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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Paying for Open Access Publication Charges: Guidance for Higher Education and Research Institutions, Publishers and Authors
The Research Information Network has released Paying for Open Access Publication Charges: Guidance for Higher Education and Research Institutions, Publishers and Authors
Here's an excerpt:
This document provides advice and guidance on the arrangements for paying open access publication fees: that is, fees levied by some journals for the publication of scholarly articles so that they can [...] Continue reading
Posted in Open Access, Publishing, Scholarly Journals, Uncategorized
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Library IT Jobs: Electronic Resources and Systems Librarian at Columbus State University
The Columbus State University Libraries are recruiting an Electronic Resources and Systems Librarian.
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
Columbus State University Libraries is seeking a knowledgeable, enthusiastic, service-oriented individual to serve as electronic resources and systems librarian. Duties focus on oversight of the libraries' computer technology environment and include providing advice, guidance and information on library [...] Continue reading
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RIN Briefing Note: Scholarly Books and Journals at Risk: Responding to the Challenges of a Changing Economy
The Research Information Network has released Scholarly Books and Journals at Risk: Responding to the Challenges of a Changing Economy
Here's an excerpt from the announcement:
The current economic difficulties across the globe bring serious risks to scholarly books and journals. In the UK, the recent dramatic fall in the value of sterling has seriously damaged university [...] Continue reading
DPE Briefing Paper: The Myths and Fallacies of Digital Photographs and Their Preservation
DigitalPreservationEurope has released The Myths and Fallacies of Digital Photographs and Their Preservation
Here's an excerpt:
Digital photographs offer fasciniating new possibilities and seem to be easier to store and preserve for the future than their analog counterpart, promising incredibly valuable, massive photo archives available at your fingertips. However, securely storing massive amounts of data, as well [...] Continue reading
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From today’s Guardian:
Consolidating its position at the cutting edge of new media technology,the Guardian today announces that it will become the first newspaper in the world to be published exclusively via Twitter, the sensationally popular social networking service that has transformed online communication.
The move, described as “epochal” by media commentators, will see all Guardian content tailored to fit [...]
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Posted in Internet, Uncategorized, print
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The Dream of an Instant Book
“I’m a reader, I have identified a book that I would like to read, and I want it now.”
Throughout most of the centuries that manuscripts have been set in type and bound into books, the sequence of thoughts expressed above would have framed an immense impossibility. Books were far away and difficult to find. In [...] Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, opinion
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Cory Doctorow: Authors Guild worrying about wrong thing
In a new column he has penned for the Guardian, Cory Doctorow suggests that the Authors Guild has “lost the plot” in their fight against the Kindle’s text-to-speech function.
After laying out why that function is not an infringement, or even if it is Amazon is the wrong one to complain about, Doctorow explains that [...] Continue reading
Strategies for digital publishing in a time of uncertainty
Picked this up from Bookfutures. Maybe one of our British readers can fill us in after the event.
Date/Time: 19 Apr 2009
13:00-18:00
Location: Earls Court One, Level 1, Cromwell Room
To book a place CLICK HERE
For American book publishers these are challenging times. The economic downturn is hitting hard an industry once thought by many to be [...] Continue reading
Posted in Paul Biba, Publishing, Uncategorized
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Is Microsoft meddling with the Google Book settlement?
Wired’s Epicenter blog seems to think they are. Steven Levy writes about how one of the law firms interested in filing an amicus curae (“friend of the court”) brief in the Authors Guild vs. Google case has received funding from Microsoft, and that its chief investigator is a former Microsoft employee. Levy points out [...] Continue reading
Posted in Chris Meadows, Google, Microsoft, Uncategorized
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Amazon needs to deal with DRM when the time is right, but fixing its publishing platform is a more immediate need
I don’t bring any special credibility to the table here at TeleRead. I’m a working author, a believer in the potential of and vision behind the Kindle both for readers and authors, and I have acquired a bit of expertise about Amazon’s underlying business strategies over a decade of writing about the company’s innovations and [...] Continue reading
Posted in Amazon Kindle, Stephen Windwalker, Uncategorized, amazon
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