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Today's Fresh Blogs...| SSRN Deposits as Vehicles for Google Ads |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 3:56 am |
| Tags: Digital Collections |
| On Brian Leiter's Law School Reports Connecticut labor law prof Michael Fischl writes:I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry at the experience I am having with SSRN, but I thought it would interest you and perhaps other legal academics... |
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| Bepress to Acquire Digital Commons |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 12:15 pm |
| Tags: Digital Collections, News, Products Services |
| From the press release:Berkeley, CA - August 10, 2007 - ProQuest and The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) today announced that they have reached an agreement for bepress to purchase ownership of Digital Commons, the world's leading hosted institutional repository solution.... |
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| HeinOnline's U.S. Congressional Documents Collection |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 3:44 am |
| Tags: Digital Collections |
| New from HeinOnline:For the first time in an online environment, HeinOnline is providing complete online access to the bound and daily Congressional Record, its three predecessor titles, and other important Congressional material. The entire U.S. Congressional Documents Collection is the... |
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| Rescuing GPO Digital Publications from Format Obsolescence |
| Published: August 16, 2007, 3:45 am |
| Tags: Digital Collections, Gov Docs, Information Technology |
| In the July/August 2007 issue of D-Lib Magazine, Gretchen Gano and Julie Linden describe a Yale Library data migration project as a means for analyzing and documenting aspects of a CD-ROM migration approach, but also as a launching pad for... |
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| Open Access Repositories in China |
| Published: September 12, 2007, 3:51 am |
| Tags: Digital Collections |
| Check out ShuYong Jiang's very interesting Open Mind, Open Access. Here's the abstract: Open access is a modern notion of resource sharing in the technology era. It began as a bold reaction of the academic community to the rapidly increased... |
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| Sustained Deposits as Key to Successful Repository |
| Published: September 19, 2007, 3:49 am |
| Tags: Digital Collections |
| In Size Isn't Everything: Sustainable Repositories as Evidenced by Sustainable Deposit Profiles, Leslie Carr and Tim Brody conclude that "the key to a successful repository is sustained deposits, and the key to sustained deposits is community engagement." From the abstract:This... |
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| CLIR Seeks Public Comment Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization |
| Published: September 27, 2007, 3:43 am |
| Tags: Digital Collections |
| The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) seeks public comment on a white paper examining preservation issues relevant to large-scale digitization projects such as those being done by Google, Microsoft, and the Open Content Alliance. The paper, Preservation in... |
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| The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project |
| Published: October 10, 2007, 3:40 am |
| Tags: Digital Collections, Legal Research |
| From the site: "The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for 212 countries and territories over the period 1996 2006, for six dimensions of governance: Voice and Accountability Political Stability and Absence of Violence Government Effectiveness... |
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| Supreme Court Oral Arguments for 2006-07 Term |
| Published: October 15, 2007, 3:36 am |
| Tags: Digital Collections, Legal Research |
| Recordings of all oral arguments and opinion announcements for the 2006 Term were made available by the Oyez Project. [RJ] |
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| Libraries, Google, and Microsoft... Oh My! |
| Published: October 22, 2007, 10:43 am |
| Tags: Digital Collections |
| The New York Times reports today on libraries that are rejecting Google and Microsoft offers to scan their books, opting instead for the Open Content Alliance. The story itself is interesting, though the title is misleading: "Libraries Shun Deals to... |
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| HeinOnline's New Foreign Relations Library |
| Published: October 23, 2007, 3:46 am |
| Tags: Digital Collections, Legal Research |
| New from HeinOnline: "The Foreign Relations of the United States series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. The series, produced by the State Department's Office of the Historian, comprises more... |
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| World Freedom Atlas |
| Published: October 25, 2007, 3:44 am |
| Tags: Digital Collections, Information Technology |
| From the site: "The World Freedom Atlas is a geovisualization tool for world statistics. it was designed for social scientists, journalists, NGO/IGO workers & others who wish to have a better understanding of issues of freedom, democracy, human rights &... |
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| Experience "Turning the Pages" at the British Library Online |
| Published: October 27, 2007, 3:43 am |
| Tags: Digital Collections |
| From the American Historical Association: The British Library is reaching out to readers online by allowing them to digitally "leaf through our great books" on their Turning the Pages page. Through the use of Adobe's Shockwave player, visitors can interactively... |
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| More on Major Digitization Projects |
| Published: November 1, 2007, 9:18 am |
| Tags: Digital Collections |
| Very interesting article in the New Yorker this month on digitization projects, the history of books, and the future of research. Advocating a mixed method approach. Also briefly touches upon the disparities in information wealth between countries as measured by... |
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| Is SSRN Listening? |
| Published: November 8, 2007, 3:44 am |
| Tags: Digital Collections |
| Dan Solove and Stephen Bainbridge have been posting their wish list of SSRN improvements. Check out Solove's Improving SSRN and Bainbridge's Fixing SSRN. [JH] |
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