The Creative Librarian is a hub for matters important to librarians/information scientists of today. There is a definite lean towards electronic issues, however it isn’t restricted to only those. Hopefully this site will also be useful for informing non-librarians on these issues as so many of them affect us all.
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 blogs [...]
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 the [...]
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…
Open Access News (Formerly: FOS News)
One of the claims made by traditional publishers is that the peer review process might be harmed if open access business models and practices were adopted. But as this editorial in the BMJ shows, peer review is too important to be left to publishers to manage. Formal training and [...]
The Right to Preserve: The Rights Issues of Digital Preservation
The flip side of moving to digital collections. They are far more useful in the present but what about the future?
The Observer | Business | Black arts of the science mags
How’s this for a winning publishing formula? A university funds scientific research; the research is turned into a paper by an author, who pays a colour illustration and reprint charge – say, £1,000 – and surrenders the copyright for the privilege of publishing his findings [...]
Open Access News (Formerly: FOS News)
Nowick and Jenda summarize library responses to the crisis in scholarly publishing costs and cite what they deem most useful approaches. They point how unsustainable costs limit scientists’ access to each other’s work.
Library and scholar educational efforts, such as informing scholars about copyright alternatives and principles outlined [...]
Comcast cutting off spam zombies
Internet service provider Comcast Corp. is cutting off Internet service for some customers whose Windows computers are being used to relay spam messages, according to a company spokeswoman.
The biggest problem with infected machines seems to be that the owners don’t know their infected and most of the unlucky recipients don’t [...]
TechnoBiblio: CAN-SPAM PUT TO THE TEST
An ISP in California is taking a spammer to court claiming they forged header information and neglected to include contact info in about 100 email messages they sent through its service.
New Seattle Central Library is on the cutting edge of technological advances
Libraries have always been in the information business, but technology has expanded the definition of what “information” means — and exploded the list of what people expected from their libraries even just 18 years ago, when Central got its first computer. (It was a [...]
Serials Crisis: Up and Out of the Library
There is increasing solidarity among the libraries whose budgets are in the middle of the crisis, the faculties whose members contribute the content, and the university administrators who wind up paying the bills. They are taking action to regain control over the millions they spend on content, even [...]
Open Access News:Canadian Supreme Court rules for plaintiff in copyright case
The Canadian Supreme Court upheld the appeal of the Law Society of Upper Canada which was sued by several legal publishers for having photocopiers in its research library and maintaining a photocopy distribution service “in person, by mail or by facsimile transmission” for the society’s [...]