A Thread of Comments on the OLE Project Draft Report
Carl Grant, president of Ex Libris North America, posted a pair of messages on his corporate blog that it is worth calling attention to regarding the OLE Pro...
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Federal Textbook Disclosure Rules Now Law
The fact that the Higher Education Opportunity Act (Public Law 110-315) -- otherwise known as HEOA -- was signed into law last year is probably not big news ...
Google’s Watching What We’re Doing – At Least In Aggregate
An interesting thing happened at my place of work (OhioLINK) today. We recently added links to our central catalog pointing to manifestations in Google Book...
Proposals for NISO Work Items: Physical Delivery Best Practices and Standardized Markup for Journal Articles
NISO voting members are currently considering two new work items: a statement of best practices for the physical delivery of library resources and formalizi...
Analysis of PubGet – An Expedited Fulltext Service for Life Science Journal Articles
In June, a new service that speeds access to life sciences literature reached a milestone. Called PubGet, it is a service that reduces the number of clicks ...
Open Library Environment Final Report Draft Released
Over the weekend, the folks at Duke University coordinating the development of the OLE Project Design Final Report released a draft for public comment. Weig...
Shared Twitter Updates Done Right: The Case of NPRTechTeam
[caption id="attachment_1198" align="alignright" width="437" caption="Image capture of NPR Tech Team Twitter account."][/caption]All day today, the staff at ...
OhioLINK Has Moved!
My place of work has moved to office space in downtown Columbus. If you have saved contact information for me, please update it. Those connected to me via ...
On the Pitfalls of Social Media: Learning from Clinical Reader
As a youth I remember intently studying the troubles of others -- what they did when they got into trouble and how they got out of it. If the saying "You Le...
On the Pitfalls of Social Media: The Case of Clinical Reader
As libraries feel the need to join the social media landscape to meet a segment of their user population already there, it is useful to step back and get acc...
Federal Research Public Access Act Reintroduced
New legislation was introduced in the U.S. Senate last week to support the publication of federally-sponsored research results under open access terms. Sp...
Google Book Search Privacy, Orphan Works, and Monopoly
A few weeks ago, a reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Education interviewed Adam Smith, Google's director of product management, about the Google Book Searc...