Scholarly Communications @ UC Irvine

Friday, May 8, 2009

A few brief articles about what is happening with Google Books:

Corner Office: Google's Dan Clancy
As the Google Book Search settlement deadline looms, the company's point man talks about pricing, orphan works, and the role of libraries
By Andrew Richard Albanese & Norman Oder -- Library Journal, 5/1/2009
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6652445.html

Snags Hit Google Settlement With Authors and Publishers, and Antitrust Worries Rise
Jennifer Howard - Wired Campus, Chronicle of Higher Education, April 29, 2009.
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3739/delays-beset-google-settltment-as-judge-extends-deadlines-and-justice-dept-steps-in

Library Associations Ask Judge to Assert Vigorous Oversight of Proposed Google Book Search Settlement
ARL (Association of Research Libraries) - Press Releases & Announcements, May 4, 2009
http://www.arl.org/news/pr/google-4may09.shtml

The 11th Annual Digital Libraries Symposium, in Denver (ALA Midwinter Conference) in January 2009, addressed "Next Gen Librarians: Who Are They & What Do They Want?"

http://www.elsevier.com/librarians/multimedia

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/librariansinfo.librarians/libr_multimedia

and this is the relevant audio file.
http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/multimedia/12-200901-digital-library-symposium.mp3

A video of the panel presentation: "Open Science: Good for Research, Good for Researchers?" that took place at Columbia University on February 19, 2009. The video is up on the Scholarly Communication Program site at: http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/open-science-good-research-good-researchers

Panelists: Jean-Claude Bradley, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Coordinator of E-Learning for the School of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University;
Barry Canton, founder of Ginkgo BioWorks and the OpenWetWare wiki
Bora Zivkovic, Online Discussion Expert for the Public Library of Science (PLoS) and author of "A Blog Around the Clock."

Slides and Links:

Bora Zivkovic's links