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From the American Historical Association, on the future of humanities journals

From Inside Higher Ed, on the problems of some peer review systems.

From the US Copyright Office on the Google Book Settlement.

From the New York Times

Some concerns about the Google settlement from authors at the University of California

From Inside Higher Ed, a look at how open sources could change higher education in the future

From Times Higher Education (UK) on the dangers of the current journal publishing system to scientific communication.

From Peter Hirtle of Cornell University on the effect of the Google Books Settlement on Libraries

From Inside Higher Ed about the implications of Google Books for academic institutions

An article from First Monday about using Lakoff's theories to construct successful narratives that discuss scholarly publishing

New trends in digital scholarship and scholarly publication

A new introduction to modern copyright law

From the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

An article by James Boyle of Duke University about building an internet architecture for scholarship

An issue of Economic Analyis and Policy which, among other things, discusses the issues of open access publishing

A discussion about the role of scholarly publishing in an age of increased intellectual property rights

Slides and video of presentation at Columbia by Christine Borgman from UCLA

A post about different theories of intellectual property, particularly in reference to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) policy

An interview with Kevin Rose (founder of digg.com) and Trent Reznor (from the band Nine Inch Nails).  The very first question is about digital business models for music, which interestingly has many interesting parallels to scholarship.

From a former University of Toronto Press executive

More from Lisa Spiro at Rice University about developments in digital humanities in 2008

Draft roadmap from Europe for science data infrastructure

A report on how to promote the next generation of digital scholarship

A summary of events in scholarly communication, particularly those that apply to the humanities

By Robert Darnton.  Found in the New York Review of Books.

A report on how scholars use information, and the implications for libraries.

From Educause - This bibliography is a list publications collected to specifically provide a higher education perspective on cyberinfrastructure, e-research, and e-scholarship.

University of California libraries and Springer sign pilot agreement for open access journal publishing

About the latest panels on Digital Scholarship in the Humanities from the Modern Language Association conference

Humanities e-publishing at University of Houston - Victoria

The Google Book search legal agreement and its impact on society

The economic importance of peer review in scholarly publishing

From Inside Higher Ed on the Digital Millenium copyright act and its exemptions

A flow chart showing how to demonstrate compliance with NIH open access policy.

From  the Harvard University Gazette

The Business of Academic Publishing: A Strategic Analysis of the Academic Journal Publishing Industry and its Impact on the Future of Scholarly Publishing

From Peter McPherson, President, National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, on the purpose of copyright in the academy

Digital academic publishing from the commercial point of view

From the Center for Social Media at American University

A paper discussing the legal and technical issues of digital libraries, and refers to the recent Google settlement

An article comparing the market for scholarly articles to the market for used cars

A report on digital scholarship and scholarly communication from Ithaka

From Paul Courant, University Librarian at the University of Michigan, part of a new book called The Tower and the Cloud put out by Educause

A Harvard professor and his students are questioning the underlying philosophy behind RIAA's lawsuits

From David Drummond, Chief Legal Counsel for Google

From Google, more on the agreement and what it means

The Authors' Guild, Association of American Publishers, and Google have reached an agreement on digitization of books

From the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a report summarizing the failures of the last ten years with the Digital Millenium Copyright Act

From Mark Kornbluh, director of Matrix at Michigan State University

An interview with James Grimmelman, technologist and legal scholar

From the Wall Street Journal

A recent court ruling on use of thumbnails in search engines

Reactions to the American Anthropological Association's recent decision to have open access after a 35 year embargo

Springer will be buying BioMed Central (an open access publisher).

From the Public Library of Science by Neal S. Young, John P. A. Ioannidis, and Omar Al-Ubaydli

A paper from Richard Johnson of the Association for Research Libraries (ARL) on digitizing library materials.

A paper from Glenn Ellison, an economist at MIT

Cory Doctorow's book Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future is available here for free download under a Creative Commons U.S. Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.

An analysis on the many recent comments about the NIH open access policy

From Cameron Neylon at the Department of Chemistry, University of Southampton

On the potential implications of the Thomson Reuters/Zotero case

The "Orphan Works" (where it is difficult, or impossible, to find a copyright holder) is now stalled until at least after the November elections.

A letter to Chairman Conyers about addressing the legalities of publishers concerns about the NIH deposit mandate

Thomson Reuters has sued George Mason University over the Zotero citation management tool

About the possibilities of Open Access Publishing in Chemistry.

A project that provides open access tools to the work of Shakespeare

From John Willinsky of the Public Knowledge Project at Stanford University

The PRO-IP Act has passed the Senate, though without a provision that would allow the Justice Department the ability the bring civil suits against infringers

A bill to enable use of copyrighted works when the owner cannot be found has now passed the Senate.  It has yet to be voted on by the House.

Penn State Press and Libraries come together for digital publishing

Penn Libraries are participating in Open Access Day.  More info here, and we'd like your ideas on potential ways to celebrate it.

What will a networked history book look like in the electronic age?

An interview with Matthew Cockerill of BioMed Central

An article from New York Magazine

From Nature news on releasing experimental data before publication

More about Flatworld Knowledge's business model for open-source textbooks

Academia.edu is a social networking site that seeks to capture activity going on in scholarly fields.

New York Times article about textbook market

An article placing the Harry Potter decision in terms of the Fair Use factors

Latest news of Pro-IP, PIRATE, and Enforcement of Intellectual Property Acts

Notes on a talk given by James Boyle, Professor of Law at Duke University, on copyright and the cultural economy.

A summary of 3 possible copyright bills coming up in congress

A clarification on copyright as it applies to works created by the government

An article about a report from McGill University which looks at how intellectual property laws seem to stifle innovation

Article by Clifford Lynch of the Coalition for Networked Information

Stanford's response to Harry Potter Lexicon Fair Use decision

An article about publishing and authorship in the digital age

Article about copyright of secondary works on Harry Potter series

An interesting review about the future of education initiatives for scholarly communication

Article from Wired about the possibilities of open access textbooks

An article from Inside Higher Ed about using technology for historical research

An article about how the internet could change the way scientists do their work

Interesting article from the LA times about copyright of Mickey Mouse

Letters to the NIH objecting to parts of the policy, and NIH's response

Some analysis of recent copyright cases

An interesting article about copyright and the playing of national anthems at the olympics in Beijing

Judge Rules That Content Owners Must Consider Fair Use Before Sending Takedowns

A Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) report on the future of research libraries

An article about the costs of publishing textbooks and possible alternatives.

About the benefits of Open Science to scholarship

More information on some recent legal cases regarding open source licenses, like Creative Commons

A summary of Lisa Spiro's (Director of Digital Media Center, Rice University) talk on digital scholarship at the Association for Computing in the Humanities

Reports from the latest JISC/CNI Meeting on Transforming the User Experience

Good summary of NIH mandate's impact on publishers

Microsoft now working to create scholarship tools

Mellon Foundation comments on scholarly publishing, particularly for monographs and university presses

Using a clip to criticize Michael Savage's comments is considered "fair use"

A new bill to enforce intellectual property rights in the senate

An article about whether we're looking at the right things (published articles) when we discuss scholarly communication

A suite of scholarly communication tools created by Microsoft

A guide to cyberlaw, including intellectual property