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Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category Archives: Open Access
A New Era of Scientific Publishing
This. Why is Science Behind a Paywall? We are in the middle of the most dramatic and significant change in publishing since the proliferation of the printing press. One area that has been resistant to change has been peer-reviewed scientific … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, History, Libraries, Open Access, Periodicals, Publishing, Science
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RECAPing PACER
PACER is the online access portal for “U.S. Appellate, District, and Bankruptcy court records and documents nationwide”. Because the documents it provides are created by the federal judiciary, they are not copyrightable; because PACER is the only place to obtain … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Copyright, Government, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Open Source, Software
Tagged appellate court, Bankruptcy court, federal government, firefox, Government, Internet Archive, Legal research, Open Access, Open Source, PACER, Public records, RECAP, United States copyright law
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OHP + SPO = OA
The Open Humanities Press (OHP) has joined forces with the University of Michigan Library’s Scholarly Publications Office (SPO) to start up a series of open access monographs: New Metaphysics Critical Climate Change Global Conversations Unidentified Theoretical Objects and my favorite… … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Licensing, Open Access, Publishing
Tagged Entertainment/Culture, Karen Schneiderman, OHP, Open Access, Open Humanities Press, remix, Scholarly Publications Office, SPO, University of Michigan
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Swine Flu Resources
I suspect that Swine Flu is likely to be a common research question for reference departments around the world during the foreseeable future. I have had an interest in the 1918 influenza epidemic pandemic for several years, and have spent … Continue reading
Colleges and E-Texts
Paper Cut : Missouri College Embraces E-Textbooks is a story that was broadcast this morning on NPR. The headline is slightly misleading, in that they are running a pilot program in which 500 students are trying out E-Texts for one … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Open Access, Publishing
Tagged E-Texts, Northwest Missouri State, Open Access
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Ranking Web of World Repositories
Cybermetrics Lab, a research group based in Spain, has released a listing of the top 300 digital repositories in the world, which include a Top 300 Repository List and a Top 300 Institutional List. This looks to be a great … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Search
Tagged Cybermetrics Lab, Digital Repository, Spain, Stephen's Lighthouse
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A Look Back, A Look Ahead
2008 was an uncertain year for Libraryland. Ideas and tools abound for how we can do more with what we have, and we are becoming more aware of what it is we have : data and the systems to organize … Continue reading
Posted in Google, ILS, Libraries, Library 2.0, Licensing, OCLC, Online Services, OPAC, Open Access, Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged forecasts, Google, higher-level software;, internet use;, Libraries, OCLC, office software, social networking features, USD
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Open and Libraries Class Journal
The Open and Libraries Class Journal is a new, peer-reviewed journal on open access and libraries, and the first issue contains the “final papers for the Open Movement and Libraries class (LIBR287-06) at San Jose State University, School of Library … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Library 2.0, Open Access, Publishing
Tagged Libraries, Libraries Class Journal;, Open Access, Open Movement;, San Jose State University
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Dead Sea Scrolls going Online
In an example of how much open access may change scholarship, it was announced the Dead Sea Scrolls will be scanned in high resolution and made available online and open access. As more primary sources are made available for study, … Continue reading
Posted in History, Online Databases, Open Access, Translation
Tagged dead sea scrolls, israel, online and open access;, Online In;, Open Access, scholarship, Sea Scrolls
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Oil and Journals
Mike Dunford writing in of The Questionable Authority has written a post that compares the business model and profits of journal publishers with oil companies. One figure that he arrives at is shocking, to say the least, but also illustrative … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Open Access, Periodicals, Publishing
Tagged Exxon;, Gas prices, journal prices, Mike Dunford, Mobil, oil;, Open Access, Questionable Authority, USD
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Online Textbook Copyright Infringement
Peter Suber at Open Access News has an excellent post on the language being used when discussing copyright infringement of textbooks. I personally prefer what I have in the title of this post; results may vary. We have been through … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Ethics, Open Access, Publishing
Tagged Copyright, Open Access, Peter Suber
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International Journal of Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork
One area of scholarly research that I enjoy following is Therapeutic Massage. Having taken an introductory class taught by an excellent instructor, as well as enjoying regular sessions, I have found the benefits to be many. So it is a … Continue reading
Infochimps.org
Think of Infochimps.org as not only a wikipedia of data sets, but as potentially the greatest data mash-up tool yet. Imagine having loads of census, weather, sports, and other statistical data available in one big database. Then standardize the fields … Continue reading
Posted in Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Search, Statistics
Tagged baseball;, data mash-up tool, greatest data mash-up tool, news-and-other-media keywords, public campaign finance records, web designers
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Open Access and Undergraduate Research
A great, thought-provoking post on the OpenStudents blog : Open Access meets Undergrad Research… Please? If I were to be researching a paper on a topic that has a strong open access presence (and the easiest way to see these … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Copyright, Education, Libraries, Open Access
Tagged instructor, live web connection
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Planet eBook
There are many ebook web sites; there are many free ebook sites, even. Planet eBook is special, and you should take a look for yourself and see what I mean. They have been around only a few months, their offerings … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Open Access
Tagged ebook web sites, online core
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Book Scanning at the Internet Archive
Wired.com has a great set of photographs detailing the process that goes into scanning books for the Internet Archive’s text project. The process isn’t what I envisioned… I expected something that would look like it came from the radiology department … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Books, Open Access, Photography
Tagged Canon EOS, Canon EOS 1D, Canon EOS-5D Digital Camera with 24-105mm Lens, digital cameras, Internet Archive
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Open Bibliographic Data : The State of Play
Open Bibliographic Data : The State of Play is a post by Rufus Pollock at the Open Knowledge Foundation which examines a variety of sources for cataloging and database information. He makes the observation, which I think is on target, … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Cataloging, Copyright, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access
Tagged Open Knowledge Foundation, Play Open, Rufus Pollock
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