ODCE 2008 Call-For-Proposals
Where can faculty, administrators, librarians and technology gurus all meet to discuss learning, libraries, technology and the convergence of these activitie...
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More on Commercial Versus Not-For-Profit Open Access Publishing
DLTJ featured a discussion last month on what I saw as the outcomes of "clashing values" between the interest of businesses and that of not-for-profit higher...
HTML Template of a TRAC:CC Report
Just in case this might be useful to others, I've created a report template based on the "Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification: Criteria Checkl...
Analysis of Google Scholar and Google Books
Two papers were published recently exploring the quality of Google Scholar and Google Books. Google Scholar Philipp Mayr and Anne-Kathrin Walter, both of GE...
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog. But we can tell if you are a major news organization or corporation.
Published in The New Yorker July 5, 1993.Image from The Cartoon Bank As the saying, now a part of Internet lore, goes: "On the Internet, nobody knows you're...
Survey on Library Automation Trends
Marshall Breeding, editor of Library Technology Guides homepage, is conducting a survey on the trends in library automation. He describes the survey in a we...
Aligning Clashing Values
This started out as a comment to a posting by Chris Coppola, president and co-founder of rSmart Group. The comment got longer and threaded with yesterday's ...
What Is BioMed Central?
My posting on Friday about the clashing values of academic institutions and businesses prompted a comment from Bill Hooker about linking to his blog posting ...
Educational Patents, Open Access Journals, and Clashing Values
This posting has two goals -- first, to introduce DLTJ readers to the notion of "Educational Patents" or "edupatents" and provide an update on events of this...
PocketModMac: MacOSX PocketMod Generator Via Print Dialog
This one goes out to all of the MacOS X users out there. (For the rest of you, why aren't you switching?) Perhaps you have seen PocketMod -- the origami-li...
Gentoo Abandons WordPress in Portage
I don't think this has been widely announced, but while waiting for an update to Gentoo's portage entry for WordPress to cover the latest security and bug fi...
NPR’s Headquarters
NPR's Headquarters, looking east Side view of the triangular building, looking from Mt. Vernon Square. The DC Convention Center is just to the north of ...