Category Archives: Open Source

TILE 1.0 released

Posted on 2011-07-22 by Gabriel Bodard

Those who have been waiting impatiently for the first stable release of the Text Image Linking Environment (TILE) toolkit need wait no longer: the full program can be downloaded from: <http://mith.umd.edu/tile/>. From that site: The Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE) is … Continue reading →

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Open Access and Citation Impact

Posted on 2010-11-17 by Gabriel Bodard

A recent study published in the Public Library of Science has tested the relationship between Open Access self-archiving of peer-reviewed articles and improved citation impact. See: Gargouri Y et al. ‘Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher … Continue reading →

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GRBS Free Online

Posted on 2009-07-22 by Gabriel Bodard

Recently circulated by Joshua Sosin: Volume 49 (2009) will be the last volume of GRBS printed on paper. Beginning with volume 50, issues will be published quarterly on-line on the GRBS website, on terms of free access. We undertake this … Continue reading →

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The Digital Archimedes Palimpsest Released

Posted on 2008-10-29 by dporter

Very exciting news – the complete dataset of the Archimedes Palimpsest project (ten years in the making) has been released today. The official announcement is copied below, but I’d like to point out what I think it is that makes … Continue reading →

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UMich libraries goes creative-commons

Posted on 2008-10-20 by Tom Elliott

Via Open-Access News we learn: The University of Michigan Library has decided to adopt Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial licenses for all works created by the Library for which the Regents of the University of Michigan hold the copyrights. These works include … Continue reading →

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Legal guide to GPL compliance

Posted on 2008-09-14 by Gabriel Bodard

I posted a few weeks ago on a guide to citing Creative Commons works, and just a short while later I saw this not directly related story about a Practical Guide to GPL Compliance, from the Software Freedom Law Center. … Continue reading →

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Open Access Day Announced: 14 October 2008

Posted on 2008-08-29 by Tom Elliott

By way of Open Access News we learn of the announcement of Open Access Day 2008: SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), the Public Library of Science (PLoS), and Students for Free Culture have jointly announced the first … Continue reading →

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How to cite Creative Commons works

Posted on 2008-08-16 by Gabriel Bodard

A very useful guide is being compiled by Molly Kleinman in her Multi-Purpose Librarian blog. As someone who licenses a lot of work using CC-BY, and who both re-uses and sometimes re-mixes a lot of CC work (especially photographs) for … Continue reading →

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Self-archiving

Posted on 2008-07-08 by Tom Elliott

Michael E. Smith has just blogged an opinion piece on self-archiving.

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Microsoft Ends Book and Article Scanning

Posted on 2008-05-24 by Tom Elliott

Miguel Helf, writing in the New York Times, reports: Microsoft said Friday that it was ending a project to scan millions of books and scholarly articles and make them available on the Web … Microsoft’s decision also leaves the Internet … Continue reading →

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new CC Journal: Glossator

Posted on 2008-05-16 by dporter

By way of the Humanist. Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary http://ojs.gc.cuny.edu/index.php/glossator/ Glossator publishes original commentaries, editions and translations of commentaries, and essays and articles relating to the theory and history of commentary, glossing, and marginalia. The journal aims … Continue reading →

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New Open-Access Humanities Press Makes Its Debut

Posted on 2008-05-08 by dporter

Article in The Chronicle of Higher Education Scholars in the sciences have been light-years ahead of their peers in the humanities in exploring the possibilities of open-access publishing. But a new venture with prominent academic backers, the Open Humanities Press, … Continue reading →

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(BYZANTINA) SYMMEIKTA goes open-access

Posted on 2008-05-06 by Tom Elliott

By way of Open Access News, we learn of this announcement, recently posted at openaccess.gr: Taking into consideration the latest developments in scientific publishing, the Institute for Byzantine Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation has reevaluated the aims of … Continue reading →

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Signs that social scholarship is catching on in the humanities

Posted on 2008-03-14 by Tom Elliott

By way of Peter Suber’s Open Access News: Spiro, Lisa. “Signs that social scholarship is catching on in the humanities.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, March 11, 2008. http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/signs-that-social-scholarship-is-catching-on-in-the-humanities/. Spiro asks: “To what extent are humanities researchers practicing ‘social scholarship’ … Continue reading →

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Rieger, Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization

Posted on 2008-03-02 by Gabriel Bodard

CLIR (the Council on Library and Information Resources in DC) have published in PDF the text of a white paper by Oya Rieger titled ‘Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization‘. She discusses large-scale digitization initiatives such as Google Books, … Continue reading →

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