what may be a first for an undergraduate class, … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Education, Open Access, Training
Tagged Old Dominion University
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Custom Search of DOAJ
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a terrific resource containing, in their words, access to “free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.” If only they had a full-text search tool (they do have a “Find Article” … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Google, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Search, Web Design
Tagged Open Access Journal, search tool
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Scary Stories ready to download
With Halloween just around the corner, the best way to set the mood is with a classic scary story. Check out the Google Scary Stories page (a result of the Google Books project) and see the public domain spookiness that … Continue reading
Copyright Jungle
Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of Copywrongs and The Anarchist in the Library, has an essay in the current Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), titled Copyright Jungle. You should read it. I don’t think things are quite as bleak as he portrays (I … Continue reading
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Tagged Author, Columbia Journalism Review, Copyright Jungle, Jungle Siva Vaidhyanathan
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Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT)
The Joint Information Systems Committee, an organization based in England, has launched a tool to help libraries and researchers compare and contrast different online databases. The Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT) lets you quickly see the similarities and differences among … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Education, Libraries, Online Databases, Search, Software, Web Design
Tagged Joint Information Systems Committee, Online Databases, United Kingdom
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Google Books and UW Madison
Google and the University of Wisconsin – Madison announced today that they will be partners in the Google Books project. This is getting kind of local… less than 200 miles! from Search Engine Watch
Posted in Copyright, Google, Libraries, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google, Madison, search engine, University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin
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An example of where Open Source could have helped…
NASA recently made 1100 Apollo-era documents, including Mission Reports (I have read several, and they are truly fascinating to those interested in manned spaceflight), Evaluation Reports, Scientific Studies, and Interviews, available on a DVD-ROM, calling it the Lunar e-Library. Fantastic! … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Libraries, Open Access, Open Source, Software, Space
Tagged National Aeronautics and Space Administration, open source software world, restrictive software license, software license
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Open Access Textbooks
Two more sites found in the realm of Open Access Textbooks, and one has bought the other: Freeload Press has bought Textbook Revolution in order to further their cause to bring a wider range of open access textbooks to students … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Education, Open Access
Tagged Freeload Press, Textbook Revolution
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Remembering Fair Use
I find it interesting when organizations forget about fair use when they establish copyright policies. It is especially interesting when the organization is educational in nature, like the University of Southern California. I think it is necessary to counter blanket … Continue reading
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Tagged California, copyright law, University of Southern California
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More news from Google Book Search
Google Book Search announced today that they were making public domain materials available for download. In the Information Today article, it was stressed that the downloads were the pdf image files, and were not able to be keyword searched, as … Continue reading
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University of Michigan, the
University of Michigan, U.S. government, United States
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Convergence
Sometimes a topic comes at you from several different angles. Hopefully this allows one to see it in a broader fashion… The college where I work just finished the first week of classes. Many students have incredible financial pressures when … Continue reading
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Tagged California, textbook rental systems
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