An issue that librarians are increasingly grappling with is DRM. It has been with us for many years (I remember floppy discs being copy-protected in the 80s) but recently technical protection measures have increased, impacting what and how we lend from libraries.
There’a lot of blogs looking at examples of DRM in libraries (for example check […]
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Librarians and DRM
Published by October 10th, 2007 in General, Open Access, Technology and DRM. 2 CommentsVia the always exceptional Open Access News, comes this inspiring post from Co-Action on why women should embrace Open Access. Here’s an excerpt:
SOLIDARITY WITH DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Virtual networking is especially important for women researchers from developing countries and countries in transition. This is good news for all women! By publishing in Open Access journals or depositing […]
Via Open Access News, the wonderful news that there are now four OA mandates in Australia:
NHMRC
ARC OA Policy (from eprints)
Queensland University of Technology
University of Tasmania School of Computing
The first two, from two of the largest grant and research administration bodies in Australia, are significant.
Although not mandated, papers from ALIA conferences are recommended to be deposited […]
Google Co-op search for LIS research
Published by October 27th, 2006 in Research/Writing and Open Access. 1 CommentI’ve created a Google Co-op search for LIS Research, which is also linked at the LISauthor wiki. Try it out, let me know if you like it, and if you have other sites to suggest. It is currently set to search:
worldcat.org
ibiblio.org
llrx.com
dlib.org
ariadne.ac.uk
firstmonday.org
libraryjournal.com
cla.ca
cilip.org.uk
alia.org.au
ala.org
ifla.org
libraryresearch.com
vtls.com/ndltd
zippo.vtls.com/cgi-bin/ndltd/chameleon
adt.caul.edu.au
eprints.rclis.org
e-prints.alia.org.au
dlist.sir.arizona.edu
scholar.google.com
The aim is to capture popular online journals, eprints, articles, theses and presentations archived on […]
New venture to keep an eye on
Published by October 16th, 2006 in Research/Writing and Open Access. 0 CommentsOA librarian hints at a new project that sounds fascinating:
“I’ve been thinking of starting a new blog as a step beyond informing other librarians about open access. Don’t know what I’d call it but I’d like it to be a completely new idea about librarians’ direct involvement in publishing.”
The role of librarians in publishing is […]
New stuff at LISauthor
Published by October 6th, 2006 in Research/Writing and Open Access. 0 CommentsI’ve recently added lots of new content to the LISauthor wiki. If you have something to contribute, please consider signing up, content on any of the areas and more listed on the main page is welcome. Regular visitors can see what’s new by visiting recent changes.
One section I’ll be working on heavily over the next few […]
Portugal, on how I came to travel there
Published by June 7th, 2006 in Library technology, Conferences, Travel, Research/Writing and Open Access. 1 CommentAs I mentioned last week, a couple of weeks ago I travelled to the city of Porto in Portugal to attend the 27th Annual IATUL conference. This trip was made possible as I was awarded the first Tony Evans Travel Grant for young librarians, and also thanks to the very generous support of my employer. […]
Open access reading and writing
Published by April 30th, 2006 in Research/Writing, Open Access, Commons and Copyright. 0 CommentsI just finished reading The Access Principle (Willinsky, 2006) which I would recommend to librarians looking for an introduction to Open Access as a whole (those who read around this subject widely probably won’t find too much new here). Willinsky defines the access principle as:
“commitment to the value and quality of research carries withit a […]
Announcing: LISauthor wiki
Published by April 10th, 2006 in General, Library technology, Research/Writing, Open Access and Australia. 3 CommentsHere’s hoping the ’sphere can cope with one more wiki: LISauthor. The LISauthor wiki is something that has resulted from a few projects I have been involved with over the past year and a half. It started as a personal project for me to conceptualise my thoughts on eScholarship, libraries/librarians as publishers, and connecting readers […]
More on the Creative Commons
Published by August 3rd, 2005 in Open Access, Open Source and Commons. 1 CommentI’ve been reading a lot of articles lately debating the merits of FOSS, Creative Commons and Open Access. There are some perspectives I agree with, and others I disagree with. But all of them have given me pause to consider my own position. Towards a Standard of Freedom: Creative Commons and the Free Software […]
