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Caught My Eye 3/5/13

On March 5, 2013 By

Here are a variety of items from a number of diverse sources including Good Ereader; Lapham’s Quarterly; the Chronicle of Higher Education; the Wall Street Journal and the New England Journal of Medicine.

Feature: Are eBook Apps, HTML5, or ePub3 the Future of Digital Publishing?  This post on Good Ereader.com by Michael Kozlowski [...]

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Caught My Eye 2/8/13

On February 9, 2013 By

 Reveal Digital Looks to Digitize Special Collections  We reported the launch of Jeff Moyer’ new company, Reveal Digital in our News & Announcements 1/25/13 .  Now, Barbara Quint in this post in Information Today elaborates on this enterprising effort to “create a network of library partners and specialty [...]

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Caught My Eye 1/30/13

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 World wide web creator sees open access future for academic publishing  According to this post in PhysOrg,  world wide web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee thinks “that the open access activists will win out” when it comes to the future of academic publishing.  He was speaking at the launch of the $40 million CSIRO’s [...]

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More Caught My Eye: 1/9/13

On January 9, 2013 By

 

Articles and posts from Information Today; the Huffington Post; Inside Higher ED; and NPR.

eLife, a New Scholarly Communication System.   This article in Information Today reports on the debut of eLife claiming that “it is different enough from the traditional mode of scholarly communication that merely calling [...]

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Caught My Eye: 1/9/13

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Oldest Southern library starts book bindery

Here is a fascinating article that highlights “the oldest library in the south” (the third oldest in the nation) and its recent efforts at starting a “book bindery to bind, by hand, new editions of historic books and repair books in its collection of tens of thousands [...]

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Caught My Eye 12/30/12

On December 30, 2012 By

Video interviews: Can print and ebooks can coexist; stats on the “great promise of mobile”; a book publishing platform in open-source; an Amazon Crackdown on book reviews and Chemistry files on Dialog.

 MediaShift . VIDEO: Can Print and E-Books Coexist? | PBS. In this post Joshua Davis of PBS’ MediaShift website [...]

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