by jzilm | Jan 11, 2012 | Author rights, Copyright & copyright policy, Events
Dr. Kenneth Crews, Director of the Copyright Advisory Office at Columbia University gives an oversview of issues and strategies for getting better agreements that respect your scholarly works in this video available via YouTube.
by wordpres_admin | Jul 7, 2011 | Open access, Publishing
Creative Commons has released The Power of Open – available for download or purchase.
by jzilm | Apr 13, 2011 | News, Publishing & research impact
Jennifer Howard | The Chronicle | April 12, 2011 In Electric Discovery, Scholar Finds Trove of Walt Whitman Documents in National Archives A huge collection of government documents handwritten by Walt Whitman when the poet was a federal clerk has been unearthed. The...
by jzilm | Mar 15, 2011 | News, Publishing
BBC | Alex Hudson | March 12, 2011 Publishers stand accused of “nonsensical” policies on e-book lending to libraries. So, with nearly $1bn spent on e-books last year in the US alone, what does this mean for the institutions already at risk of closure? When...
by jzilm | Mar 9, 2011 | News, Publishing
Library Journal | Josh Hadro | Feb 25, 2011 “In the first significant revision to lending terms for ebook circulation, HarperCollins has announced that new titles licensed from library ebook vendors will be able to circulate only 26 times before the license...
by jzilm | Feb 28, 2011 | News, Open access, Publishing
Open Up! Sparky Awards 2011 http://www.sparkyawards.org/ DEADLINE: May 26, 2011 SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) is organizing an international short video contest for college/university students: Students are invited to make a two-minute...
