From the monthly archives: March 2011
Name Sanford G. Thatcher
Title Director Emeritus
Organization Penn State University Press
address 8201 Edgewater Drive, Frisco, TX 75034
phone 214-705-1939
email sandy.thatcher@alumni.princeton.edu
website http://www.psupress.org/news/SandyThatchersWritings.html
Born and lived: Washington, DC 8/4/43 Lived in NE Pennsylvania from age 4 until college
early life: attended Wyoming Seminary [...]
Read More... →What are you thoughts on the Google Book Settlement?
Dennis Brunning said “Thank You, Judge Chin” in our Hot Topic of the Week last Friday. Rick Anderson kept score on the Scholarly Kitchen in his post “Google Book Settlement – Opponents 1, Google 0,” and there will be a free webinar titled [...]
Read More... →On Wednesday, March 30th at 12PM ET, copyright expert Lois Wasoff will join Chris Kenneally for a special webinar “Unraveling the Rejection” by Copyright Clearance Center examining the decision by Judge Denny Chin to reject the Google Books Settlement. Lois and Chris will discuss what the decision means for those affected by the proposed settlement, [...]
Read More... →ATG Article of the Week, March 29, 2011
Steal this E-Book by Jon Bruner. Forbes, April 11, 2011, pg. 24 (print issue).
This is actually a one-page interview (two pages on the Web) with Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media. O’Reilly has dropped DRM on all his titles. O’Reilly says if he sells 10,000 copies and [...]
Read More... →Picked this up from The Scholarly Kitchen, SSP’s fabulous blog. http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/ The Association of College and Research Libraries is going to make College & Research Libraries freely available to all readers effective April 1 and this is not an April Fool’s joke. The post on Scholarly Kitchen is from the astute Phil Davis who [...]
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