Electronic journal access found to reduce breadth of citations

Blog  |  libraryjuicepress.com | 5 hours 20 minutes ago

Noting an article of interest:Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and ScholarshipScience 18 July 2008:Vol. 321. no. 5887, pp. 395 - 399DOI: 10.1126/science.1150473James Evans finds that scholars access to online journals tends to reduce the breadth of the

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American Library Association Unveils Slide Rule for Copyright Advice

Blog  |  vla.org | 8 hours 8 minutes ago

For those who doubt the complexity of U.S. copyright law take a look at this online slide-rule from the American Library Association’s Office for Information Technology Policy. It’s designed to help librarians and others figure out if a creative work is copyright protected. The exceptions to the

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Copyright and digital preservation

Blog  |  www.elearningservice.com | Jul 17, 2008

A study released by a Library of Congress digital information program reviewed the impact of various laws on digital preservation of copyrighted works, reports Library Journal.  Proposals were offered for legislative reform, as well as suggestions for non-legislative solutions.Suggestions

http://www.elearningservice.com/blog/2008/07/17/copyright-and-digital-preservation/

Science Fiction and Fantasy: Looking at Information Technology and the Information Rights of the Individual

Blog  |  litablog.org | Jul 16, 2008

Science Fiction and Fantasy: Looking at Information Technology and the Information Rights ofthe Individual, Saturday, 28 June 2008, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in the Anaheim Convention Center, 304 A/B, Anaheim, CA (Disneyland)Distinguished science fiction and fantasy authors discussed their ideas about old

http://litablog.org/2008/07/15/science-fiction-and-fantasy-looking-at-information-technology-and-the-information-rights-of-the-individual/

CAUTION: THIS MAY BE HABIT-FORMING! WORDLE

Blog  |  opls.blogspot.com | Jul 12, 2008

If you want to have fun, try out Wordle, a neat free software program to make word clouds*. You can input any text or an RSS feed from your website, a blog, or anything else. Once the cloud is made, you can edit it to change color, format (horizontal, vertical, rounded, etc.), language, and other

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Countdown to AALL 2008

Blog  |  www.jasoneiseman.com | Jul 8, 2008

This weekend the AALL 2008 annual meeting starts in Portland. Word is there will be about 2,000 attendees, and this will be one of the best attended AALL conferences in recent years. I look forward to meeting many law librarians, vendors, and other visitors. If you see me skulking around the

http://www.jasoneiseman.com/blog/?p=253

Fair Use for Online Video

Blog  |  mlcnet.org | Jul 8, 2008

The Center for Social Media, American University School of Communication, has published a Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video. Click here to download full report in PDF.The Code was developed by a committee of copyright scholars under the chairmanship of Peter Jaszi and Patricia

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Caine Prize for African Writing 2008 winner

Blog  |  blogs.uct.ac.za | Jul 8, 2008

This years Caine Prize for African Writing has been won by Henrietta Rose-Innes from South Africa, with her story Poison from Africa Pens, published by ...

http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/celias/2008/07/08/caine-prize-for-african-writing-2008-winner

Fair Use Synchronicity

Blog  |  scanblog.blogspot.com | Jul 8, 2008

Some days, it just works like this: in the last 24 hours, two interesting pieces on what constitutes fair use have crossed my desktop. Andy Havens, that inexhaustible fountain of interesting online information, shot me this web site from the Center for Social Media at American University.

http://scanblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/synchronicity.html

ALA: the Long and Short of It

Blog  |  www.hbook.com | Jul 6, 2008

I've been the editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc, since 1996; previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. Received my M.A. in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a B.A. from Pitzer College in 1978.

http://www.hbook.com/blog/2008/07/ala-long-and-short-of-it.html

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