The Authors Guild, two foreign authors' groups, and a handful of individual authors sue the HathiTrust digital repository and five universities over the mass digitization of books. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
Journalism
“A Google Maps for the Scholarly Landscape?”
A podcast in which I chat about the the possibilities of using citation data to develop new ways of mapping and recommending research. This is part of a new Chronicle series called AfterWord, which features reporters talking about stories they've worked on. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
“HathiTrust and Google Will Help Duke U. Press Digitize a Trove of Older Titles”
“Citation by Citation, New Maps Chart Hot Research and Scholarship’s Hidden Terrain”
“JSTOR Opens Up U.S. Journal Content From Before 1923”
The group says the decision was not prompted by the outcry over the arrest of hacktivist Aaron Swartz on charges related to unathorized downloads of millions of JSTOR files. Read More at Wired Campus (CHE) »
