Academic libraries lend print books all the time. But rights restrictions have made it very difficult for them to lend ebook files to patrons at other institutions. Occam's Reader, a pilot project led by the Greater Western Library Alliance with the cooperation of Springer publishers, is trying out software built to let libraries share ebook files without making publishers nervous. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
Journalism
“Academic Center Offers Peer Review, Face to Face”
Authors come to GMU's Mercatus Center for intensive, face-to-face workshops with their peers. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
“Dispute Over Who Will Publish an Academic Journal Goes to Court”
Sometimes one word makes all the difference. A dispute over a clause in a publishing contract has landed a small scholarly association and the parent institution of a major university press in court, battling over who owns the intellectual rights to the association’s journal. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
Review: “‘Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When Nobody Has the Time,’ by Brigid Schulte”
In which I think about all the demands on our time-- When did we get so busy? For many of us, life unspools as a never-ending to-do list. Wake up, pack lunches, get the kids to school, get ourselves to our jobs, work all day, collect the kids, make dinner, supervise homework, do the laundry, walk the dog, pay the bills, answer e-mail, crawl into bed for a few fitful hours of sleep, wake up already exhausted, then do it all over again. Weekends, which ought to be oases of leisure, have their own hectic rhythms: errands, chores, sports events, grocery shopping, exercise. Dispatch one task and six more take its place, a regenerating zombie army of obligations. --and what we can do about it. Read More at The Washington Post »
“In Wake of Traumas, Digital Archives Gather Crowds”
Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, online community archives have become a place to gather and heal as well as to collect historically useful evidence. The latest example is Our Marathon, a crowdsourced database of stories, images, and social-media mementos of the April 15, 2013 bombings at the Boston Marathon. Our Marathon is the creation of a team at Northeastern University's NULab. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
