BEST BUSINESS BLOG EXAMPLES AND WHY IT’S HIGH TIME TO THINK ABOUT A BLOG FOR YOUR COMPANY While many businesses are still getting used to the idea of having any kind of Web presence, forward-thinking companies are looking to blogs as simple, self-sustaining Web sites and Intranets. If you’re not thinking about how to use [...]

Copyfight: New UNC Study Finds File-sharing Has No Effect on CD Sales

The Future Of News: The Digital Information Librarian – Robin Good’ Sharewood Tidings The Digital Information Librarian is one of the emerging professional roles that is best qualified to ride and leverage to its best advantage the revolution about to sweep the information management, search, retrieval and independent news publishing industries.

The staggering price of world’s best research / Bay Area universities leading charge against publishers, arguing the knowledge in academic journals must be kept within reach

Nature web focus: Access to the literature: the debate continues An overview of the pricing issues involved in electronic publications. Odlyzko asks some questions that he doesn’t answer so I thought I would And is it fair to shift costs of publishing from libraries to the authors themselves? Are the authors the main beneficiaries of [...]

The Directory of Open Access Journals now lists 1149 journals. Currently 316 journals are searchable on article level. 58551 articles are included Peter Scott’s Library Blog

Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large April’s Cites & Insights is devoted to the Broadcast Flag.

Open Access News (Formerly: FOS News) The Information Program of the Open Society Institute (OSI) is now making grants to support institutional memberships in the Public Library of Science.

Wired News: Pay Once, Share Often With LWDRM The institute, which developed the MP3 format in the first place and is therefore partly responsible for the digital-rights controversy, has conceived a new technology called Light Weight Digital Rights Management. LWDRM has the potential to end the conflict between the people and Big Music by putting [...]

Wired News: Record Stores: We’re Fine, Thanks The independent music shops that are thriving have built a close connection to their communities and deliver personal service that so-called big box stores like Wal-Mart and Best Buy can’t match, the panelists said. Imagine, service customized to the community…