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The Harvard Law Library is seeking a creative and experienced innovator to provide strategic and operational leadership as the Manager of our Digital Lab. The Digital Lab is the Library's focal point for a wide range of activities, including developing internet tools to promote and enhance access to legal information and coordinating the library's digitization efforts. Reporting to the Associate Director for Collection Development and Digitization, the Manager of the Digital Lab leads the design, creation, and distribution of technological tools for delivering content and services in support of learning and research at the Harvard Law School and beyond; manages the Library's digitization projects, including those produced onsite and those outsourced to the University's Digital Imaging Group or other external entities; develops and implements division policies, plans, goals, and procedures; ensures appropriate staffing levels, staff skills, and output. The Manager will supervise a current full time staff of five; two Development Programmers, a Web Development Librarian, a Digital Preservation Librarian, and a Digital Projects Assistant, as well as project fellows.

1. Digital Library Manager at Northeastern University
2. Office of Scholarly Communication Program Manager at Harvard
3. Digital Library Jobs: Digital Library Software Engineer at Harvard
4. Digital Library Jobs: Digital Project Manager at Houston Public Library
5. Digital Library Jobs: Manager, Digital Services and Technology Planning Unit

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This new author service offers the option of making articles freely available upon publication. Brill Open enables authors to comply with research funding bodies and institutions which require open access.

The Brill Open option will be available for all 135 journals published under the imprints Brill, Martinus Nijhoff and VSP. Articles will be put in online open access in exchange for an article publishing fee to be arranged by the author.

Sam Bruinsma, Brill's Business Development Director, explains:"We are launching this new service in answer to a growing number of research funding bodies and universities announcing their compliance with the open access model. With Brill Open our journals are ready to meet the expected increase in contributions under this model."

In order to ensure that authors' funder requirements have no influence on the editorial peer review and decision-making, Brill Open will be made available to authors only upon acceptance of their paper for publication. Those authors who do not wish to use this service will be under no pressure to do so, and their accepted article will be published in the usual manner.

Brill's strategic intent is to adjust the future subscription price of a journal to reflect an increase in Brill Open fees. Sam Bruinsma comments: "Our view on open access developments is positive. We accept that over time an increasing part of our revenues will come through this new model. This will have an impact on the revenues from our library subscription service. The combination of these two business models will continue to support a healthy and sustainable journal program attractive to the best authors in the field."

1. BioMed Central Launches Its 200th Open Access Journal
2. Nature Publishing Group Will Publish New Open Access Journal, Nature Communications
3. Columbia’s Center for Digital Research and Scholarship Launches Harm Reduction Journal Companion Site for Supplemental Materials
4. SHERPA's RoMEO Service Tops 500 Publisher Self-Archiving Policies
5. Harvard University Press Launches Open Access Law Journal

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At the moment that "incentives" for creation meet "preferences" for the same, the economic account of copyright loses its explanatory power. This piece explores the ways in which the desire to create can be excessive, beyond rationality, and free from the need for economic incentive. Psychological and sociological concepts can do more to explain creative impulses than classical economics. As a result, a copyright law that treats creative activity as a product of economic incentives can miss the mark and harm what it aims to promote. The idea of abundance—even overabundance—in creativity can help define the proper scope of copyright law, especially in fair use. I explore these ideas by examining how creators think about what they do. As it turns out, commercially and critically successful creators resemble creators who avoid the general marketplace and create unauthorized derivative works (fanworks). The role of love, desire, and other passions in creation has lessons for the proper aims of copyright, the meaning of fair use, and conceptions of exploitation in markets.

1. Litman on "Real Copyright Reform"
2. "The Regulation of Creativity Under the WIPO Internet Treaties"
3. "The Google Book Settlement and the Fair Use Counterfactual"
4. Rep. John Conyers Replies to Lessig and Eisen about Fair Copyright in Research Works Act
5. Shifting the Burden of Proof in Fair Use Cases to Copyright Holders

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Contents:

• Global and regional trends in the diffusion of ICTs such as fixed and mobile telecommunications, Internet, and broadband
• Ranking of the most dynamic economies in terms of increased ICT connectivity between 2003 and 2008
• Monitoring of the “digital divide”
• Survey of national statistical offices on the use of ICT in the business sector
• A review of the changing patterns in the trade of ICT goods
• A mapping of the new geography in the offshoring of IT and ICT-enabled services.
• Policy recommendations on how developing countries can reap greater benefits from ICT
• A statistical annex with global ICT data.

1. The Internet in Britain 2009
2. Home Broadband Adoption 2009
3. Internet Had Over One Billion Users in December 2008
4. New Pew Report: Future of the Internet III

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Joining a growing national trend, Utah State University Press will merge with the administrative structure of Merrill-Cazier Library at Utah State University. The transition has begun, with the arrangement officially taking effect at the start of fiscal year 2010-11. . . .

"Many university presses are moving toward open access, often under the administration of the library,” Clement [Richard Clement, Dean of USU Libraries] said. “The most conspicuous example in the recent past is the University of Michigan Press which moved into the library and is now focusing on OA and other forms of digital publication. We propose to move the USU Press along the same path." . . .

While the decision to move USU Press to Merrill-Cazier Library was not completely budget-driven, it will result in significant savings, Clement said. With a larger staff in place, the library will assume a number of support activities for the press, including accounting, IT support, graphic design and public relations. . . .

USU Press will adopt a new publication model, with open access as a central component and will move toward increased digital delivery of books. The library’s position will be enhanced as well, as academic libraries nationally take on a stronger role in the evolution of scholarly publishing.

Read more about it at "Survival—Through Open Access" and "USU Press merging with Merrill-Cazier Library."

1. Position Statement From University Press Directors on Free Access to Scholarly Journal Articles
2. University of Pittsburgh Press Makes 500 Titles Open Access and Print-on-Demand
3. University of Oregon Library Faculty Adopt Open Access Mandate
4. Oregon State University Libraries Adopt Library Faculty Open Access Policy
5. Utah State University Press May Lose University Subsidy

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The Fedorazon project is first and foremost the experiences of a small HE/FE team running and maintaining a Repository in the Cloud for one year. Being early adopters we provide both technical, fiscal and practical advice for both our successes and failures in this endeavour. We hope this report provides insight for other institutions wishing to utilise the Cloud for their Repository instance which we wholeheartedly recommend given they read this report first and prepare accordingly.

The Fedorazon project has discovered that a 'Repository in the Cloud' is easy to get up and running (both figuratively and literally); after that, all the complexity of hardware management, political costings and human resource allocation are still right where you left them. None the less we think there are significant cost savings in the Cloud that will only increase over time. We also believe that utilising the 'network effect' of the Cloud institutions can relieve the burden of having a local hardware expert to manage the repository instance. Finally, we believe that Cloud will lead to a significant change in the way we view repository architectures, especially in regards to how a 'preservation architecture' is achieved.

1. 7 Things You Should Know About Cloud Computing
2. Welsh Repository Network Final Report
3. Cloud Computing: DuraSpace Report to Mellon Foundation
4. “What Cloud Computing Really Means”
5. Leslie Carr on Repositories and Cloud Computing

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The Harvard Law Library is seeking an energetic and creative web developer to join our newly created Digital Lab team. The Digital Lab is the Library's focal point for a wide range of activities including developing internet tools to promote and enhance access to legal information. The Web Developer manages the full life cycle of development projects. Reporting to the Manager of the Digital Lab, the Web Developer will design, develop, test and deploy new applications and extensions to existing applications; research coding and infrastructure technologies in connection with application design and implementation; identify integration requirements between applications; review and modify systems programs as needed to correct utility or application programs; install or customize modules and features for open source and proprietary software packages; develop and maintain documentation, participate in third party tool and product evaluations as needed, and take on other related duties as assigned. Works closely with librarian, unit director and other programmers.

1. PALNI Systems Analyst at INCOLSA
2. Programmer Analyst 2 at Yale
3. Library IT Jobs: Systems Librarian at National Library of Medicine
4. Library IT Jobs: Lead Information Technology Specialist at Library Of Congress
5. Library IT Jobs: Web Librarian at the College of Staten Island

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Speaking at the Oct. 22 Faculty Senate meeting, University Librarian Michael Keller said the digital world offers a "much greater palette of expression" to graduate students, because they will be able to include more graphics, color and character sets in their dissertations than in paper copies.

"[There will be] more opportunities to link to online resources and to have those links live," Keller said during a joint presentation on the program with University Registrar Thomas Black.

The program is the result of a yearlong collaboration between Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources and the Registrar's Office.

Under the program, digital dissertations will be stored in the Stanford Digital Repository, which provides preservation services for scholarly resources, helping to ensure their integrity, authenticity and usability over time.

Keller said the documents will be available to the Stanford community through Socrates, the university's online library catalog, and "available to the world" through Google, which will serve as a third-party distributor. He said the library will print one copy of each work and store it in the Stanford University Archives.

1. Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 4
2. Papers from ETD 2009: 12th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations
3. Stanford University Libraries Have Laid Off 32 Employees, Will Close Physics Library
4. Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 3
5. Temple University Drops Paper Doctoral Dissertations, Moves to ETDs

1. “RKBExplorer: Repositories, Linked Data and Research Support”
2. OECD: We Need Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables
3. OCLC: A Symposium for Publishers and Librarians
4. “On the Communication of Scientific Results: The Full-Metadata Format”
5. “Aligning METS with the OAI-ORE Data Model”

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This report concludes the development of an overall framework for depositing stage-two outputs in and for harvesting log files from repositories. An innovative workflow has been devised to describe and standardise the deposit from publishers to repositories that demonstrates, in a core group of interoperable European repositories, the capability of accepting material deposited from third party publishers and authors beyond the project duration.

The development of an appropriate workflow for author deposits has proved challenging, as the author response is unpredictable, and cannot readily be standardised. The guiding principle adopted is that authors are encouraged to follow their established practice of deposit in an institutional or subject-specific repository. Failing such practice, a central deposit in the PEER Depot for distribution to designated PEER repositories is recommended.

1. Enhanced Ingest to Digital E-Research Repositories: Final Report
2. Digital Repository for the Arts: Kultur: Final Report
3. IR Deposit Using Embedded Document Metadata: Deposit Plait: Final Report
4. Draft Report on the Provision of Usage Data and Manuscript Procedures for Publishers and Repository Managers
5. PIRUS—Publisher and Institutional Repository Usage Statistics: Final Report

Read more about it at "House Bill Would Ban FCC Net Neutrality Rules" and "House, Senate Get Separate Bills to Kill Net Neutrality."

1. Congressional Research Service Electronic Accessibility Act of 2009 Introduced
2. Analysis of The Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009
3. Net Neutrality: The Federal Communications Commission's Authority to Enforce its Network Management Principles
4. In 2007-2008, Reed Elsevier Inc. Made Contributions to Eight House Judiciary Committee Members
5. Urgent Call to Action: Conyers Bill Opposing NIH Open Access Policy May Soon Come to House Vote

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The VIVOweb Project is a two-year $12 million project funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to build a national network of distributed Resource Description Framework (RDF) databases facilitating discovery of scientists and their research and encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration and scientific exchange. The VIVO (http://vivo.cornell.edu) experts and resources network has been under development in Mann Library at Cornell since 2003 and is currently in use at Cornell and at the University of Florida. The latter is the lead institution in this multi-institution project.

1. Software Development Manager at King's College London
2. Digital Library Jobs: Project Manager for the Integrated Workflow for Institutional Repository Enhancement Project
3. Digital Library Jobs: Library Technology Development Specialist at Villanova
4. Digital Library Jobs: Digital Project Manager at Houston Public Library
5. Digital Library Jobs: Repository Software Programmer at CARL

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Using an open architecture and open ebook formats, Kahle and his team intend to see that ebooks are available—for free or a fee—that will work on any device—whether a laptop, PC, smartphone, game console, or dedicated ebook reader. While it is still in development and probably years from completion, the BookServer project is intended to allow users to search book indexes across the web—whether it be on publishers' sites, libraries, bookstores, universities, or other sources—to identify content, compare vendor offerings, and easily download titles.

1. Internet Archive Launches BookServer
2. Internet Archive Asks to Intervene in Authors Guild v. Google
3. Internet Archive’s New E-Book Reader, Flip Book
4. Sony’s eBook Store to Offer Over a Half-Million Public Domain Books from Google
5. 300,000 Sony Reader Digital Books Sold

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Based on the findings, the Government's reported intentions are:

• for authors of copyright works; to support fair treatment through new model contracts and clauses and fair returns for use of their work by improving education about and enforcement of rights;
• for rights holders; to help secure a viable future by encouraging the development of new business models, modernising the licensing process and maintaining support for education about and enforcement of rights;
• for consumers; to allow them to benefit from the digital age by seeking to legitimise noncommercial use of legitimately-purchased copyright works and improving access to 'orphan works' such as out-of-print books;
• for educators and researchers; to support them by improving access to works, resolving issues around copyright and contract and ensuring exceptions to copyright are right for the digital age; and
• for businesses and other users; to work towards a simpler copyright system by, improving the copyright licensing process and encouraging the development of new business models.

This means:

• UK action to improve access to orphan works, enable extended collective licensing, encourage the development of model contracts and clauses, and tackle P2P file-sharing; and
• A willingness on the Government's part to consider European action that provides commonsense rules for private, non-commercial use of copyright material that will give consumers much more freedom to do what they want (such as creating mash-ups) and make clear what they cannot do.

1. Orphan Works: A Statement of Best Practices
2. Center for Intellectual Property to Launch CIP Member Community
3. Peter Hirtle on the Impact of the Google Book Settlement on Foreign Copyright Holders
4. “The Google Book Search Settlement: A New Orphan-Works Monopoly?”
5. "ALPSP Response to the Intellectual Property Office Issues Paper '© the Future'"

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In 2009-2012 LIBER will give priority to the following areas:

• Scholarly communication
• Digitisation and resource discovery
• Heritage collections and preservation
• Organisation and human resources
• LIBER Services

1. Stanford University to Implement Electronic Dissertations
2. Concordia University Launches Spectrum: Concordia University Research Repository
3. Patricia A. Steele Named Dean of the University of Maryland Libraries
4. ARL Releases Transformational Times: An Environmental Scan Prepared for the ARL Strategic Plan Review Task Force
5. ARL Releases The Research Library's Role in Digital Repository Services