Archive | Open Access

25 September 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Open Issue of OLA Quarterly

This came over one of my mailing lists and I thought I should share with you all this issue of the Oregon Library Association Quarterly which is full of articles about libraries and openness. The next issue of the OLA Quarterly is available for you to curl up with during rainy autumn days. You can [...]

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02 March 2010 ~ 2 Comments

Harvard Business School approves open-access policy

After coming from a conference where all of the publishers want to know how to make money if they give things away for free, it was nice to find this news item: Two years to the day after the Faculty of Arts and Sciences became the first school at Harvard to vote an open-access policy, [...]

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22 December 2008 ~ 4 Comments

Foolishly Optimistic

Sometimes when I talk to others I feel a bit foolish for being so optimistic – the thing is that I believe in libraries and librarians and always think that that others feel the same way I do. In the latest Library 2.0 Gang podcast, I deemed 2009 as the year of open. I honestly [...]

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02 September 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Open Access Day in October

October 14, 2008 will be the world’s first Open Access Day. The founding partners are SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), Students for FreeCulture, and the Public Library of Science. Open Access Day will help to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access, including recent mandates and emerging policies, within the international higher [...]

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07 August 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Free Book Covers from LibraryThing

Wow! LibraryThing is full of awesome announcements lately!! A few days ago, just before hitting thirty million books, we hit one million user-uploaded covers. So, we’ve decided to give them away—to libraries, to bookstores, to everyone. Learn how to get the covers and integrate them into your websites, opacs, etc. Technorati Tags: librarything

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14 March 2008 ~ 3 Comments

VALENJ: From Open Stacks to Open Source

This week I was lucky enough to attend an event at The College of New Jersey entitled Next Generation Academic Library System Symposium and hosted by VALE (Virtual Academic Library Environment of New Jersey). The goal of this day was for the members of VALE to decide if they wanted to join in on a [...]

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29 February 2008 ~ 5 Comments

Code4Lib 2008: Open Library

In his presentation, Building the Open Library, Aaron Swartz introduced us to his vision of an online library. In his vision, like Brewster’s, he sees a wiki with one page for every book. For this reason, the small group (6 people spread out around the world) is starting their project with monographs. To achieve this [...]

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27 February 2008 ~ 3 Comments

Code4Lib 2008: The Internet Archive

What a great way to open a conference like Code4Lib. The first keynote was presented by Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive. Brewster started by reminding us that the reason he was there talking to us and the reason he is working on the Internet Archive is because the library metaphor easily translates to the [...]

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30 June 2007 ~ 4 Comments

NFAIS – User-Generated Content – Nature Precedings

I want to preface this by saying I will probably never ever need to use this tool – but it was really awesome sounding so I wanted to share it with you all! Hilary Spencer from Nature came to talk at the NFAIS meeting about Nature Precedings and Nature Network. Nature Precedings allows scientists to [...]

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04 April 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Open Access Part Two

Looks like part two of the podcast I mentioned yesterday is just the questions & answers portion (which is included in part one as well). So, nothing else to report. Technorati Tags: open access

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