Excerpts from the Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Newsletter October 5, 2001
* The federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded $3.5 million to 18 libraries to digitize some of their collections and put them on the internet free of charge. http://www.imls.gov/whatsnew/current/092501-4.htm * ITPapers.com is a new archive of white papers in information technology. Users must register, but registration is free of charge. ITPapers offers free online access to 23,000+ white papers. http://itpapers.com/ * The Resource Discovery Network (RDN) invites all its users to fill out a web questionnaire. It will remain online until late November or early December. All who participate will be entered in a drawing for Amazon gift certificates. http://www.rdn.ac.uk/evaluation/ * in the October issue of _Learned Publishing_, Joost Kircz argues that an electronic scientific articles is not merely a print article in a new medium. We should rethink the nature and purpose of the scientific publications in light of the opportunities offered by the new medium. He discusses 10 criteria for scientific publications (formulated by an international working group in 2000) and argues that they leave much room to create "new ways of expressing knowledge" in an electronic, interactive medium. Part 2 of his study will appear in the next issue. http://ernesto.catchword.com/vl=87878194/cl=32/nw=1/fm=docpdf/rpsv/catchword/alpsp/09531513/v14n4/s4/p265 * Also in the October issue of _Learned Publishing_, Edwin Shelock criticizes the ALPSP and learned societies for failing to take advantage of opportunities created by the internet for wide and inexpensive dissemination of scholarship. He asks why learned societies think more like commercial publishers than their own members. Shelock is past chair of the ALPSP. http://ernesto.catchword.com/vl=87878194/cl=32/nw=1/fm=docpdf/rpsv/catchword/alpsp/09531513/v14n4/s9/p299 * In the October issue of _Cultivate Interactive_, Thibault Heuzé summarizes the many projects of the EU's Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS) for promoting access to online research. http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/cordis/ * The September 20 _Economist_ describes the Stanford Archival Vault (SAV), Stanford's new P2P network of digital repositories. http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=779564 * In the August/September issue of SPARC's e-news, Ed Sponsler and Eric F. Van de Velde review the eprints.org software for creating OAI-compliant archives, based on the CalTech Library's eight month experience with it. The authors endorse the software and describe in good detail how to implement and take full advantage of it. http://www.arl.org/sparc/pubs/enews/aug01.html#6 * In the latest (2001 but undated) _Educause Quarterly_, Joseph Moxley argues that universities should join the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), which would provide free online access to this large and useful body of literature. http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eqm0139.pdf * Summer School on the Digital Library 2001: Electronic Publishing http://cwis.kub.nl/~ticer/summer01/course3/ Florence, October 7-12 * Frankfurt Book Fair, How To Implement DOIs http://www.doi.org/news/010926-Frankfurt.html Frankfurt, October 10 * Frankfurt Book Fair, Financing Possibilities for Digital Content http://www.cordis.lu/econtent/frankfurt_101001.htm Frankfurt, October 10 * IT in the Transformation of the Library http://www.lita.org/forum01/index.htm Milwaukee, October 11-14 * Collections & Access for the 21st Century Scholar: A Forum to Explore the Roles of the Research Library http://www.arl.org/forum/index.html Washington, D.C., October 19-20 * Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy http://ip.nationalacademies.org/calendar.php?id=94 Washington, D.C., October 22 * International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2001 http://www.nii.ac.jp/dc2001/ Tokyo, October 22-26 * e-Book Lessons: From Life-Cycle to User Experiences http://www.sspnet.org/public/articles/details.cfm?id=181 Waltham, Massachusetts, October 23 * Fourth Meeting of the [NAS] Committee on Intellectual Property Rights (only parts are open to the public) http://ip.nationalacademies.org/calendar.php?id=322 Washington, D.C., October 23-24 * Copyright Issues in the Electronic Age http://www.sspnet.org/public/articles/details.cfm?id=181 Waltham, Massachusetts, October 29 * Paperless Publishing: Peer Review, Production, and Publication http://www.sspnet.org/public/articles/details.cfm?id=181 Washington, D.C., October 30 * The XML Revolution: What Scholarly Publishers Need to know http://www.sspnet.org/public/articles/details.cfm?id=181 Waltham, Massachusetts, November 1 * Information in a Networked World: Harnessing the Flow http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM01/index.html Washington D.C., November 2-8 * Content Summit 01 http://www.contentsummit.com/ Zurich, November 7-9 * Internet Librarian 2001 http://www.infotoday.com/il2001/ Pasadena, November 6-8 * First Annual Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium http://www.tei-c.org/Publicity/pisa.html Pisa, November 16-17 * Digital Media Revolution in the Americas http://www.iamericas.org/events/eventlist.html Pasadena, November 29 - December 1 ========== FOS home page, general information, subscriptions, editorial position, feedback form http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/index.htm FOS Newsletter, subscriptions, back issues http://www.topica.com/lists/suber-fos FOS Discussion Forum, subscriptions, postings http://www.topica.com/lists/fos-forum Guide to the FOS Movement http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/guide.htm Peter Suber http://www.earlham.edu/~peters Copyright (c) 2001, Peter Suber http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/copyrite.htm