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Yahoo Will Scan Books

By alex | Published: 10/3/2005
Google ran into a snag on their digitization project, but let’s see what a little bit of open content competition will do for the process. The New York Times is running an article on the Open Content Alliance. The interesting difference here is that the OCA is based on many hands making light work. Rather […]
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Dead Libraries

By alex | Published: 11/26/2003
Academic libraries are the walking dead. I just got booted out of ours at six, and it won’t be open tomorrow. They close early on Saturdays, too. Our library seems closed, of course, whenever I seem to need it. They even seem to turn off their servers many nights, for reasons that are entirely beyond […]
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Scholcom conference

By alex | Published: 10/3/2003
The web site for next month’s one-day scholarly communication conference is up. Looks like it will be fun. Here’s the blurb: PUBLISHING THE FUTURE: Scholarly Communication in an Information Age November 11, 2003 Academic publishing and scholarly communication more generally are undergoing a period of rapid change. Positive change comprises a wealth of Web based […]
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