Professional Reading Shelf Digital Rights Management
Source: CNET News.com Publishing industry tackles digital rights
"There's no Napster for books yet, but creators of text and images still have to deal with a lot of the same digital rights management issues perplexing the movie and music industries."
-- Open Access Publishing
Source: Biomed Central Who, What & Why?
"A series of short guides to the players, stakeholders and technical terms relevant to Open Access publishing. 'Who, What & Why?' will help readers to become informed about the world of Open Access." See also: The devil you don't know: The unexpected future of Open Access publishing (First Monday)
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Source: Yale University Science Libraries Open Access Journals: revenue beyond author charges
"This page will attempt to outline the current pricing models that are being tested for supporting Open Access to electronic journals. My definition of open access is: freely available immediate access to published peer reviewed research articles. The untenable journal inflation situation is described on the Journal Cost Update web page. There are a number of elements that influence (or hinder) open access distribution of the scientific research literature:
+ copyright (intellectual property) restrictions,
+ for-profit activities, and
+ the underlying publish-or-perish pressure. The major concern of the community should be maintaining a revenue stream to support the peer review process." See also: Non-Exhaustive List of Resources About Open Access Publishing (Lehigh University)
-- Librarians--Canadian--United States
Source: Carol Dales, Reference Librarian, California State University, Dominguez Hills Canadian Librarians in America
"This page is especially for all of those intrepid Canadian Librarians who have chosen to move temporarily to the United States under the provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Some of us have been unable to find entry level jobs in our provinces, some have chosen to retire in the south and work part-time in the US, and some of us have simply decided that it was much more beneficial �- to both our career paths and our bank accounts �- to move south. Whatever our reasons, moving to a new country is never as easy as we think it will be. This site is designed to provide information to those considering the move, and to support those of us already down here!" Offers legal information, a list of U.S. libraries that have hired Canadian librarians, job-hunting advice, "tips for the newly arrived".
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