Scholarly Publishing

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• Bestselling Author, Ursula K. Leguin, Resigns from Authors Guild Over Google Issues

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 633
  From the Lead Paragraph: Bestselling and award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin, whose membership in the Authors Guild dates back to 1972, has resigned from the organization, citing her unhappiness with the role the Guild played in the Google Book settlement. “You decided to deal with the devil, as it were, and ...
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• Journal scam

  
  Information Research - ideas and debate — Authority: 111
  The OA movement has unleashed some... curiosities is perhaps the safest word :-) upon the scholarly publishing scene. But the oddest must be the publisher discovered by Improbable Research , which found that a journal called Psychology had a first issue which consisted of four papers that had already been published ...
  3 days ago

• The December, 2009 Issue of SPARC enews is Now Available

  
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  Access the Issue Numerous stories including: + SPARC-ACRL forum to examine open-access monographs + PLoS launches new OA store + eIFL’s November-December newsletter + BMJ, Oxford join OASPA + Study on submission fees for OA journals + Interview on the German OA petition Source: SPARC ...
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• The textbook world is getting flat

  
  Scholarly Communications @ Duke — Authority: 111
  Earlier this month I was able, thanks to the organizing efforts of a colleague, to participate in a phone call with Jeff Shelstad, one of the founders of Flat World Knowledge .  I wrote about Flat World some time ago, but I want to take the opportunity (before it fades in my mind) to describe their business in more ...
  3 days ago

• The December, 2009 Issue of E-News for ARL Directors is Now Online

  
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  The issue contains 28 items. Here are a Few of Them: 4- Nobel Prize–Winning Scientists Urge Congress to Ensure Free Online Access to Federally Funded Research 6- Obama Speaks in China on Freedom of Expression & Open Internet 7- FCC Hosts Workshop on Free Speech & Open Internet; Video Online 11- ...
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• Open Data Will Be All the Rage in 2010

  
  Health Content Advisors — Authority: 111
  Despite a dismal year for the media industry, there is one major trend we can all look forward to in 2010: Open Data. Open data is more than a trend; it represents a shift in worldview about using research, business intelligence, and outcomes data. Tim Berners-Lee’s talk at TED in early 2009 promoted the power ...
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• Coalition for Networked Information Conversations Podcast (Dec. 2009) Now Online

  
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  The December, 2009 podcast is now available. The Dec. 2009 session of CNI Conversations featured a recap of the recent CNI Membership Meeting by Executive Director Clifford Lynch and Associate Director Joan Lippincott. Cliff also discussed the 5th International Digital Curation Conference, as well as the ...
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• CALL: Open Repositories 2010 in Madrid

  
  DuraSpace Blog — Authority: 468
  From the Program Committee of the Fifth International Conference on Open Repositories 2010 ( http://or2010.fecyt.es/publico/Home/index.aspx ) Madrid, Spain Repositories have been successfully established — within and across institutions — as a major source of digital information in a variety of environments ...
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• Tales of a Sydney Summer Evening

  
  Net Traveller — Authority: 139
  The NSW Writers Centre was the venue for the filmmakers of Sydney to assemble for Christmas drinks last Friday night. Somehow I received an invitation as one of the Twiteraity. The centre is located in the grounds of the former Rozelle Hospital, is a sandstone building. There are beautiful grounds with flowering ...
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• CALL: European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL)

  
  DuraSpace Blog — Authority: 468
  Glasgow, UK The European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) is the leading European scientific forum on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues, bringing together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field. ECDL 2010, the 14th conference in this series, ...
  5 days ago

• The White House Wants to Know: Features & Technologies Needed to Implement OA

  
  DuraSpace Blog — Authority: 468
  By Heather Joseph, Executive Director, and Jennifer McLennan Director of Communications, SPARC Washington, DC The White House needs to hear from you! As part of the Request for Information issued two weeks ago, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is inviting your contributions to an online discussion ...
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• Go Get It: Fedora 3.3 Available Now!

  
  DuraSpace Blog — Authority: 468
  Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA   Today, the DuraSpace not-for-profit organization and the Fedora digital repository project announced the release of Fedora 3.3. This release marks a new milestone in the process of developing the Fedora open source software. For the first time, the Fedora community came together under the ...
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• Contribution to the OSTP Policy Forum

  
  Be openly accessible or be obscure — Authority: 106
  Today (December 20) is the last day for contributions to the first phase of the Public Access Forum, sponsored by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP): Policy Forum on Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Implementation . The next phase, to begin on Dec. 21, is described at: Public ...
  6 days ago

• Unusual Collection of Full-Text Working Papers — American Association of Wine Economists

  
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  Working Papers — American Association of Wine Economists The American Association of Wine Economists (AAWE) is a non-profit, educational organization dedicated to encouraging and communicating economic research and analyses and exchanging ideas in wine economics. The Association’s principal activities include ...
  1 week ago

• Columbia University Libraries Joins HathiTrust

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 633
  From the Announcement: From the Announcement: The Columbia University Libraries has become the newest member of HathiTrust (www.hathitrust.org), a shared repository for the digitized content from academic and research libraries. The Libraries plans to contribute public domain volumes digitized through its ...
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• Knovel Partners with More Scholarly Publishers

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 633
  From the Announcement: Knovel, an online resource that helps engineers find reliable technical information faster, today announces partnerships with 16 organizations. Knovel works with its Editorial Advisory Board, comprised of multi-disciplinary industry and academic leaders, to prioritize content additions and ...
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• Participate in an Open Dialog in Ontology

  
  DuraSpace Blog — Authority: 468
  San Mateo, CA There are 10,000 public ontologies available to help make meaning around disciplinary concepts in almost every field. If you would like to learn more about semantics as they relate to the structure of your digital information you may want to participate in an open dialog in Ontology at the Ontolog Forum ...
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• Report: Overcoming barriers: access to research information

  
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  From the Summary: The report’s key fnding is that access is still a major concern for researchers. Although researchers report having no problems fnding content in this age of electronic information, gaining access is another matter due to the complexity of licensing arrangements, restrictions placed on ...
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• American Public University System Becomes One of the First For-Profit Online Universities to Join JSTOR

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 633
  From the Announcement: American Public University System (APUS) now has access to the complete backfiles of 278 leading scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and general sciences by becoming a member of JSTOR. JSTOR was founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship. APUS, an online ...
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• REMINDER-TOMORROW: DuraCloud Pilot Program Web Seminar

  
  DuraSpace Blog — Authority: 468
  Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA The DuraSpace™ organization is conducting a pilot program to test a new cloud-based service, DuraCloud ™—a hosted service and open technology developed by DuraSpace, that makes it easy for organizations and end users to use commercial cloud services. DuraCloud™ leverages existing cloud ...
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