Category Archives: Other blogs
Publishers, Green OA & Institutional vs Subject Repositories
Back in November, I was among the many authors to receive an email from Emerald Group Publishing, touting the publisher’s “commitment to protecting your work,” and announcing their use of the Attributor service to track down “unauthorized copies” of “my” … Continue reading
Filed under copyright, funding, OA, Other blogs, publishing
Net neutrality & tiered pricing structures
It’s come to my attention that AWMarco at Team Awesome wrote about the recent Harpham and Greyson net neutrality articles in Feliciter (<– pdf warning) and seems to think that I conflate the issues of data packet neutrality and access … Continue reading
Filed under net neutrality, Other blogs, technology
Internet Linking is Analogous to Citation
Everyone with whom I have discussed the issue of Internet linking agrees that Internet hyperlinks are a form of citation. But the subset of the population with whom I discuss these issues is not representative of the entire world, clearly. … Continue reading
Filed under censorship, copyright, digitization, Intellectual freedom, Internet, IP, Other blogs, publishing
Academic librarians and research: a response
Before you read this post, go here and read Mark Rabnett’s blog post, ““For academic librarians what’s hard to reach is time for research.” I started leaving a comment there, but soon realised that my comment was likely to challenge the … Continue reading
Filed under academic libraries, Blogroll, Other blogs, publishing, The Profession
OLPC Give 1 Get 1 for 2008 launches Nov 17
Tipped off by the Digital Copyright Canada blog, I heard that the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is gearing up to launch another “Give 1 Get 1″ (G1G1) campaign. This is awesome, and I think I know a number … Continue reading
Filed under globalization, inclusion/exclusion, OSS, Other blogs, technology, youth
YouTube videos on CanWest info issues
I don’t have a television, but I do love to watch stuff on my computer. Back in the last millenium, when I did have a TV, I didn’t have cable anyway, so I am easily impressed with the amazing diversity … Continue reading
DOAJ: Continued Growth (plus a Creative Commons bonus)
Over at the Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, librarian Heather Morrison has been tracking the Dramatic Growth of Open Access over the past couple of years in a series of blog posts. On Friday, Morrison noted that the growth rate … Continue reading
Filed under copyright, IP, OA, Other blogs, publishing, tips and tools, Uncategorized
Free Speech and Patron Privacy are Corequisites for Intellectual Freedom
The book So you’ve probably heard about this library assistant (Sally Stern-Hamilton, aka Ann Miketa) in small-town Michigan (Luddington) who wrote a fiction book (“Library Diaries”) based upon her accounts of library patrons, and published it under her maiden surname … Continue reading
The Vancouver Sun parody & SLAPP
When I moved to Canada, I was shocked to learn that parody is not a specially protected form of speech here. It is in the US, and I like to think I made pretty good use of that principle over … Continue reading
Filed under censorship, Intellectual freedom, IP, media democracy, Other blogs, publishing
POPLINE kerfuffle follow-up
The good news of the day is that Michael J. Klag, MD, MPH, Dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has released a “Statement Regarding POPLINE Database.” In the statement he says he was just informed this … Continue reading
Filed under censorship, government, Health, Intellectual freedom, Other blogs, The Profession
