E-Lert # 365 / Cyberavis no. 365
Friday February 26, 2010 / le vendredi 26 février
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Letter from CARL to the Honourable Peter Van Loan, Minister of International Trade, regarding the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) PDF
CARL Letter in support of the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) initiative PDF
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Lettre de l'ABRC à l'honorable Peter Van Loan, Ministre
du Commerce international, au sujet de l’Accord commercial relatif
à la contrefaçon (ACRC) PDF
Lettre d'appui de l'ABRC pour l'initiative Sponsoring Consortium
for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3)
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NEWS / NOUVELLES
Google, roi du Web, fait l'objet d'une série d'attaques sur ses pratiques concurrentiellesCécile Ducourtieux et Laurence Girard
Le Monde, 25 février 2010
« Les attaques contre Google s'accumulent. En particulier en
Europe. Mercredi 24 février, trois de ses dirigeants, dont David
Drummond, l'un de ses vice-présidents, ont été
condamnés à de la prison avec sursis par un tribunal de Milan
pour "violation de la vie privée". Le même jour,
Bruxelles a indiqué avoir demandé des explications au géant
américain de l'Internet dans le cadre de plaintes déposées
par trois concurrents. »
http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2010/02/25/google-roi-du-web-fait-l-objet-d-une-serie-d-attaques-sur-ses-pratiques-concurrentielles_1311221_651865.html
Online archive of UK science launches
BBC News, February 24, 2010
The British Library has begun a project to build a vast, online oral history
and archive
of British science. The three-year project will see 200 British scientists
interviewed and their recollections recorded for the audio library.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8533640.stm
Lise Bissonnette honorée par la Fondation pour le journalisme
canadien
Mélissa Guillemette
Le Devoir, 24 février 2010
L'ancienne directrice du Devoir [et plus récemment de Biblitheque et Archives nationales du Québec – BanQ] Lise Bissonnette recevra un important prix de la Fondation pour le journalisme canadien, qui salue cette journaliste «juste» et «mesurée». Le prix Couronnement de carrière est remis chaque année à une personnalité qui a contribué au journalisme et à la société, et qui sert de modèle. À ce chapitre, la candidature de Mme Bissonnette a fait l'unanimité au sein du jury. «Lise Bissonnette est une journaliste, une universitaire et une administratrice admirable, a commenté le président du jury, Geoffrey Stevens, par voie de communiqué. Pas moins de huit doctorats honorifiques d'universités canadiennes et états-uniennes ont récompensé son travail.»
Europeana on-line library should be enlarged, but still respect
copyright, say MEPs
February 23, 2010
The Culture and Education Committee said in a unanimously approved report
that the EU's Europeana on-line library, museum and archive needs content
from more member states now and EU budget funding from 2013. Intellectual
property rights must be respected, but digitization should not restrict
access to Europe's public heritage, warn MEPs. The Europeana project aims
to make Europe's cultural and scientific heritage accessible to the world
on the internet.*
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/expert/infopress_page/037-69352-054-02-09-906-20100223IPR69351-23-02-2010-2010-false/default_en.htm
Thousands of authors opt out of Google book settlement
Alison Flood
The Guardian, February 23, 2010
Authors who did not wish their books to be part of Google's revised settlement
needed to opt out before 28 January, in advance of Judge Denny Chin’s
ruling over whether to allow Google to go ahead with its divisive plans
to digitize millions of books. The
judge ended up delaying his ruling, after receiving over 500 written
submissions, but court
documents related to the case show that more than 6,500 authors, publishers
and literary agents have opted out of the settlement.*
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/23/authors-opt-out-google-book-settlement
Technology Giants Defend Canadian Copyright Law
Michael Geist
Toronto Star, February 22, 2010
Each April, the United States issues the Special 301 Report which examines
the intellectual property laws of its main trading partners, and which for
the past 15 years has included Canada on a watch list of countries the U.S.
believes need reforms. As the U.S. prepares the 2010 edition, comments on
the process and the link between intellectual property and trade policy
have been invited. Among the hundreds of submissions, one from the Computer
and Communications Industry Association stands out as critically important
to Canada. The CCIA warns that including Canada on the list of countries
that need reforms undermines the credibility of the process, adding "Canada's
current copyright law and practice clearly satisfy the statutory adequate
and effective standard. Indeed, in a number respects, Canada's laws are
more protective of creators than those of the United States." *
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/technology/lawbytes/article/769237--geist-technology-giants-defend-canada-s-copyright-law
In a digital world, why is our visual history being lost?
Eric Veillete
Toronto Star, February 21, 2010
A grassroots
movement, short on money, is trying to preserve ephemeral but crucial
fragments of our past. So far, its best bet is YouTube.
http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/768885--in-a-digital-world-why-is-our-visual-history-being-lost
Une entreprise de Rimouski à l'assaut de l'iPad d'Apple
Bruno Guglielminetti
Le Devoir, 15 février 2010
« Depuis le début janvier, plusieurs fabricants d'ordinateurs annoncent tour à tour leur arrivée dans le marché de la tablette informatique. Déjà HP, Dell, ACER et Apple ont tous présenté des prototypes d'appareils qui seront sur le marché d'ici l'été. Mais parallèlement aux grands joueurs, d'autres, plus petits, proposent des solutions de remplacement. Parmi elles, l'une en provenance du Québec, plus particulièrement de Rimouski, attise la curiosité. »
Open Access Fund established at Simon Fraser University
February 17, 2010
At its January 2010 meeting, the SFU Senate Library Committee adopted sweeping
recommendations that will make SFU one of only three Canadian universities
to embrace Open Access (OA) publishing. “We’re going to put
our money where our mouth is,” says Gwen Bird, Associate University
Librarian, Collections Services. Beginning in February 2010, SFU is creating
an OA Central Fund to encourage SFU authors to publish in OA journals. The
fund will pay the article processing charges for SFU authors who lack other
sources to cover these fees. It’s all part of the Library’s
new Open Access Strategy, which includes: continuing support for the Public
Knowledge Project and its open source software to improve management and
to decrease publishing costs, further development of SFU’s Institutional
Repository where authors can share research output, including reports and
raw data, and making OA journals more accessible to SFU readers.*
http://www.lib.sfu.ca/node/10281
Governance and Recordkeeping Around the World
Library and Archives Canada,
Volume 3, Number 5, February 2010
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/007001/f2/007001-100200-e.pdf
Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter
February 2010
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201002.pdf
SPARC E-News
February 2010
http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/enews/10february.shtml
ARTICLES
Digital Books and Your Rights: A Checklist for ReadersCorynne McSherry and Cindy Cohn
Electronic Frontier Foundation, February 2010
After several years of false starts, the market for digital books finally
seems poised to expand dramatically. Readers should view this expansion
with both excitement and wariness. Excitement because digital books
could revolutionize reading, making more books more findable and more accessible
to more people in more ways than ever before. Wariness because the various
entities that will help make this digital book revolution possible may not
always respect the rights and expectations that readers, authors, booksellers
and librarians built up, and defended, over generations of experience with
physical books. McSherry and Cohn present a checklist to help answer the
overarching question throughout the article: are digital books as good or
better than physical books at protecting you and your rights as a reader?*
https://www.eff.org/files/eff-digital-books.pdf
When a University Press Falls, Who Catches Its Authors?
Jennifer Howard
The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 21, 2010
When Eastern Washington University decided last year to close its press
there was a great silence, in contrast that to the clamor that arose when
word got out that state budget cuts threatened
the existence of the Louisiana State University Press. The latter case
prompted a major intervention on the part of the literary community. The
interventions worked. LSU Press lived to publish another day, but the episode
added to the mounting evidence that literary prestige does not impress budget-minded
university administrators the way it once did.*
http://chronicle.com/article/When-a-University-Press-Falls/64303/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
The Internet in 2020-What the Experts Predict
Frederic Lardinois
The New York Times, February 19, 2010
Contrary to what some observers might believe, the majority of expert opinions
lean towards Google not making us stupid. Indeed, 76% of technology stakeholders
and critics interviewed by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American
Life Project and the Imagining
the Internet Center at Elon University believe that the Internet and
search engines will enhance human intelligence by 2020. For this new
report, the Pew Research Center conducted in-depth interviews with over
800 experts about what they think the Internet will look like in 2020.*
http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2010/02/19/19readwriteweb-the-internet-in-2020---what-the-experts-pre-15672.html
RESOURCES / RESSOURCES
Modeling Scholarly Communication Options : Cost and Benefits for UniversitiesAlma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd, February 2010
Open Access may be achieved in more than one way. This study models the
costs and benefits of Open Access by different routes and of other scholarly
communication scenarios. The shift from print journals and books to electronic
versions has been a major transformative factor in scholarly communication
over the past couple of decades. Swan also models the economic effects of
moving through the final stages to a world where journals in hard copy format
are phased out completely. The move to Open Access for research outputs
can at once both simplify access and complicate things by disrupting systems
and processes that have been in place for a very long time. Such transformation
appears worthwhile, however, even on purely economic terms. Additional,
academic returns help in outweighing the price of change.*
http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/442/1/Modelling_scholarly_communication_report_final.pdf
How to build a case for university policies and practices in support
of Open Access
Frederick Friend and Alma Swan
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), February 25, 2010
Open Access, widely adopted, can save universities money, increase the
efficiency of research operations, enable more efficient sharing of research
outputs, and provide greater visibility and impact for research programmes.
JISC has developed an economic model to help universities calculate the
costs and benefits of different modes of scholarly communication.*
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/programmerelated/2010/howtoopenaccess.aspx
A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation
K. Skinner and M. Schultz Eds
Educopia Institute, 2010
A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation is the first of a series of
volumes describing successful collaborative strategies and articulating
specific new models to help cultural memory organizations work together
for their mutual benefit. This volume is devoted to the broad topic of distributed
digital preservation, an emerging field of practice for the cultural memory
arena. The guide is written for a broad audience that includes librarians,
archivists, scholars, curators, technologists, lawyers, and administrators.
Readers will gain both a philosophical and practical understanding of the
emerging field of distributed digital preservation.*
http://www.metaarchive.org/GDDP
Digital Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Report
on User Needs
Janneke Adema and Paul Rutten
Open Access Publishing in European Networks, January 2010
In the European Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) there is fertile ground
for the development of Open Access eMonographs. Adema and Rutten suggest
an increasing number of scholars in these disciplines use digital resources
and tools in their daily research practice, in their reading, writing, and
teaching practices. Many scholars in the HSS see this newly developing form
of publishing as an important contribution to their ambition to share their
knowledge and research results with peers and other potential readers, provided
the quality control is in place. The OA scholarly monograph could present
a way out of the so-called monograph crisis which threatens the continued
existence of the monograph in its present form.*
http://www.oapen.org/images/D315%20User%20Needs%20Report.pdf
2010 Horizon Report
The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative
The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the New Media
Consortium’s Horizon Project, a long-running qualitative research
project that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely
to have a large impact on teaching, learning, research, or creative expression
within learning-focused organizations. Some of the technologies discussed
in the 2010 edition: mobile computing; open content; electronic books; visual
data analysis; and critical challenges around technology.*
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/CSD5810.pdf
Handbook for Information Literacy Teaching (HILT)
Jessica Gaunt et al
Cardiff University Library Services, August 2009
Information Literacy has been a key topic in academic library circles for
many years. The
challenge has been to persuade teaching faculty that the sacrifice of some
teaching hours to demonstrate the importance of being able to identify,
locate, retrieve, evaluate and use information effectively is well worth
while in developing learning techniques which can be used throughout life.
Although this is still not universally achieved, Cardiff University is at
the forefront of UK Universities in promoting the value of information literacy
to the academic community in various ways. The principal aims of the
Handbook are: to assist Subject Librarians, Library Operations Managers
and others with an IL role by equipping them with techniques to promote
IL, to prepare learning outcomes and deliver and evaluate appropriate learning
experiences, to help ensure consistent and high quality practices, and to
serve as a central element of staff training for IL program delivery. Each
section comprises a presentation of guidelines with references to supporting
documents, examples of good practice and relevant literature in the field.*
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/insrv/educationandtraining/infolit/hilt/HILT%202009%20pdf.pdf
EVENTS / ÉVÉNEMENTS
Digital Preservation for Digital Collaboratives WorkshopThe 1st workshop begins with three webinars - April 13, 14 and 16 (1-3 pm ET) - and continues April 28-29, in Philadelphia, PA.
One of the significant barriers to the ability of collaborative digital
initiatives to develop a long-term preservation program is a lack of educational
opportunities. Using CRL/OCLC Trustworthy Repositories Audit and Certification:
Criteria and Checklist (TRAC) as its foundation, the three-day workshop
will provide an introduction to digital preservation before focusing on
planning, assessment and digital preservation solutions. BCR will offer
additional training and support after the workshop, enabling the collaboratives
to complete their preservation plans, which may serve as models for other
organizations in the field.
http://www.bcr.org/dps/training/neh-dpdc.html
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