Manhattan User’s Guide > Archives > Medical Privacy According to yesterday’s front-page story in the Times, Justice Department attorney Sheila M. Gowan argued before Judge Richard Conway Casey (U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York) that “Individuals no longer possess a reasonable expectation that their histories will remain completely confidential.” First librarians, now doctors. [...]

Prospect Magazine – Britain’s Intelligent Conversation For many popular desktop applications, such as word processors, open source software often follows the innovations made in proprietary software. And so Microsoft Word remains a more polished product than its open source rivals. But it is by no means clear that all buyers, especially organisations, choose software solely [...]

Embracing open access The more successful open access becomes, the more irrelevant our traditional view of library budgets will be. This is an issue of institutional economics, not library economics, and we need to engage our institutional leaders at that level if we are to continue to play our crucial role in information management. Now, [...]

I’ve added two new categories, “Open Access” and “Career Info”, and moved some entries over to them from the Library Links page. For accessability reasons, I’m trying to keep that section from becoming a “catch all”. Links to the old versions in the original category should still work for quite a while.

Caveat Lector: Februarii 08, 2004 – Februarii 14, 2004 Archives: A thousand publishers blooming Dorothea responds to critisisms of Open Access.

Factors affecting the use of open source software in tertiary education institutions Open Source Software (OSS) is software that has been released under a license which requires the distribution of the software’s source code with any binaries. It is often available at no cost and is mostly supported by developers providing their services for free. [...]

TechnoBiblio: Ahhh, filtering…. See, I’m not the only one.

OpenEnterpriseTrends.com: Open Source vs. Shared Source – Hunt for Value In a nutshell, shared source is a take-off on the open source model without all the benefits that open source offers. Shared source licenses do not allow developers to modify the source code and certain portions of the source code remain hidden and it cannot [...]

PCWorld.com – Web Stars: Best of the Web rustrated by the growing number of pay-per-view Web archives? Your local library’s Web site might be able to help, though you may need a library card to enjoy full access. For example, New York Public Library cardholders can read issues of The New York Times online for [...]