In February, the US Office of Science and Technology Policy “directed Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D expenditures to develop plans to make the published results of federally funded research freely available to the public within one year of publication and requiring researchers to better account [...]]]> http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/06/hot-topics-of-the-week-2/feed/ 0 http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/05/hot-topics-of-the-week/ http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/05/hot-topics-of-the-week/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 19:19:35 +0000 hindsl http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=28781 by Jonathan H. Harwell, Rollins College

In case you haven’t yet explored the Digital Public Library of America, the Guardian has a nice rundown, including some of the DPLA’s ideas for the future, such as the “authors’ alliance” and the “library licence.”

By the way, several years ago I saw Harper Lee being [...]]]> http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/05/hot-topics-of-the-week/feed/ 0 http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/04/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-9/ http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/04/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-9/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:03:32 +0000 hindsl http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=27615 by Jonathan H. Harwell, Rollins College

Today I have for you a smorgasbord o’ delights from the past few weeks.  Read on  – you’ll be glad you did.

On March 20, Charles Piot, Editor of Cultural Anthropology, held an online discussion with Brad Weiss, President of the Society for Cultural Anthropology (a [...]]]> http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/04/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-9/feed/ 0 http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/03/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-8/ http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/03/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-8/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:40:34 +0000 hindsl http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=26386 by Jonathan H. Harwell, Rollins College

Lots going on!  And the news waits for no one.  So here’s the hottest topic of the moment, as well as some other notes I’m catching up on.

Shazam!  The Supreme Court has just upheld the right of first sale.  Here’s the opinion, for all you [...]]]> http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/03/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-8/feed/ 1 http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/03/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-7/ http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/03/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-7/#comments Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:34:07 +0000 hindsl http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=25635 by Jonathan H. Harwell, Rollins College

That Edwin Mellen Press legal dispute with a librarian?  They’re dropping one, possibly both, of those lawsuits.

On Feb. 22, the US Office of Science and Technology Policy issued a memo urging publishers toward open access for federally funded research.  Meredith Schwartz explains how this [...]]]> http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/03/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-7/feed/ 0 http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/02/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-6/ http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/02/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-6/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:51:33 +0000 hindsl http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=25027 by Jonathan H. Harwell, Rollins College

Amherst College Press is getting into the swing of [...]]]> http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/02/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-6/feed/ 0 http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/02/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-5/ http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/02/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-5/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:32:37 +0000 hindsl http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=24539 by Jonathan H. Harwell, Rollins College

Richard Price of Academia.edu is predicting that altmetrics will kill the scientific journal.  Projects like Rubriq might affect them too.  The Scholarly Kitchen has an interview with Rubriq’s co-founder Keith Collier about how they’re managing pre-pub peer review, “independent from journals.”

Mary Minow has http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/02/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-5/feed/ 0 http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/01/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-4/ http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/01/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-4/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:00:36 +0000 hindsl http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=23736 by Jonathan H. Harwell, Rollins College

Big week.  Did you hear that brand-new Connecticut State Rep. Brian Sear (D) introduced a bill yesterday “to require publishers of electronic books to offer e-books for sale to public and academic libraries at the same rates as offered to the general public”?

I bet you did [...]]]> http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/01/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-4/feed/ 0 http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/01/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-3/ http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/01/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-3/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:06:15 +0000 hindsl http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=23405 by Jonathan H. Harwell, Rollins College

JSTOR has officially launched its Register & Read program, which allows the public to access a limited number of articles free of charge, in exchange for their personal information.  JSTOR has also published a statement about activist Aaron Swartz, whose death has sparked a flurry of articles and [...]]]> http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/01/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-3/feed/ 0 http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/01/atg-hot-topics-nothing-new-under-the-sun/ http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/01/atg-hot-topics-nothing-new-under-the-sun/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:13:53 +0000 hindsl http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=22906 by Jonathan H. Harwell, Rollins College

Pew Internet has released a research report on e-books vs. print, based on a US readership survey from this past fall.  [...]]]> http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/01/atg-hot-topics-nothing-new-under-the-sun/feed/ 0 http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/12/atg-hot-topic-of-the-week-2/ http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/12/atg-hot-topic-of-the-week-2/#comments Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:57:47 +0000 hindsl http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=22295 by Jonathan H. Harwell, Rollins College

In the wake of last Friday’s Sandy Hook massacre, the business of publishing and library acquisitions might seem insignificant in comparison.  But please do your patrons a favor.  We challenge our librarian colleagues to take a little time today and make sure your collections are up to date on [...]]]> http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/12/atg-hot-topic-of-the-week-2/feed/ 0 http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/12/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-2/ http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/12/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-2/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:58:31 +0000 hindsl http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=21764 by Jonathan H. Harwell, Rollins College

So now that we’ve recovered from the Charleston Conference, Thanksgiving, etc., and hopefully caught up with our families and our careers as academic semesters wind down, we’re catching up on the past few weeks of news.  The following items might seem a bit random, [...]]]> http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/12/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-2/feed/ 0 http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/11/atg-hot-topic-of-the-week-the-electronic-computer-privacy-act-or-ecpa-as-it-is-affectionately-called/ http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/11/atg-hot-topic-of-the-week-the-electronic-computer-privacy-act-or-ecpa-as-it-is-affectionately-called/#comments Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:12:14 +0000 gilsont http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=21431 Protection of online privacy moves forward in bipartisan vote!

ALA’s  District Dispatch website is joining the campaign to reform the “Electronic Computer Privacy Act – or ECPA as it is affectionately called.”   Yesterday (Thursday, November 29th) the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to reform the act which was first [...]]]> http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/11/atg-hot-topic-of-the-week-the-electronic-computer-privacy-act-or-ecpa-as-it-is-affectionately-called/feed/ 0 http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/11/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-between-open-access-week-the-charleston-conference/ http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/11/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-between-open-access-week-the-charleston-conference/#comments Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:28:16 +0000 hindsl http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=20305 by Jonathan H. Harwell, Rollins College

As Hurricane Sandy kicked up sand along the US East Coast and flooded the Northeast, all while early voting was beginning in some states, Open Access Week was not the main headline last week.  But here are a few things that might [...]]]> http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/11/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-between-open-access-week-the-charleston-conference/feed/ 0 http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/10/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week/ http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/10/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:10:21 +0000 hindsl http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=19581 by Jonathan Harwell, Rollins College

Another busy week in the Land of Publishing.  Following up last week’s news about the Google Books lawsuit, we heard next that the Authors Guild’s suit against HathiTrust was thrown out.  Details and analyses are available from many sources, including Ars Technica, Wired, the Chronicle, and http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/10/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week/feed/ 0 http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/10/atg-hot-topic-of-the-week-legal-outcomes-for-google-georgia-state-and-geocaching-with-a-serial-e-book/ http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/10/atg-hot-topic-of-the-week-legal-outcomes-for-google-georgia-state-and-geocaching-with-a-serial-e-book/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:40:42 +0000 hindsl http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=19339 by Jonathan Harwell, Rollins College

After seven long years of litigation against Google for their book scanning, the Association of American Publishers has sealed a private settlement with Google.  Claire Cain Miller has the rundown of what we know so far, in the New York Times.  The common wisdom is that the lawsuit might have [...]]]> http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/10/atg-hot-topic-of-the-week-legal-outcomes-for-google-georgia-state-and-geocaching-with-a-serial-e-book/feed/ 0 http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/10/atg-hot-topic-of-the-week/ http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/10/atg-hot-topic-of-the-week/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 13:34:12 +0000 hindsl http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=19042 by Jonathan Harwell, Rollins College

News is busting out all over, just like October here in Florida (highs only in the upper 80’s!).  As we in the US prepare for the first presidential debate of 2012, here are some quick hits on the politics of information.

ALA President Maureen Sullivan has written “An Open [...]]]> http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/10/atg-hot-topic-of-the-week/feed/ 0 http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/09/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-publishers-appealing-against-georgia-state-new-open-access-platform-and-a-university-library-canceling-acs-e-journals-as-a-public-example/ http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/09/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-publishers-appealing-against-georgia-state-new-open-access-platform-and-a-university-library-canceling-acs-e-journals-as-a-public-example/#comments Tue, 25 Sep 2012 02:06:51 +0000 hindsl http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=18925 by Jonathan Harwell, Rollins College

The plaintiffs (Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press USA, and SAGE) have decided to appeal the decision in the e-reserves lawsuit against Georgia State University.  The Copyright Clearance Center is continuing to provide half of the legal fees for the plaintiffs.  Andrew Albanese has the rundown in Publishers Weekly.

The [...]]]> http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/09/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-publishers-appealing-against-georgia-state-new-open-access-platform-and-a-university-library-canceling-acs-e-journals-as-a-public-example/feed/ 0 http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/09/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-open-access-bruce-willis-alleged-e-book-price-fixing/ http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/09/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-open-access-bruce-willis-alleged-e-book-price-fixing/#comments Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:45:28 +0000 hindsl http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=18647 by Jonathan H. Harwell, Rollins College

What a week!  Springer has launched an open-access book publishing program; SAGE has published an open-access report on the future of open access in academic libraries; Campus Technology has published a feature article on open access and journal pricing; Bruce Willis might or might not be concerned [...]]]> http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/09/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-open-access-bruce-willis-alleged-e-book-price-fixing/feed/ 0 http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/08/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-hurricane-isaac-and-the-2012-us-presidential-election/ http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/08/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-hurricane-isaac-and-the-2012-us-presidential-election/#comments Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:14:40 +0000 hindsl http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=18320

by Jonathan Harwell, Rollins College

There was some major flooding from Hurricane Isaac along the Gulf Coast this past week, and Charleston also saw so much water that people took to kayaking down Market Street and right through the City Market.  (Thanks, Roberto!)  Meanwhile, libraries like ours are updating our disaster plans.  [...]]]> http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/08/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-hurricane-isaac-and-the-2012-us-presidential-election/feed/ 0