The major change in the way library stores and maintains knowledge came with the advent of computers and new technologies. Further, origin of Internet and the development of World Wide Web (WWW) have opened up new vista for communication of scholarly information and helping Libraries to create and maintain information through Libraries’ W…[Read more]

As we begin to see the discussion of open publishing, open textbooks, and open educational resources break open on campus, it’s important that those of us who want to participate in open access are up to date on all of the resources, venues, and opportunities for publishing or otherwise disseminating our work. This workshop will re-familiarize p…[Read more]

As we begin to see the discussion of open publishing, open textbooks, and open educational resources break open on campus, it’s important that those of us who want to participate in open access are up to date on all of the resources, venues, and opportunities for publishing or otherwise disseminating our work. This workshop will re-familiarize p…[Read more]

This session compares major topics from scholarly communication and trends in Hip-Hop, with the objective of providing lessons and examples for effective teaching. By discussing Hip-Hop artists as impact-minded authors of copyrighted works navigating a marketplace newly-disrupted by Internet technology, it may be possible for students to bring…[Read more]

Article about the KU Leuven Fund for Fair OA, which provides financial support for publishing in non-profit OA.

The rationale behind this research was the quest to explore the policies, practices, techniques and strategies for audiovisual and digital media in developing countries experiencing tropical climates, given the fact that countries in developing countries are lagging behind in technology due to the cost attached to the implementation of…[Read more]

“In capitalism, institutional libraries, publishers and book traders all have ways to suppress the publishing of, the access to or the distribution of texts and books — rigidities inviting for creative subversion.”

This chapter written in the form of a dialogue presents an informal conversation between Eva Weinmayr and her inner voice about a…[Read more]

A manifesto for a radically open publishing commons; an expansion of remarks originally presented on a panel devoted to independent open-access academic publishing at the 2nd Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group (Boston, Massachusetts, 20-22 Sep. 2012).

An Open Letter & petition, with signatures, from punctum books to The New Press and Verso Books (UK), relative to their recent compilations (in print and e-book form) of Aaron Swartz’s selective collected writings, “The Boy Who Could Change the World,” in which the undersigned ask Verso and The New Press to reverse and repair this unfortunate…[Read more]

In 1860, the newly-appointed librarian of the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward, drew up a series of ambitious plans aimed at reforming the organisation and administration of the collection. The work carried out on the library during this period included the introduction of a subject-based classification system and the…[Read more]

The aim of this study is to investigate whether library and information service provision changes in commercial law firms that have adopted agile working policies. Whilst there are many management texts on agile working there is very little that looks at libraries, and what there is mainly deals with the academic sector. As agile working is…[Read more]

Open Peer Review and Open Citations need advocates. Open Access recently received significant boosts in organized support (Redalyc announcing AmerliCA; cOAlition-S announcing Plan S). Within a similar timeframe, two other events occurred that need coordinated consideration: the ASAPbio group issued a letter in favor of Open Peer Review (OPR), and…[Read more]

Hip-Hop music, business, distribution, and culture exhibit highly-comparable trends in the scholarly communication and publication industry. This article discusses Hip-Hop artists and research authors as content creators, each operating within marketplaces still adjusting to digital, online connectivity. These discussions are intended for…[Read more]

The real world, as we experience it today, is intimately connected with technological mediation. Drawing on theories of post-humanism, onlife, the infosphere, and audience participation, this paper addresses how the cultural, social and political beliefs of participants in immersive theatre can be trans-ed. The relationality inherent in the term…[Read more]

Die Präsentation gibt einen Überblick über die Aktivitäten im Zusammenhang mit Open Access an der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien und ihrem institutionellen Repositorium ]a[repository. Im ersten Teil wird auf die Fragen “Was kann hier veröffentlicht werden?” und “Wie können Hochschulschriften und andere Publikationen im Akadem…[Read more]

Presented at the Creative Commons Global Summit, in Lisbon, 2019, this presentation highlights the importance of options for retaining copyright for authors especially in the context of new university and funder OA policies that require faculty to retain some rights to make works openly accessible. The session will explore considerations that went…[Read more]

Assignment completed for module INM303 Information Organisation.
A proposed outline taxonomy structure, displayed hierarchically, for an allotment website. It shows nine top terms with the hierarchy completed to the lowest level for one of the terms and this section is also shown as a thesaurus fragment. The remaining top terms are shown up to…[Read more]

Open access publishing (OA) not only removes price and permission restrictions to academic research, but also represents an opportunity to reassess what publishing means to the humanities. OA is increasingly on the agenda for humanities researchers in the UK, having been mandated in various forms by universities and governmental funders strongly…[Read more]

This research will attempt to evaluate how the thinking of Floridi, especially his emphasis on information, could in some way affect the way we approach art practice. It rests upon an existing body of study about art practice, pursued through a selective literature review of the works of Floridi. As artists rediscover the notion of participation,…[Read more]

The report takes a brief look into Lai Yung-Hsiang’s New Classification Scheme for Chinese Libraries. I will start by giving a short account of its histories and context followed by its current status and use, as well as a description of its basic principles. In particular, I would like to compare it with Liu Guojun’s classification for Chinese…[Read more]