Multi-Purpose Librarian
Posted in Copyright, Publishing on Feb 5th, 2009
I was disappointed to learn yesterday that Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) reintroduced the “Fair Copyright in Research Works” Act despite the fact that it is neither fair nor supportive of research. As Paul Courant put it in his blog post about it the first time around, “the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act is a [...]
Posted in Libraries, Publishing on Nov 24th, 2008
I’m coming late to the OCLC WorldCat records policy conversation, but that gives me the advantage of having digested some of the discussion that’s already happened. There’s a little bibliography at the end of this post that points to many of the comments I read and considered.
Peter Suber Gavin Baker summarized the issue nicely:
There’s been [...]
Posted in Open Access, Publishing on Jul 15th, 2008
The title about sums it up. The American Psychological Association’s policy for complying with the NIH Public Access policy is godawful.
Here are the details, from the Digital Koans blog:
The American Psychological Association’s “Document Deposit Policy and Procedures for APA Journals” outlines its policies and procedures regarding the requirements of the NIH Public Access Policy. [...]
Posted in Collected Stories, Creative Commons Evangelism, Libraries, Publishing on Jun 13th, 2008
I just got back from a week of vacation, followed by a week of post-vacation crunch, so here’s a small assortment of things I would have blogged about sooner, but didn’t.
Paul Krugman says it better In a column titled Bits, Bands, and Books: Paying for Creativity in a Digital World, Paul Krugman describes the impact [...]
Posted in Public domain, Publishing on May 6th, 2008
My library’s IT department bought a Kindle for staff to experiment with, and I checked it out for the week. Using it has been an interesting experience.
When it first came out I read a lot of commentating and criticism about the Kindle as a publishing model, but I hadn’t really paid much attention to the [...]
