Author Archives: Charles Bailey

Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography is now available as an XHTML website with live links to many included works. All versions of the bibliography are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. OA XHTML: http://digital-scholarship.org/tsp/w/tsp.html OA PDF: http://digital-scholarship.org/tsp/transforming.pdf Low-Cost Paperback: http://digital-scholarship.org/tsp/transforming.htm This bibliography presents over 1,100 selected English-language scholarly [...] Continue reading →

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Update on September 2010 Activities [HathiTrust] http://icio.us/fa4nnw # OCLC Research Semi-Annual Highlights of Progress in Support of the RLG Partnership: April-September 2010 http://icio.us/laku1o # What's New – Issue 30, October 2010 [Digital Preservation Coalition] http://icio.us/vfypmn # Beware of Copyright Infringement When Recording Sound Effects http://icio.us/ghxpsa # A Look into the Revised NSF Data Sharing Policy [...] Continue reading →

French National Library to Open Archives to Microsoft Bing http://icio.us/sylevf # But What FORMAT Are You STORING in That Thing? http://icio.us/mfakce # Electronic Resources Librarian [Clemson University] http://icio.us/xdmsf2 # Institutional Repository Manager [University of the Arts London, 6 months] http://icio.us/xasmns # Curation Services Officer [Digital Curation Centre, University of Edinburgh] http://icio.us/dsn5wd # WorldCat Knowledge Base [...] Continue reading →

The High-Level Group on Scientific Data has released Riding the Wave—How Europe Can Gain from the Rising Tide of Scientific Data. Here's an excerpt: A fundamental characteristic of our age is the rising tide of data — global, diverse, valuable and complex. In the realm of science, this is both an opportunity and a challenge. [...] Continue reading →

David S. H. Rosenthal has published "Keeping Bits Safe: How Hard Can It Be?" in ACM Queue. Here's an excerpt: There is an obvious question we should be asking: how many copies in storage systems with what reliability do we need to get a given probability that the data will be recovered when we need [...] Continue reading →

The Scholarly Communication Institute at the University of Virginia has released Scholarly Communication Institute 8: Emerging Genres in Scholarly Communication. Here's an excerpt: The following essay attempts to represent and synthesize the rich discussions of SCI 8, the eighth gathering of the Scholarly Communication Institute at the University of Virginia Library, especially the many original [...] Continue reading →

The Office of the United States Trade Representative has released the text of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Here's an excerpt from the press release: After three years, and ten rounds of negotiations, the ACTA parties decided the time was right to conclude their discussions. The United States helped lay the foundation for the progress [...] Continue reading →

Mellon Digital Initiatives Interface Specialist [Five Colleges of Ohio , 2-year, half-time] http://icio.us/nb5nqf # Assistant Applications Developer [Caltech, Temporary Part-Time] http://icio.us/psmjyj # Metadata and Cataloging Services Librarians (2) Florida International University http://icio.us/ehephm # Is Interactive Open Access Publishing Able to Identify High-Impact Submissions? http://icio.us/vyeeu3 # Open Access to Nobel Physicists’ Articles through arXiv http://icio.us/vn0gtg # [...] Continue reading →