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Peter E. Murray

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

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  • Engaging with Open Source Technologies

    These are the presentation notes for the Engaging with Open Source Technologies presentation during the Open Source Publishing Technologies: Current Status and Emerging Possibilities webinar on Wednesday, August 14, 2019.

    Webinar Description

    This session will focus on discussions of open source publishing platforms and systems. What is the value proposition …

     Posted on  August 14, 2019
     and last updated April 03, 2021
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • 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
  • Unglue.It -- a service to crowdsource book licensing fees -- launches

    You could say "this is a service to watch" but that would be missing the point. Yesterday the 'Unglue.It' service launched as a way to crowdsource the funding of a fee to authors to release their own works under a Creative Commons license. [caption id="p3675-tweet" align="alignright" width …

     Posted on  May 18, 2012
     and last updated May 18, 2012
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Learn to Code in 2012, Issues with Apple's iBooks Author, SOPA/PIPA Are Dead

    The internet has survived the great SOPA blackout, and we're still talking about the fallout. Apple made a major announcement of plans to support textbooks on iPads, but there are concerns about the implementation. But the first story this week is about a free service geared towards teaching people how …

     Posted on  January 26, 2012
     and last updated January 26, 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
  • Thursday Threads: Looking Backwards and Looking Forwards

    As the last DLTJ Thursday Threads of the year, the stories in this post look back to what we saw in 2011 and look forward to what we may see in 2012. Looking backwards is a list of five things we learned about publishing from O'Reilly Media and Google's 3-minute …

     Posted on  December 29, 2011
     and last updated January 15, 2018
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Consumer E-book Commitment, University Press Shorts, Improv Everwhere

    Two serious threads this week and one fun one. The first serious story is a look at the attitudes of e-book consumers from the Book Industry Study Group, including a finding that almost half of all e-book consumers would wait for an electronic edition up to three months after the …

     Posted on  November 17, 2011
     and last updated November 17, 2011
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Library Linked Data, Shifts in Publishing, Questions for Software Migrations, Hypothes.is Announcement

    In this weeks thread of topics: the final report of library linked data, an interview with one of the executives of Wiley Publishing, important questions to ask when considering major system migrations, and the announcement of work to begin on a new comment and evaluation overlay layer for the web …

     Posted on  October 27, 2011
     and last updated October 27, 2011
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Publisher/Librarian Rights, Cultural Commons, HTML5 Web Apps, Wifi Management

    This week's list of threads starts with a pointer a statement by the International Coalition of Library Consortia on the growing pressure between publishers and libraries over the appropriate rights and permissions for scholarly material. In that same vein, Joe Lucia writes about his vision for libraries and the cultural …

     Posted on  June 23, 2011
     and last updated June 23, 2011
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • Retro Thursday Threads: Ideas for Publishers, New Reading Experiences, Internet Operating System

    I recently started reading content from a tablet device and in doing so re-encountered a list of web pages stashed in a Read It Later queue that are over a year old. Not only were these pages interesting enough to read a year ago, but in light of a year's …

     Posted on  May 19, 2011
     and last updated May 19, 2011
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Free Music Scores, Hiring for Attitude, National Broadband Map

    Hickory, with true-to-life parting attitude (left) and Mittens
    This week's Thursday Threads is delayed, but for good reason. If you will indulge me with a personal note, this week saw the passing of our 20-year-old cat, Hickory, and the addition of a 6-month-old kitten, Mittens, to our family. Needless to …

     Posted on  February 24, 2011
     and last updated February 25, 2011
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Personal Book Digitizer, Status of Book Piracy, Core Elements of Description

    It wasn't too long ago that the music industry was in an uproar about stories of how easy it was to copy digital audio files and make digital copies with high fidelity. It was predicted that we would see the same thing in other media forms, and this week's DLTJ …

     Posted on  January 20, 2011
     and last updated January 20, 2011
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Amazon Pressures Publishers, Academic Spam, Mechanical Turk Spam, Multispectral Imaging

    With the close of the year approaching, this issue marks the 14th week of DLTJ Thursday Threads. This issue has a publisher's view of Amazon's strong-arm tactics in book pricing, research into the possibility that academic authors could game Google Scholar with spam, demonstrations of how Amazon's Mechanical Turk drives …

     Posted on  December 30, 2010
     and last updated January 02, 2018
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Open Publishing Alternatives, Open Bibliographic Data, Earn an MBA in Facebook, Unconference Planning

    The highlights of the past week are around publishing -- first with a model proposed by Eric Hellman in which consumers can pool enough money to pay publishers to "set a book free" under a Creative Commons license, then with an announcement by the University of Pittsburgh offering free hosting of …

     Posted on  December 02, 2010
     and last updated December 03, 2010
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Disruption in Library Acquisitions, Publishing, and Remedial Education plus Checking Assumptions of Cloud Computing and a National Digital Library

    If it is Thursday it must mean it is time for another in this series of Thursday Threads posts. This week there are an abundance of things that could fall into the category of "disruptive innovation" in libraries and higher education. If you find these interesting, you might want to …

     Posted on  October 14, 2010
     and last updated October 14, 2010
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • 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 to anyone. One of the parts of the bill that I have been following and commented on here in DLTJ is the textbook disclosure …

     Posted on  August 31, 2009
     and last updated August 31, 2009
     ·  3 minutes reading time
  • EBSCO in Cahoots With Harvard Business Press

    A controversy is starting to pick up in the business librarian community -- primarily in the U.K. it would seem -- regarding the licensing demands of Harvard Business Press (HBP) for the inclusion of Harvard Business Review articles in EBSCOhost. HBP content in EBSCOhost carries a publisher-specific rider that says use …

     Posted on  June 28, 2009
     and last updated June 28, 2009
     ·  10 minutes reading time
  • 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 this year there are two events that point to shifts in how instructors and students can shortcut the complex ecosystem of textbooks as we know it …

     Posted on  June 05, 2009
     and last updated June 05, 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
  • Clarification Offered for "Technology: The textbook of the future" in Nature

    A recent issue of Nature published an article by Declan Butler called "Technology: The textbook of the future" included a paragraph about OhioLINK's exploration of digital textbooks:

    Ongoing tests of CourseSmart e-textbooks by the University System of Ohio show that they reduce costs -- the average US student forks out some …

     Posted on  April 07, 2009
     and last updated April 07, 2009
     ·  1 minutes reading time