Retooling Libraries for the Data Challenge
With her usual penetrating analysis, Salo once again lays bare a segment of modern librarianship as she has in the past for institutional repositories and intellectual property rights in academia. Beginning with a litany of challenges, from the charact…
Read MoreThe Purpose of Coypright
The purpose of copyright in the United States, as Loren takes
pains to point out, is very clearly stated in the Constitution: “Article
I, section 8, clause 8 of the United States Constitution provides that
Congress shall have the power: ‘to promote …
Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works
Every three years, and in response to requests received from the
public, the Librarian of Congress can issue exemptions to the broad
provisions in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that ban the
circumvention of technical measures that control acc…
The Public Library in Utopia
With the outlook for libraries looking rather bleak at the moment, what better time to look at futurist visions of the public library from over a hundred years ago? Author Kevin Hayes does precisely this, tapping ‘utopian’ fiction of the late 19th and…
Read MoreOpening the Door: How Faculty Authors Can Implement an Open Access Policy at Their Institutions
In this 18-page report, the authors examine the legal issues surrounding open access policies. They cover relevant copyright basics, nonexclusive licenses, copyright transfers, the “work for hire” doctrine, and conclude with five criteria for an effect…
Read MoreUniversities and Libraries Move to the Mobile Web
This article reports on a study of the mobile websites of large research universities and their libraries in the U.S. and Canada and compares what was found with what the literature suggests that mobile web users desire. When the author conducted the …
Read MoreBetting the House on HTML5
The news is full of reports of that the “tipping point” for
e-books has arrived. New on the horizon is HTML5, a format that allows for
book pages to be formatted in a logical way for web browsers, eliminating
the need for third-party plug-in applica…
An Emergent Micro-Services Approach to Digital Curation Infrastructure
This paper describes a new way to look at preservation (curation) services as proposed by the University of California Curation Center (UC3). “The new UC3 approach to digital curation infrastructure is based on the idea of devolving necessary function …
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