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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category Archives: Publishing
Long Copyrights Kill Books
This. The Hole in our Collective Memory : How Copyright made Mid-Century Books Vanish These are frightening numbers, and they should force us to consider the negative effects of longer copyright terms. The publication of knowledge and creativity blossomed during … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Ethics, Government, OCLC, Publishing
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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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The Common Sense of the Fair-Use Doctrine
Copyright can be a challenging maze for library folk and educators, and no area causes more stress than the Fair-Use Doctrine. This is mainly because it deals with gray areas of use, presenting guidelines rather than rules. The Common Sense … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Education, Libraries, Publishing
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Google Books Unsettled
The Google Books Settlement was tossed out by U.S. District Judge Denny Chin, arguing that it gave too much power to Google in allowing the company “significant rights to exploit entire books.” The major problem appears to be the issue … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Government, News, Publishing
Tagged Copyright, copyright law, Denny Chin, Fair Use, Google Book Search, Google Inc., Orphan works
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Not so Hot Off the Presses
The Guardian newspaper has an interesting story about what can happen when a book from a small publisher wins a prestigious literary award. This is apparently happening more often, as ec0nomic pressures are causing larger publishers to skip innovative/riskier books … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Publishing
Tagged Books, OhioLINK, Publishing, Stephen King, the Guardian
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The Skinny on Sheepskin
Wired is running a story that links the size of e-readers to sheep. I think it is a stretch (and they admit it, as well), but the story does have a terrific guide to why books have traditionally been their … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Definitions, History, Publishing
Tagged Books, e-readers, History, paper, Sheep, technology, Vellum, Wired;
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How the Digital Revolution Changed Our World
An visual chart in the current Newsweek sums up many of the changes we have seen over the past decade: Exactly How Much Are The Times A-Changin’? The categories that are in decline speak volumes: The US Postal Service is … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Books, Google, Government, History, News, Periodicals, Publishing, Statistics, WebSearch
Tagged Blogs, Books, Google, History, News, Newsweek, Publishing, Statistics
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APA Offers to Replace 6th Edition of Style Manual
For the background on this issue, see Quis custodiet isos custodes. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, the American Psychological Association has decided to offer copies of the second printing of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Education, Language, Libraries, News, Publishing
Tagged American Psychological Association, APA, Bill Drew, Facebook, Inside Higher Ed, social networks, the Chronicle of Higher Education;
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
The title is latin for “Who watches the watchers?” The American Psychological Association’s current style book, Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th ed., contains dozens of errors, several of them in examples and sample papers. Needless to say, … Continue reading
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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If you were thinking about buying a magazine or two…
Publishers Weekly is reporting that not only are they up for sale by their publisher, Reed Business Information, but that Library Journal and School Library Journal are available as well. Without knowing the cost/profit information for each of these, I … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Periodicals, Publishing
Tagged Blog, Library Journal, Online social networking, Publishers Weekly, Publishing, Reed Business Information, School Library Journal, Twitter, Web 2.0
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World eBook Fair
The World eBook Fair begins this Saturday, July 4th, coinciding with Project Gutenberg‘s 39th anniversary. To celebrate, the World eBook Fair members are providing free access to over two million books between July 4th and August 4th. found via ResourceShelf
Posted in Books, Event, History, Libraries, News, Publishing
Tagged e-book, Electronic publishing, Project Gutenberg, World eBook Fair
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HTML 5, Google Wave, and the Future of the Web
Amidst a great many other topics, HTML 5 has been on my mind the past couple of weeks. It started on Tuesday, May 26th, with Kevin Yank posting HTML 5 : Now or Never? on the SitePoint blog. He was … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, Groups, Libraries, Library 2.0, News, Online Services, Open Source, Publishing, Web Design
Tagged collaboration mash-up tool, Facebook, FaceBook/Twitter/Blogging, Google, html, Kevin Yank, Libraries, online meetings, Online Services, Open Source, Sergey Brin, Twitter, Web Amidst, Web Design, web presences
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Copyright Law, Love and Hate
Cory Doctorow has an interesting take on the differing attitude of copyright between those who wish to wish to honor a creative work and those who wish to diminish it. An excerpt: “The upshot of this is that you’re on … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Fair Use, Libraries, Publishing
Tagged Copyright, copyright law, Cory Doctorow, fan fiction, Firefly
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Libology on the Kindle
Saw a post on TechCrunch that indicated that Amazon has opened their offerings of blog subscriptions for the Kindle reader to all blogs that sign up. So now Libology is available to readers of the Kindle… with two caveats: It … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Online Services, Periodicals, Publishing
Tagged Amazon, cent, Kindle, Kindle reader, Libology, USD
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