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2 New Digital Models Promise Academic Publishing for Profit

October 2, 2008

"Scholarly publishers are well aware that more and more readers and libraries want to get hold of monographs in electronic form. The trick has been how to deliver content digitally without g…

7 Things You Should Know About Creative Commons

March 15, 2007

Creative Commons is an alternative to traditional copyright, devel¬oped by a nonprofit organization of the same name. By default, most original works are protected by copyright, which confers sp…

7 Things You Should Know About Open Educational Resources

May 27, 2010

Open educational resources (OER) are any resources available at little or no cost that can be used for teaching, learning, or research. The term can include textbooks, course readings, and other …

A Review of the Open Educational Resources Movement: Achievement, Challenges and New Opportunities

February 27, 2007

This report examines The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s past investments in Open Educational Resources, the emerging impact and explores future opportunities.  Central to the report …

Acquiring Copyright Permission to Digitize and Provide Open Access to Books

January 1, 2005

What are the stumbling blocks to digitization? Is copyright law a major barrier? Is it easier to negotiate with some types of publishers than with others? To what extent does the age of the materia…

CNI Podcast: Michael Seadle on National Hosting and Interoperability: The LuKII Project in Germany

December 29, 2010

In this interview, Michael Seadle, Dean and Principle Investigator on the LuKII Project at Humboldt-Universität Berlin, talks about the policy and technical issues involved in this interoperabil…

CNI Podcast: Mira Waller on Helping Small and Independent Publishers with Project Euclid

December 16, 2010

Beginning in 2000, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Cornell University Library initiated a not-for-profit publishing program to help small and independent publishers of math and…

CNI Podcast: Sue Kriegsman on Open Access Policies at Harvard

April 16, 2010

So far, five schools at Harvard University have adopted open access policies for scholarly publishing. In this conversation, Sue Kriegsman , Program Manager for the Office for Scholarly Commun…

Course check: A conversation with three open access publishers about the challenges of sustainability

June 25, 2007

SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and ACRL (the Association of College and Research Libraries) today announced that the topic of the upcoming SPARC-ACRL Forum on e…

Defining “Noncommercial”: A Study of How the Online Population Understands “Noncommercial Use”

September 18, 2009

This report details the results of a research study launched in September 2008 to explore differences between commercial and noncommercial uses of content found online, as those uses are understo…