Issue 82: Personal Digital Library, Video Preservation, Selling Prayers, and Library Ebook Legislation
The People Have Spoken On a whim, last Thursday I put out a poll with the announcement of last week’s issu...
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Thursday Threads: Research Works Act, Amazon Kindle Give and Take, OCLC’s Website for Small Libraries
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> I've been away from DLTJ Thursday Thr...
Thursday Threads: Learn to Code in 2012, Issues with Apple’s iBooks Author, SOPA/PIPA Are Dead
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> The internet has survived the great S...
Stop SOPA and Protect-IP
This blog will be present first-time users with a warning page on January 18, 2012 -- the day that many internet sites are using to protest the Stop Online P...
Thursday Threads: Legal Implications of SOPA/PROTECT-IP, Learning from Best Buy, Open Source in Medicine
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads: by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner Welcome to the new year! Threads this week include a brief analysis o...
Campaign Contributions and Judiciary Committee Votes on SOPA (and a Plug for Rootstrikers)
I've been keeping an eye on the House Judiciary Committee markup session for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) that have happened over the past two days alon...
In Opposition to the PROTECT IP Act (Also)
Earlier this month there was an amazing groundswell of opposition to SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act. I participated in a 1-day anticensorship campaign d...
In Opposition to the Stop Online Privacy Act
This blog will be participating in the American Censorship Day awareness campaign on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 to show opposition to the Stop Online Pir...
Thursday Threads: So-called “Internet Kill-switch”, IP address exhaustion, demographics of P2P piracy
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads: by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner This week of DLTJ Thursday Threads covers a wide range of topics. Firs...
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 ...
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...
Flat World Knowledge and U.S. Gov’t on Open Access Course Materials
The sand is really starting to shift under the traditional textbook providers as the open course content movement shows signs of, well, movement. Already th...
Final Version of the Higher Education Reauthorization Act Leaves Textbook Provisions Intact
Earlier this week U.S. Senate passed its own version of the "College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007" (H.R.4137 to amend and extend the Higher Educ...
Textbook Disclosure Rules in U.S. House Bill
The Chronicle of Higher Education had an article today [subscription required] about legislation pending on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives th...
NIH Mandatory Open Access Provision Becomes Law
President George W. Bush signs into law H.R. 2764, the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2008, also known at the omnibus, making appropriations for the Departm...
Support Public Access to Research Funded by the National Institutes of Health
The blogosphere is abuzz with what would seem to be the final hurdle for open access to taxpayer funded research by the National Institutes of Health. Ove...