Category Archives: Libraries

InTech Publishes 15 New, Specialised Books

Posted on July 22, 2011 by

15 brand new books have just been uploaded on our online reading platform InTechOpen. With a base of 450+ OA books, InTech places itself as the world leader in publishing highly specialised OA books, growing the number of its devoted … Continue reading →

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Libraries Play a Key Role in Setting Up and Managing Open Repositories

Posted on April 14, 2011 by

The recent report from RIN, Research Information Network, and RLUK, Research Libraries UK, presents the findings of a systematic study of the value of the services that libraries in the UK provide to researchers, and of the contributions that libraries … Continue reading →

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New Interface for 6,137 OA Journals in DOAJ

Posted on March 30, 2011 by

When it comes to tracking down the ever growing number of open access journals from everywhere around the world, DOAJ, the Directory of Open Access Journals, is the first to take “measures”. DOAJ has now grown to the size of … Continue reading →

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Focusing on the Impact of Open Access on Legal Scholarship – 50% More Citations

Posted on March 10, 2011 by

A new paper by James M. Donovan from the University of Kentucky College of Law caught much attention recently. The paper is self-archived and it examines the citation trend of open access articles from three different law journals. The opening … Continue reading →

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Libraries on the Web – Should They Strive to Become New Search Engines?

Posted on January 25, 2011 by

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. (Jose Louis Borges) When librarian happens to also be a writer, he imagines an infinite library, like Jorge Louis Borges did when he described one with books containing … Continue reading →

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600,000 Words from Oxford English Dictionary – Use Them, Choose Them and Don’t Wear Them Out!

Posted on January 13, 2011 by

When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ (Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) A worthy hint from Open Culture website, … Continue reading →

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A Word On Michigan Library CC0 Initiative: Are We Blowing Wish Flowers?

Posted on December 8, 2010 by

John Wilkin, a librarian at the University of Michigan whose library recently dropped 700,000 books into the public domain with the CC Zero license, has made an interesting comment on this act. He compared bibliographic records made available all over … Continue reading →

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The Great Book Robbery Project – Open Access To Win Back the Palestinian Books

Posted on November 30, 2010 by

But I do know that the stranger can never go back to what he was. Even if he returns. It is over. A person gets ‘displacement’ as he gets asthma, and there is no cure for either. (Mourid Barghouti, “I … Continue reading →

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Simon Fraser University – From Fur Traps to Science Fiction

Posted on October 25, 2010 by

What would a fur trader such as Simon Fraser do with Open Access to data? He would probably not have thought of traveling to the mouth of a river which bears his name to this date. However, for the students … Continue reading →

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Trinity College Gives Irish Blessing to Open Access – May the Luck of the Irish Enfold You

Posted on October 21, 2010 by

Probably the most exciting news during the Open Access Week 2010 is that of Dublin’s Trinity College providing free online access to its research. Trinity College has thus joined the outstanding pioneers of the OA movement on student campuses, MIT, … Continue reading →

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