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Tag Archives: Libraries
Libraries Play a Key Role in Setting Up and Managing Open Repositories
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
Posted in Libraries, Open Access, Open Access Repositories
Tagged archiving, Libraries, Open Access, open repository, research library, RIMS, RIN, RLUK, SHERPA JULIET, SHERPA ROMEO
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New Interface for 6,137 OA Journals in DOAJ
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
Posted in Libraries, Open Access
Tagged DOAJ, Libraries, Lund University, Open Access, Open Access Journals, Sparc
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Libraries on the Web – Should They Strive to Become New Search Engines?
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
600,000 Words from Oxford English Dictionary – Use Them, Choose Them and Don’t Wear Them Out!
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
A Word On Michigan Library CC0 Initiative: Are We Blowing Wish Flowers?
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
Europe’s Ana Europeana – Reimagining the Culture in Three Steps
As the new initiative from the European Commission for the Digital Agenda, Europeana is supposed to become a single access point for consulting digital materials from libraries, museums and archives of Europe. “In ancient times, the library of Alexandria was … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Commons, Open Access Repositories, Open Access Tools, Open Education
Tagged Art Nouveau, British Library, copyright, Creative Commons, Digital Agenda, European Commission, Europeana, growing knowledge, Libraries, Louvre, museums, National Library of the Netherlands, Open Access, public domain, Public Domain Charter, Rijksmuseum
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Open Access Initiative – Two Big Thumbs Up
In re-imagining of the society, the library, and the science of the future, there is a growing presence of huge institutions adding up to ideas. Recently, a library, 14-million-books strong, and a nuclear institute, 18-member-states strong, have shown support to … Continue reading
What is Google Scholar?
What does it mean to stand on a shoulder of a giant? The phrase doesn’t stand for tramping on poor giant’s face and blinding his eyes with mud in order to have a better view. It implies finding out everything … Continue reading
MIT Makes All Faculty Publications Open Access
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has defined its mission as the one which will “best serve the nation and the world in 21st century”. That the institute has made its scholarly articles openly accessible is not exactly news but it … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Open Access, Open Education
Tagged Academic pu, DSpace, Librarians, Libraries, MIT, MIT OpenCourseWare, Open Access, scholars, Times Higher Education
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