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Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category Archives: Publishing
Free L’Amour
To celebrate the 100th birthday of Louis L’Amour, Bantam Books is providing a free copy of “Education of a Wandering Man : The Centennial Hardcover Edition” to any free lending library in the United States. found via the Unshelved blog
Posted in Books, Libraries, Promotions, Publishing
Tagged Bantam Books, Louis L\'Amour, United States
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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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Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0
Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0 is the title of the preface, but also a good summary of the overall content, of the current issue of First Monday. Just from a scan of the articles (nope, I haven’t read any of … Continue reading
Posted in Library 2.0, Publishing, Web Design
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Recipes for a 5-Star Library
Recipes for a 5-Star Library is the latest “cookbook” from the MaintainIT project. The cookbooks are pdf files that are free to use The project focuses on public computers in libraries, and their Library Spotlight articles are drawn from real-world … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Publishing, Software, Training
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Public Domain Archive and Reprints Service
The Public Domain Archive and Reprints Service is something that I have thought would make an interesting business model: take public domain materials and publish them using a print-on-demand service. With the various scanning projects, there are more and more … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Books, Libraries, Publishing
Tagged Public Domain Archive and Reprints Service
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Speed Writing
A couple of years ago I encountered some type of advertisement for a particular book. I don’t recall what the exact title was, but it was something along the lines of “The 2004 Outlook for Thingamajiggers in the United States.” … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Publishing
Tagged Amazon.com, Author, particular author, Philip M. Parker, the Guardian, United States, USD
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Primer on Copyright Liability and Fair Use
Primer on Copyright Liability and Fair Use is part of the Citizen Media Law Project’s Legal Guide, scheduled to launch later this month. It contains a great introduction/overview of what is allowed and not allowed with copyright. Best of all, … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Fair Use, Online Services, Publishing
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Census Atlas of the United States
Census Atlas of the United States is the first publication of a “comprehensive atlas of population and housing produced by the Census Bureau since the 1920s.” The maps are beautiful and easy to use, although I doubt that an atlas … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Maps, Publishing, Web Design
Tagged Bureau of the Census, free online edition, United States, USD
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Free-Reading
Free-Reading is “an ‘open-source’ instructional program that helps teachers teach early reading.” Aimed at Kindergarten/First Grade learners, it is a collaborative means to establish an education program that combines the strengths of those who work on the project, and makes … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Education, Government, Open Access, Publishing, Wiki
Tagged Florida, reading
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7 Things You Should Know About Lulu (and a book update)
7 Things You Should Know About Lulu (Pdf) is a two-paged pamphlet that is a great overview of what the web-based publishing company Lulu can do, especially if you are in an academic setting. I have quite a bit of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Library 2.0, Publishing
Tagged Lulu, web-based publishing
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) review
Review : Directory of Open Access Journals (Pdf), by Heather Morrison is a very good introduction to what is becoming a top-tier collection of journals. Although some of the statistics are a bit dated (due to a strength of the … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Periodicals, Publishing
Tagged Directory of Open Access Journals;, Heather Morrison
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Institutional Repositories
If you work at an academic library, especially a school which emphasizes publication, then the issue of Institutional Repositories is critical to understand. Even if you don’t fit the above, these repositories, combined with Open Access, will strongly effect librarianship, … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Open Access, Periodicals, Publishing
Tagged Charles W. Bailey, de Suite, Eric Lease Morgan, Jr.
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Code4Lib Journal
Issue 1 of the Code4Lib Journal is now available! The journal is an open-access journal dealing with, well, the more techie aspects of libraries. Even if you aren’t into systems and web coding, you should still look this over. The … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Library 2.0, Open Access, Open Source, Periodicals, Publishing
Tagged API, Code4Lib Journal;, creative technical solutions, Integrated Library Systems, koha, Steven Weber, Tom Keays, USD, web coding
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Copyright Cost Trend
Three items have caught my eye this past week, and they all point in the same direction, even though they each are about something fairly specific: First was an article about a bill working its way through the Ohio General … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Education, Government, Libraries, Open Access, Politics, Publishing
Tagged file sharing, music subscription services, Ohio General Assembly, open access media, the Chronicle of Higher Education;
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Writing, and finding time
Writing at Five Miles per Hour is a post by the always interesting Karen G. Schneider. Reading it makes me feel as though I have been given a glimpse at a piece of my future. Let me explain: in writing, … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Publishing
Tagged energy, Karen G. Schneider
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Changes
Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t been posting as much over the past few weeks. This is likely to continue, for a couple of reasons: I am becoming more interested in posting less often, perhaps two or … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Books, Libraries, Library 2.0, Publishing
Tagged online-interactive-annotated-shared-bookmarks
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Digitized Book of the Week
Digitized Book of the Week is a blog from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign library. Each post has a link, along with sample images and descriptions, to books recently digitized within their collection. This week’s book : The Steel … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Books, History, Libraries, Publishing
Tagged Illinois, Steel Tubular Car Company, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign library
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Optimal Copyright Term Length
Forever Minus a Day? Some Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright (Pdf), a presentation by Rufus Pollock, examines the history of copyright terms and determines that the optimal term length is about 14 years (half of what the original copyright term was in both … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, History, Publishing
Tagged Rufus Pollock, United Kingdom, United States
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Something to think about
A post on the Freakonomics blog titled “If Public Libraries Didn’t Exist, Could You Start One Today?” contains some interesting parallels to some of today’s copyright/publishing concerns. from Librarian.net
Posted in Books, History, Libraries, Publishing
Tagged Librarian.net
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PLoS ONE goes 2.0
PLoS ONE, an open access publishing site created by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), has instituted a ratings system for articles published through them. By asking readers to rate every article they read for insight, reliability, and style, they … Continue reading
Posted in Library 2.0, Online Databases, Open Access, Publishing, Search
Tagged open access publishing site, PLoS ONE;, Public Library of Science, the Public Library of Science
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