Category Archives: Publications

The Access Principle

Posted on 2006-04-14 by scaife

from the BOAI list: John Willinsky’s (2005) excellent book on Open Access is now available Open Access: Willinsky, J. (2005) The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship MIT Press

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Nexus network journal

Posted on 2006-04-10 by Gabriel Bodard

New in Humbul: Nexus (ISSN 1522-4600) is an online journal on architecture and mathematics, which contains a number of research papers on ancient architecture. Architecture, mathematics, perspective, and landscape formation are the most frequently recurring topics. Among the papers of … Continue reading →

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Ancient history podcasts

Posted on 2006-04-09 by scaife

Numerous topics from the ancient world at Military History Podcasts: Alexander the Great, Roman tactics, Pharsalus, Roman defeats, conquests of Cyrus the Great, Persian Wars, Sargon, Hannibal, Valor… Also: Lars Brownworth’s 12 Byzantine Rulers: The History of the Byzantine Empire.

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JIIA Eprints Repository

Posted on 2006-04-05 by scaife

Antonella D’Ascoli informa  dell’attivazione del JIIA Eprints Repository http://eprints.jiia.it/, Repository collegato al ‘Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology’ http://www.jiia.it, in data 2006-04-04 registrato presso le Autorità competenti, quindi presente nei seguenti elenchi: http://www.eprints.org/software/archives/ http://www.openarchives.org/Register/BrowseSites http://re.cs.uct.ac.za/ Il precedente MyOPIA JIIA Repository (a seguito di … Continue reading →

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They’re getting…

Posted on 2006-04-04 by scaife

… desperate! Ray Cha concludes: In the end, I agree with Ben’s previous post that the Nature article in question has a marginal relevance to the bigger picture. The main point is that Wikipedia works amazingly well and contains articles … Continue reading →

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The Access Principle

Posted on 2006-04-04 by scaife

Thanks to Peter Suber for pointing to Kate Corby’s review of Willinsky, John. (2006). The access principle: The case for open access to research and scholarship. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. It is unfortunate that many academics feel that assuring … Continue reading →

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Ἐποποῖ !

Posted on 2006-03-26 by scaife

Rob Dyer’s copiously annotated translation of a remarkable Suda entry (epsilon 2807: epopoi) has now received editorial support from SOL Senior Editor David Whitehead. From the start of the notes: This delightful collection of shouts and ‘mimic words’ (bird cries … Continue reading →

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Nature special on the future of scientific computing

Posted on 2006-03-22 by scaife

At every humanities computing-related meeting I’ve been to over the past year, someone exhorts us to “have a good look at what the scientists are doing.” Nature magazine has just published a special edition with useful articles towards that end: … Continue reading →

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DMCA: Circumventing Competition

Posted on 2006-03-21 by scaife

Circumventing Competition: The Perverse Consequences of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by Timothy B. Lee Executive Summary The courts have a proven track record of fashioning balanced remedies for the copyright challenges created by new technologies. But when Congress passed … Continue reading →

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“What do you do with a million books?”

Posted on 2006-03-16 by scaife

The March 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available.  This is a special issue on the theme of “Digital Library Evolution” with guest editor, Gregory Crane, Tufts University. The articles include: What Do You Do with a Million … Continue reading →

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Additions to neo-Latin colloquia texts

Posted on 2006-03-10 by scaife

We have added two additional authors to the Neo-Latin Colloquia Project: Franciscus Cervantes de Salazar (1514?-1575), Ad Exercitia Linguae Latinae Dialogi Petrus Popo, Colloquia de Scholis Herbipolensibus Moreover, the hopper now provides access to portions of these texts that were … Continue reading →

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LibriVox: free public domain audiobooks

Posted on 2006-03-10 by scaife

If you’re too cheap to subscribe to audible.com, and you’re about to take a long drive or plane ride, and you want something to listen to, there’s LibriVox.   The catalog shows completed books, short works (including some poetry), and works … Continue reading →

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More, better podcasts available

Posted on 2006-02-27 by scaife

William du Cassé and Jessica McCormack have produced new podcasts for colloquia by Corderius (numbers 6-9 and 13-20). Access and subscription details are available at the site for the Neo-Latin Colloquia project. We’re learning: this batch sounds much better than … Continue reading →

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Google Scholar = Worldcat?

Posted on 2006-02-21 by Tom Elliott

Christian DiCarlo, writing on local library search in the official Google blog, announces the “expansion” of Google Scholar‘s Library Search program to “help people around the world find works of their interest in local libraries.” What’s lurking behind? Google describes … Continue reading →

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DRM and academic publishing (GROKLAW)

Posted on 2006-02-14 by scaife

Roy Bixler, Digital Copyright Issues in Academic Publishing Bruce Barton, The tension between DRM and academic publishing (hat tip: Peter Gainsford)

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