Category Archives: sharing

Finding the (market) value in freeing books

Posted on May 28, 2012 by John Mark Ockerbloom

I list a number of books on The Online Books Page that are relatively recent copyrighted books  put online with the permission of the copyright holder.  I am very thankful to the authors and other rightsholders who have agreed to … Continue reading →

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My mother’s orphan

Posted on October 7, 2011 by John Mark Ockerbloom

Before my mother was pregnant with me, she was working on a book. The book had begun its gestation at least a year before. She had been teaching math in Massachusetts, and was involved with the Madison Project, one of … Continue reading →

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Early journals from JSTOR and others

Posted on September 23, 2011 by John Mark Ockerbloom

Earlier this month,  JSTOR announced that it would provide  free open access to their earliest scholarly journal content, published before 1923.  All of this material should be old enough to be in the public domain.  (Or at least it is … Continue reading →

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A digital public library we still need, and could build now

Posted on June 15, 2011 by John Mark Ockerbloom

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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Open data’s role in transforming our bibliographic framework (Updated)

Posted on May 24, 2011 by John Mark Ockerbloom

I’ve seen a fair bit of buzz of the Library of Congress’s recent announcement of a new initiative for transforming the bibliographic framework of the library community.  The announcement notes a number of recent developments that are drivers for such … Continue reading →

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You do the math

Posted on November 11, 2010 by John Mark Ockerbloom

I recently heard from Peter Murray-Rust that the Central European Journal of Mathematics (CEJM) is looking for graduate students to edit the language of papers they publish.  CEJM is co-published by Versita and Springer Science+Business Media. Would-be editors are promised … Continue reading →

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Journal liberation: A community enterprise

Posted on October 15, 2010 by John Mark Ockerbloom

The fourth annual Open Access Week begins on Monday.  If you follow the official OAW website, you’ll be seeing a lot of information about the benefits of free access to scholarly research.  The amount of open-access material grows every day, … Continue reading →

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The concept of a work in the catalog web

Posted on September 17, 2010 by John Mark Ockerbloom

My previous post showed four examples of web-based catalogs that describe books and other library resources in a FRBR-like manner. They’re oriented around “works” (like Shakespeare’s Hamlet) that are embodied in multiple editions (like the hundreds or thousands of publications … Continue reading →

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As living arrows sent forth

Posted on August 31, 2010 by John Mark Ockerbloom

It’s that time of year when offspring start to leave home and strike out on their own.  Young children may be starting kindergarten.  Older ones may be heading off to university.  And in between, children slowly gain a little more … Continue reading →

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Keeping subjects up to date with open data

Posted on July 31, 2010 by John Mark Ockerbloom

In an earlier post, I discussed how I was using the open data from the Library of Congress’ Authorities and Vocabularies service to enhance subject browsing on The Online Books Page.  More recently, I’ve used the same data to make … Continue reading →

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