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Tuesday, 26th February 2002

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Good Day from Cozumel, Mexico

Scholarly Publishing
"ARL Endorses Budapest Open Access Initiative"
The news release contains links to ARL "positions and principals" on other scholarly communication issues.
See Also: Full-Text, Budapest Open Access Initiative

WHOIS Database
Source: NY Times
"The Murky Debate Over an Internet Address Database"
From the article, "..., how much information should be made available to the public about the individuals and businesses that have registered more than 35 million Web addresses (or domain names, as they are known in the trade)? What restrictions, if any, should be placed on who has access to this data?" Thanks To G.T. for the news tip.

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents
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Higher Education--United States
R&D--United States--Statistics
Source: NSF
Full-Text Report, Academic Research and Development Expenditures: Fiscal Year 2000
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British Library--Digital Collection
Source: Reuters
First Edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" Set For Digitization
From the article, "The first edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", worth 4.6 million pounds, has been hauled from the British Library vaults to be digitised and put online. Technicians sporting satellite-strength cameras began photographing the rare 15th century tome in a windowless room in London on Monday. Their 1,300 high-resolution images will then be put on the Internet. The British Library has already digitised two copies of the Gutenberg bible, printed in 1455 and available on the Internet at http://prodigi.bl.uk/gutenbg/default.asp.
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Digital Collections
Industry--United States--Image Collections
Source: Indiana University Digital Library Program
U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection
From the site, "...more than 2,200 photographs of the Gary Works steel mill and the corporate town of Gary, Indiana held by the Calumet Regional Archives at Indiana University Northwest."

Digital Collections
Periodicals--LIFE
LIFE Magazine Cover Collection Database
Search by date or keyword to access and view LIFE covers from 1936 to 1972.

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