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03/09/2010
The British Library has made its extensive collection of bibliographic records freely accessible to everyone. This service is addressed beyond the community of librarians and information specialists and aims to facilitate alternative uses of this material.
13/07/2010
The issue of the so-called orphan works has been at the center of the initiative on Digital Libraries by the European Commission. Orphan are still-in-copyright works whose rightholders cannot be identified or located. The problem of orphan works has immediate repercussions on the digitization of cultural and other materials and the access to such digitized material.
24/06/2010
Ithaka recently published the "Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey 2009: Key Strategic Insights for Libraries, Publishers, and Societies", which examines faculty attitudes towards the transition to a digital research environment, the influence of digital technologies on research and their significance for libraries, publishers and socities.
01/06/2010
A Declaration on Open Access in Southern Europe was signed during a seminar organized by the Spanish Organization on Research and Technology (FECYT) in the frame of the Spanish Presidency of the EU in Granada, Spain, on May 12-14th. Some of the main points of the Declaration are the development of common policies for Open Access in Southern Europe, the development of national task forces, and initiatives to promote Open Access among all stakeholders. Delegations from Greece, Turkey, Italy, France and Portugal took part in the seminar. Each delegation comprised stakeholders in Open Access, such as policy and funding agencies, publishers, libraries, researchers etc. The National Documentation Centre coordinated the Greek delegation.
21/05/2010
Presidents and provosts of 27 large private and public research universities in the United States lend their support to the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) in an "Open Letter to the Higher Education Community". The signatories include the following prestigious institutions, among others: Harvard University, Princeton, Stanford, Berkley, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University, Cornell, Ohio State University.
11/05/2010
