Monthly Archives: November 2009

Chris Armbruster and Laurent Romary have self-archived "Comparing Repository Types: Challenges and Barriers for Subject-Based Repositories, Research Repositories, National Repository Systems and Institutional Repositories in Serving Scholarly Communication" in SSRN.
Here's an excerpt:

Four types of publication repository may be distinguished, namely the subject-based repository, research repository, national repository system and institutional repository.
Two important shifts in the [...] Continue reading →

Cornell's DigitalCommons@ILR repository, which serves the ILR School (also known as the School of Industrial and Labor Relations), has had nearly two million downloads and contains close to 10,000 documents.
Here's an excerpt from the press release:

Featuring the scholarship of ILR faculty and researchers, DigitalCommons@ILR also contains workplace-related collections selected by Catherwood staff. Collection items include [...] Continue reading →

Presentations and other materials from the DSpace User Group Meeting 2009 are now available.
Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

Over 90 participants from 20 different countries attended the fall DSUG 2009 meeting. In addition to the European community, DSpace users from the United States, Brazil, New Zealand and Singapore were in attendance. Copies of the presentations [...] Continue reading →

CMAJ, which has been an open access journal since 1995, will cease being so in January 2010, when some content will be restricted to subscribers.
Here's an excerpt from the "No Longer Free for All":

The harsh economic reality is that CMAJ, like many others in the publishing industry, has experienced a considerable decline in advertising revenue [...] Continue reading →

Poet and UC Press author Richard O. Moore will read from his forthcoming collection, Writing the Silences, at noon this Thursday, December 3, as part of the Lunch Poems Noontime Poetry Reading Series at UC Berkeley’s Morrison Library. Richard Moore… Continue reading →

Site may not be done for a millisecond. Everything is under control (unless you see this message for an inordinately long time!). I’ll remove this message when I’m done.
For the lucky few who will see this 2 minute message,  see this interview IOZ had with Malcolm Gladwell. You’ll be glad you did.
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Got an email from Neil Levin about his new site – EverPub. It is initially aimed at indie and self-publishers, it could be applicable to major publishers as well.
For an initial fee of $295 for two years, the author gets an optimized book/author website page that brings together all the sales, marketing and [...] Continue reading →

Hoy se ha hecho público el ganador del Premio Cervantes de este año. El galardonado ha sido José Emilio Pacheco, escritor mexicano. El premio goza de prestigio a nivel mundial, y además está dotado con la nada despreciable cantidad de ciento veinticinco mil euros. Ahí es nada…

El mexicano ya estuvo hace poco en Madrid, cuando le entregaron el XVIII Premio Reina Sofía de Poesía Iberoamericana. Tanto la ministra de Cultura, Ángeles González-Sinde, como el presidente del Jurado y representante de la Real Academia Española, José Antonio Pascual, se han deshecho en elogios sobre el escritor, tildándole como ‘un poeta excepcional de la vida cotidiana’.

José Emilio Pacheco nació en Ciudad de México en 1939, y es un escritor más que prolífico, destacando también como traductor, profesor universitario o editor. Entre sus obras poéticas destacan títulos como Los elementos de la noche, El reposo del fuego, No me preguntes cómo pasa el tiempo o Irás y no volverás. El mexicano ha recibido la noticia mientras estaba en Guadalajara y se ha mostrado muy contento, afirmando que este galardón es para ‘toda la literatura mexicana’.

Por lo pronto, se pretende que pronto se publique en España su obra Tarde o temprano, una recopilación de sus mejores versos desde el año 1958 al 2000, publicada por el Fondo de Cultura Económica. No será el único que se publique, desde luego, ya que la entrega de premios de esta envergadura suele activar la reedición de textos de los premiados. Desde aquí nos sumamos a la enhorabuena y que lo disfrute con salud.

Vía | Europa Press
En Papel en Blanco | José Emilio Pacheco gana el Premio Reina Sofía de Poesía

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Though Rupert Murdoch’s decision to move newspaper content behind a paywall is the most publicized decision of its kind, it is not the only one. In an Op Ed in British paper The Guardian, journalism professor Tim Luckhurst (left) writes that “Johnston Press, Britain’s most prolific newspaper publisher with 286 [...] Continue reading →