July 2010

Antitrust suit brought against OCLC

by mslevine July 29, 2010

SkyRiver, LLC, a library cataloging service, filed an antitrust lawsuit against OCLC in the Northern District of California on July 28, 2010.  The suit alleges anti-competitive and monopolistic behavior.  OCLC recently caused controversy in the library community by proposing a revised use policy that would have required libraries to be restrictive in the use of ...

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Federal Research Public Access Act

by Greg Grossmeier July 28, 2010

The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Policy, the Census and National Archives announced it will hold a hearing on the issue of public access to federally funded research on Thursday, July 29. The hearing is open and public. The hearing notice says that, “The hearing will examine ...

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Philosopher's Imprint Publishes Two New Articles

by rebecca July 28, 2010

Philosopher’s Imprint, one of SPO’s longest running open access journals, published two new articles today. “Ceteris Paribus Laws: Generics and Natural Kinds,” by Bernhard Nickel, Harvard University and “PSR,” by Michael Della Rocca, Yale University. Philosophers’ Imprint is a refereed series of original papers in philosophy, edited by Stephen Darwall and J. David Velleman, with ...

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Some New Staff Members

by kevin July 27, 2010

Alix Keener joined the staff of the Scholarly Publishing Office half-time on Monday, June 7th, complementing her existing half-time appointment at the University of Michigan Press. Alix works as a digital project assistant at SPO with a primary focus on helping to manage SPO’s ongoing work in support of Humanities E-Book. The Text Creation Partnership, ...

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1201 Anti Circumvention Exemptions

by Greg Grossmeier July 26, 2010

New exemptions to anti circumvention were announced on July 26 by the US Copyright Office. Much anticipated and worth reading – they are astonishingly reasonable and helpful for educational, scholarly, and university needs. They include a DVD exemption that includes fair use-type uses explicitly, an exemption for e-book accessibility, an exemption for obsolete security technology, ...

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Contributions to Digital Publishing Standards

by kevin July 23, 2010

Kevin Hawkins, SPO’s electronic publishing librarian, is serving as an invited expert on the EPUB Metadata Subgroup of the EPUB 2.1 Working Group, providing the perspective of the TEI Council (on which he serves) and of libraries. He is also co-editing Best Practices for TEI in Libraries, revisions of which are nearly complete.

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A Conversation with Stephen Salant, Creator of 'Successful Strategic Deception: A Case Study'

by rebecca July 14, 2010

Stephen W. Salant, professor of economics at University of Michigan, is the creator of Successful Strategic Deception: A Case Study, recently published by SPO.  The project features a new analysis of the controversial case against Alger Hiss, a  U.S. State Department official suspected of spying for the Soviet Union, and ultimately convicted of perjury in ...

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UM Professor Reveals "Spy-Catcher" in 1950 Alger Hiss Case: Explore the Argument and the Evidence in a New Digital Archive

by rebecca July 13, 2010

The Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library is pleased to announce the publication of Successful Strategic Deception: A Case Study, a digital publication featuring a new analysis of the controversial case against Alger Hiss, a  U.S. State Department official suspected of spying for the Soviet Union, and ultimately convicted of perjury in ...

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EBM and Enriching Scholarship

by terri July 12, 2010

During this year’s week-long Enriching Scholarship program, I taught a session entitled The Espresso Book Machine: Using Print on Demand as a Teacher and Author. The class included an overview of how the machine works, how it can be used to benefit UM faculty and students, and concluded with a book printing demonstration. Here’s a ...

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Library Lending Rights At Risk

by Greg Grossmeier July 8, 2010

The first sale doctrine is an aspect of copyright law that permits libraries to lend books and other materials. There is some alarm although the right is being eroded in the arena of ebooks – as ebooks are subject to licenses that define whether and how the consumer may transfer or share ebooks. The Library Copyright Alliance ...

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