� Price Increases Are Not the Problem …And when we buy journals which cost a lot, we should be able to expect that "a lot" translates into a figure that is not the same thing as "perfectly outrageous." Wonderfully sensible and well-written in a way even people not associated with libraries can understand.

Copyfight: the Politics of IP The Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act (DCIMA, H.R. 3261) extends extremely broad copyright-like protections to collections of factual data–data like the price of a TV, the temperature in Arizona or information collected during scientific research. DCIMA would allow companies to sue anyone who interferes with their ability to [...]

Mydoom variant appears, targets Microsoft A new version of the Windows Mydoom e-mail worm is circulating on the Internet, according to warnings from antivirus companies. The Mydoom worm variants do not directly affect Macintosh computers, although Mac users may see e-mail and attachments sent to them by infected Windows machines. Ditto.

Silicon Valley – Dan Gillmor’s eJournal – Microsoft on Patenting XML Formats Dan Gillmor has posted a reply he received from a MS PR person on the company’s attempt to patent XML.

TechnoBiblio: Patriot Act Takes A Hit Wooo hooo! A federal judge ruled unconstitutional the portion of the Patriot Act that forbids giving assistance or expert advice to organizations designated as “foreign terrorist organizations”. Now if we can just move on to the rest of the unconstitutional portions. Amen

PCWorld.com – Help! I’ve Been Web-Jacked “I heard my hard drive churning and clicked on my task manager and saw three executable programs were installing themselves,” says Chris Brandon of Brandon Internet Services. “I knew I was in trouble when I couldn’t get my task manager to cancel the programs.” By the time he checked [...]

Caveat Lector: Ianuarii 18, 2004 – Ianuarii 24, 2004 Archives: Journal profit models In fact, it seems possible to me that open-access journal publishing could turn into a small but reliable revenue stream for libraries, much as it already is for scholarly societies. I think that would be superlatively excellent. Libraries need the money.

Allegro serves iTunes to Universal Plug & Play devices Once installed on your Mac or PC, the Allegro Media Server software locates your iTunes database file. It publishes that information on the network using the UPnP MediaServer standard, making it possible for UPnP-compliant devices to play your iTunes music. UPnP technology could similarly be used [...]

Bj�rk, B-C. (2004) Open access to scientific publications – an analysis of the barriers to change � Information Research, 9(2) paper 170 [Available at http://InformationR.net/ir/9-2/paper170.html] Trying to get researchers to support the move towards open access, which most agree would be good for the advancement of science in principle, is like trying to get people [...]

blogging the market That’s why weblogs are huge: they take the power out of the IT department and the webmaster’s hegemony and hand it over to where knowledge really resides – to the individual workers who are knowledgeable enough and know how to speak with a human voice. Which means less work for the IT [...]