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Peter E. Murray

Library technologist, open source advocate, striving to think globally while acting locally

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  • Open Access Attitudes of Computer Science Professors

    My Communications of the ACM came in the main recently, and in an article about the future of scholarly publishing in computer science (in general -- and what the ACM Publications Board is thinking about doing), there was this paragraph about the attitudes of a subset of ACM members towards open …

     Posted on  April 16, 2015
     and last updated April 16, 2015
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • Libraries as Provisioner, Quartermaster, and Curator

    Yesterday I heard Catherine Murray-Rust give a keynote at the Georgia Knowledge Repository workshop. She used the phrase, and I think I transcribed this correctly, "provisioning of knowledge" when describing the activities that institutional repositories can do. That phrase reminded me about a recent discussion on a mailing list (I …

     Posted on  August 10, 2012
     and last updated August 10, 2012
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • My ALA Anaheim 2012 Schedule

    It is that time of year again where representatives from the library profession all gather for the annual Annual Library Association meeting. This year it is in Anaheim, California on June 21–26. And as the pace of technology continues to push libraries into new areas of content and service …

     Posted on  June 11, 2012
     and last updated June 12, 2012
     ·  9 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Research Works Act, Amazon Kindle Give and Take, OCLC's Website for Small Libraries

    I've been away from DLTJ Thursday Threads for a while, but that doesn't mean the fun hasn't stopped. This week there are stories about the beginning and the end of the Research Works Act (again, one might add), Amazon's continuing shifts in the ebook marketplace, and an announcement of beta …

     Posted on  February 29, 2012
     and last updated March 01, 2012
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: SOPA, PROTECT-IP, Research Works Act, and Broad E-Textbook Pilot

     Posted on  January 19, 2012
     and last updated January 19, 2012
  • Slidecast of David Lewis' "Collections Futures" Talk

    At the 2010 Annual RLG Partnership Meeting, David Lewis (Dean of the IUPUI University Library) gave a talk entitled "Collections Futures". I've followed David's ideas since we crossed paths a few years ago; his ideas on applying Clayton Christensen's disruptive innovation theories to libraries ring true to me. This presentation …

     Posted on  March 02, 2011
     and last updated March 02, 2011
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Digital Reference Librarians, First Sale Danger, Open Access, Data Modeling

    When I say "<blank> is a question answering system. A question can be posed in natural language and ... <blank> can come up with a very precise answer to that question" -- what comes to mind to fill in the <blank>? If you guessed a system developed by IBM to appear alongside …

     Posted on  December 23, 2010
     and last updated December 23, 2010
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • 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.
    Sponsored by Senator Lieberman …

     Posted on  June 30, 2009
     and last updated June 30, 2009
     ·  8 minutes reading time
  • Online Editions of Out-of-Print Books Result from Library/Press Partnership at Univ of Pittsburgh

    Late last month, the University of Pittsburgh Press and Library System announced a joint effort to revive 500 titles with online and print-on demand access. I originally found this via a post on the Course materials, Innovation, and Technology in Education (CITE) blog. Since we have been ramping up discussions …

     Posted on  May 26, 2009
     and last updated May 26, 2009
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Beyond Federated Search Redux

    It started with a post by Carl Grant on the Federated Search Blog: Beyond Federated Search – Winning the Battle and Losing the War?. I bookmarked this in Delicious and copied this extended quote from the text into the bookmark:

    I’ve long argued that librarianship on top of digital information …

     Posted on  April 01, 2009
     and last updated April 01, 2009
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship

    Earlier this month a group of law schools released a statement promoting open access publishing of law school journals. Called the Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship, it was signed by representatives from Duke, University of Virginia, Georgetown University, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, Yale University, Stanford University …

     Posted on  February 22, 2009
     and last updated February 23, 2009
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • H.R.801 Threatens Open Access Requirement for Gov't Funded Research

    The Alliance for Taxpayer Access called out the introduction of proposed legislation that would prohibit the federal government from requiring publication of federally-funded research under open access terms. This would not only reverse the NIH Public Access Policy but would also stop other federal agencies from following a similar course …

     Posted on  February 15, 2009
     and last updated February 16, 2009
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • 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 Department of State, foreign operations, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes, after boarding Air Force One Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2007. White House photo by Chris Greenberg
    President George W. Bush signs into law H.R. 2764, the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2008, also known at the omnibus, making appropriations for the Department of State, foreign operations, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes, after boarding Air Force One Wednesday …
     Posted on  December 19, 2007
     and last updated December 19, 2007
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • 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. Over …

     Posted on  October 22, 2007
     and last updated October 22, 2007
     ·  9 minutes reading time
  • 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 education. The discussion started with "Educational Patents, Open Access Journals, and Clashing Values" and continued with a focus on open access publishing specifically with …

     Posted on  September 04, 2007
     and last updated September 04, 2007
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • 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 about the pricing structure at BioMed Central (BMC). His comment and the e-mail I received this morning from BMC (reproduced below) got me rethinking about …

     Posted on  August 13, 2007
     and last updated August 13, 2007
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • 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 week. Second, to frame the sometimes contentious interaction between academic institutions and supporting businesses as one of "clashing values." The former serves as a …

     Posted on  August 10, 2007
     and last updated August 10, 2007
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • Article-Level OAI-PMH Harvest Available from DOAJ

    Earlier this year the DOAJ began offering a new schema for registered articles that significantly improves the value of OAI-PMH harvested article content. Prior to this addition the only scheme available was Dublin Core, which as a metadata schema for describing article content is woefully inadequate. (Dublin Core, of course …

     Posted on  July 11, 2007
     and last updated July 11, 2007
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • Petition for Public Access to Publicly Funded Research in the U.S.

    As others have noted, there is now an online petition in support of public access to publicly funded research in the United States. The text of the petition is short:

    We, the undersigned, believe that broad dissemination of research results is fundamental to the advancement of knowledge. For America’s …

     Posted on  March 15, 2007
     and last updated March 15, 2007
     ·  2 minutes reading time