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Invitation to participate in a new project: Help open journals’ deep backfiles
As I’ve noted here previously, there’s a wealth of serial content published in the 20th century that’s in the public domain, but not yet freely available online, often due to uncertainty about its copyright (and the resulting hesitation to digitize … Continue reading
Posted in citizen librarians, copyright, open access, serials
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Sharing journals freely online
What are all the research journals that anyone can read freely online? The answer is harder to determine than you might think. Most research library catalogs can be searched for online serials (here’s what Penn Libraries gives access to, for … Continue reading
Posted in citizen librarians, copyright, discovery, libraries, open access, serials, sharing
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From Wikipedia to our libraries
I’ve heard the lament in more than one library discussion over the years. “People aren’t coming to our library like they should,” librarians have told me. “We’ve got a rich collection, and we’ve expended lots of resources on an online … Continue reading
Posted in citizen librarians, discovery, libraries, online books, subjects
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Building on a full complement of copyright records
Thanks to recent efforts of the US Copyright Office, we now have a complete digitization of summary copyright registration and renewal records back to the late 19th century. As Mike Burke and others at the Copyright Office have been reporting … Continue reading
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A digital public library we still need, and could build now
It’s been more than half a year since the Digital Public Library of America project was formally launched, and I’m still trying to figure out what the project organizers really want it to be. The idea of “a digital library … Continue reading
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