Storing online data in perpetuity is not just about photos and texts but thoughts and ideas. Platforms such as WordPress are starting to act, but it must be at a realistic priceWay back in 2004 the two founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, thought that it would be a cool idea to scan... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-11-25 16:00:53 UTC ]
The giants of the scientific publishing industry have made huge profits for decades. Now they are under threatScientific publishing has long been a licence to print money. Scientists need journals in which to publish their research, so they will supply the articles without monetary reward. Other... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Struggling to keep up with the increasing digitization of academia, libraries are purging older volumes to make way for study spaces and coffee shops. The act is a radical shift from when the value of a library was measured by the scope of its books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2018-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
A federal appeals court on Monday threw out the approval of a class of authors in a long-running lawsuit against Google Inc. over its efforts to electronically scan millions of books from public and university libraries in order to make them available online. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2013-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
With the Google Book Search Settlement in tatters, its fragile alliance splintering, and the parties now on a pretrial schedule, the Authors Guild last week expanded its infringement claims by suing a consortium of university libraries over a digital library initiative. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
WHILE many university libraries are tossing out books that haven't been borrowed for a while, Macquarie University has unveiled a completely new library with a revolutionary storage and retrieval system, and a new design adapted to the demands of modern students. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Sydney Morning Herald | 2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]