Category: Current News: DigitalKoans Twitter Updates

• More than $14.6 Million in Federal Grants Awarded to U.S. Libraries
• Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology
• Academia.edu Raises Funds to Build a Facebook for Scientists
• $40 Million per Year to Keep Wikipedia Running
• The First Carbon Nanotube Computer
• iPhone, iPad owners Complain of Motion Sickness Due to iOS 7
• Enriching WorldCat with FAST

Digital Scholarship

• Google Books Case Appears Ready to Be Decided
• JSTOR Tries Individual Subscription Service for Researchers
• Hands-on with Kindle Fire HDX, Amazon's Next-Generation 7 and 9-inch Tablets
• Harvard Plans to Boldly Go with 'Spocs'
• The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish
• All It Takes Is Two Words to Wipe Away One of the Pillars of Free Speech Online

Digital Scholarship

• Don't Wait for Congress to Fix Fair Use, Says Judge in Google Books Case
• Review: With the iPhone 5S, Apple Lays Groundwork for a Brighter Future
• WIPO General Assembly Opens with Loaded Agenda
• Judge Appears to Back Google's Defense of Digital Books Project
• OCLC Control Numbers—Lots of Them; All Public Domain
• After One Weekend, iTunes Radio Has 11 Million Users…
• Liege University awards honorary doctorate to Stevan Harnad
• California Gives Teens an 'Eraser Button' to Hide Online Skeletons

Digital Scholarship

• Google and Authors Guild Return to Court for Fair Use Showdown
• What is Going on with Usage Restrictions on Media from Congress and the White House?
• iPhone 5S Fingerprint ID Seems to Work with Other Body Parts, Too
• Photoshop Elements 12 Review: Mobile Albums and Content-Aware Tools Dominate New Release
• E-book Sales Growth Slows in 2013
• Record Labels Lawsuit against Vimeo Lipdubs Moves Forward, with Some Good News and Some Bad News
• Time to Change Your Fingerprints: Apple's Fingerprint Scanner Already Hacked
• Oyster Offers Access Instead of Ownership
• Surface 2 Declassified: How Microsoft Made Surface into the Tablet the World Said It Wanted

Digital Scholarship

• Digital Studies Fellowship Opportunity at the Library of Congress,
• CHORUS Comes into Focus
• RIAA Wants Web Browsers to Block Pirate Sites, and More
• Implementing ORCID: Advantages and Challenges [Podcast]
• How to Cite Social Media in Scholarly Writing
• Open Access in Serbia: Interview with Biljana Kosanovic

Digital Scholarship

• Authors Guild: Wait for Congress to Sort Out Google Scanning
• Matt Cockerill to Leave BioMed Central/Springer BioMed Central Mission and Branding to Remain Unchanged
• Scholarly Kitchen Podcast: Peter Binfield on PeerJ
• iOS 7, Thoroughly Reviewed
• Deakin University Has a New OA Policy
• HarperCollins Opens Voting for BookSmash Challenge
• Pandora Scores Legal Victory against Music Publishers
• Dept. of Commerce Takes Tiny Step towards Restoring Right to Unlock Cellphones
• Does the "Three Strikes" Approach Work, In Any Sense? Here's the Evidence
• Coming Soon: Europeana Open Culture 2.0 for iPad and Android

Digital Scholarship

• 800+ Scholarly Societies Embrace Open Access. Update.
• Quantitative Comments—Highlighting Some of the Math about Finances and Profits Contributed by Readers
• Conan Doyle Estate Is Horrified That the Public Domain Might Create 'Multiple Personalities' of Sherlock Holmes
• De Gruyter's Sven Fund on the State of Open Access: Where Are We, What Still Needs to Be Done?
• Interactive Content in Scholarly Publishing
• 14 Machines That Were Brilliant in 1985

Digital Scholarship

• Making Open Pay
• Cell Internet Use 2013 [ Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project]
• OA: Teetering Toward the Tipping Point
• The Law that Gave Us the Modern Internet—and the Campaign to Kill It
• UBC Sets the Record Straight on University Spending on Copyright Materials

Digital Scholarship

• The Full Report on Udacity Experiment
• Comparing OA Article Processing Fees with Academic Salaries
• 4.0 Draft 4 Ready for Comment—Final Consultation before Publication [Creative Commons]
• Puzzling Ruling in Massachusetts Fair Use Case
• Amazon Has '79% of E-book Market in UK'

Digital Scholarship

• Can You Copyright the Act of Curation? and What Constitutes Curation Anyway?
• The Astounding Evolution of the Hard Drive
• Newest PeerJ Institutional Arrangements—UC Berkeley and the University of Cambridge
• Tablet Shipments Forecasted to Outpace PCs by 2015
• French Farce: Hadopi's First and Only Suspension Has Been Suspended
• Copyright Clearance Center Joins Gold Open Access Infrastructure Program

Digital Scholarship

• Library Support for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) Discussion Group
• DOAJ Hits 1.5 MILLION Mark!
• Open-Source MOOCs
• Microsoft Offers Free Versions of Office 365 to Nonprofits
• MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching Special Issue on Massive Open Online Courses
• Developments in OA Monograph Publishing

Digital Scholarship

• E Ink Releases Carta: Reboost for E-paper?
• Thoughts on Transforming Peer Review Processes: Lessons from Funding Agency Initiatives?
• The World's Thinnest Touch Surface Proves Pretty Easy to Type On
• Are Publishers a Match for Kindle MatchBook?
• Spotlight on the Digital: How Discoverable Are Your Digitised Collections?
• It's Almost Time to Throw Out Your Books

Member of the Week: William M. Cross

Digital Scholarship

• The Paris Declaration for the Progress of the Digital Cultural Heritage
• Notice of Download Limits on Wiley Online Library
• Introducing "A Free, Libre And Open Glossary"
• Certificate in Digital Humanities Now Offered [UNC-CH]
• NISO and UKSG Release Draft Revised Recommendations for Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART) for Public Comment
• What Are Libraries, Anyway?

Digital Scholarship

• Eight Years Later, the Google Books Fight Lumbers On
• 'Hacking' and 'Yacking' about the Digital Humanities
• The Elsevier "Open Access" / Exclusive License to Publish Hybrid
• Right2Remix: A Campaign For European Copyright Reform
• Now There Are 5

Digital Scholarship

• Scholarly Kitchen Podcast: Carol Tenopir on Time, Value, and Trust in Scholarly Communication
• Hands On: Amazon's New Kindle Paperwhite Is a Really, Really Refined E-Reader
• Canadian Universities Navigate Learning Curve for New Copyright Rules
• Labor Offers $12M Lifeline to Halt Decline in Australian Publishing [Australian Universities Press]
• University System of Maryland to Test Open-Source [Textbook] Pilot Program
• Ministry of Sound Sues Spotify for Copyright Infringement

Digital Scholarship

• Library and Archives Canada Announces a Huge Digitization Project, http://t.co/LKpbkxSQzW
• Amazon Starts Bundling Program, Kindle MatchBook, http://t.co/UiujsCdkD8
• Coalition Letter to Federal Agencies and Offices Requesting Draft OSTP Public Access Plans, http://t.co/SEm5vA37Mv
• New Podcasts: Digital Scholarship Workflows & Copyright Review Mgt System, http://t.co/A544RJSwXu
• Public Library of Science's Cameron Neylon on the State of Open Access: Where Are We, What Still Needs to Be Done?, http://t.co/tA6SEzr4Vm
• E-book Purchasers Could Get Up to $3.06 Per Book in Price-Fixing Settlement, http://t.co/IxEDfYIfHx
• Where's 4.0? A Post-summit Update [Creative Commons], http://t.co/IM9H0DR9oA

Digital Scholarship

• Copyright Policy Here and Abroad, http://t.co/vvhaZWHSSA
• In Historic Vote, New Zealand Bans Software Patents, http://t.co/cuTfS4OuQrr
• Judge Lightens Apple Injunction; Expects to Sign Next Week, http://t.co/t91vcbIsoR
• Google Calls Book Scanning "Transformative" in Latest Push for Fair Use Ruling, http://t.co/APQq9I8nRP
• OUP and MIT Press Launch New Database, http://t.co/FLTxneJyff
• OA Rules at the University of California, http://t.co/fWT6Cq0HWC
• The OA Citation Advantage: Comparing Apples and Oranges, http://t.co/AgIXUwHG0n

Digital Scholarship

• A Year Later, Opposition Briefs Filed in Authors Guild vs. Google, http://t.co/wOWaOQxI2B
• Omeka 2.1—Now with an API—Is Ready!, http://t.co/unZ5OIaGl7
• Stick to Your Ribs: Why Hasn't Scientific Publishing Been Disrupted Already?, http://t.co/Y8ztZRdDU4
• Alexander Grossmann on the State of Open Access: Where Are We, What Still Needs to Be Done?, http://t.co/RaV5z6lvqQ
• Researcher Controls Colleague's Motions in 1st Human Brain-to-Brain Interface, http://t.co/SHSiCrize9
• The First Ever Digital Tattoo, http://t.co/F5VTv2ntZo
• E-books 'Much More Accessible' for Blind People, http://t.co/ek8E4NDP3E

Digital Scholarship

• Institute at U. Va. Will Tackle Huge Data Trove, http://t.co/8j0JRvls96
• HathiTrust Research Center Awarded Grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, http://t.co/VJ90bzFhWq
• Apple Says DOJ's Tempered E-book Penalties Still Go Too Far, http://t.co/GtajeGPQQ4
• 70% of US Residents Have Broadband Access, Study Finds, http://t.co/fGAVQghPuS
• Barnes & Noble Retail CEO Klipper Just Sold Most of His Stock in the Company, http://t.co/dnpC5HVbfW

Digital Scholarship

• The Role of Gender in Scholarly Authorship, http://t.co/tD3GJbs6Bk
• VuFind 2.1 Released, http://t.co/y3OVZRXkOB
• $4 to $1: Public Library Benefits and Budgets—Now Available [Walt Crawford], http://t.co/LIQ3mg8Soa
• Interview: First Year [Susan Gibbons, Yale], http://t.co/NvytzQcuY9
• AAP Supports OSTP Policy Urging Collaboration in Public Access, http://t.co/tMdYU41fr8
• ix Duke Law Journals Move to Digital-Only Format, http://t.co/MxmxfXf0J3

Digital Scholarship

• Newest YouTube User to Fight a Takedown Is Copyright Guru Lawrence Lessig, http://t.co/TPtBmKdMel
• Microsoft CEO Ballmer to Retire in 12 Months, http://t.co/bSe4V7aB8x
• Want to Change Academic Publishing? Just Say No, https://t.co/WihqgDOn73
• Do Not Fear Open Access. Embrace It!, http://t.co/fJ9qu30VWN

Digital Scholarship

• Why Aren't There More Women at the Top in Scholarly Publishing?, http://t.co/cngmbyobTk
• Copyright Suit Prompts Counterclaim from Unorthodox Research Library, http://t.co/qBWEsOG8yl
• The 10 Countries with the Fastest Internet, http://t.co/V79iXCgYDy
• HyperImage 3 Reader—Public Beta Release, http://t.co/JmsOC0IXTg

Digital Scholarship

• A New Polemic: Libraries, MOOCs, and the Pedagogical Landscape, http://t.co/vLxwM2EOdD
• Public.Resource.Org Fights Back against Copyright Lawsuit, https://t.co/2X21SpDLl1
• If Someone Hits A Paywall in the Forest, Does It Make a Sound?: The Open Access Button, http://t.co/yobcWyQEbk
• Infographic Shows Good News about Library Fair Use, http://t.co/oM0bBOKnfc
• Undownloading: Further Proof Those eBooks You Paid for Really Aren't Yours, http://t.co/KKHDBTC298
• CSUN [California State University, Northridge ] Opens Floodgates on Faculty Research, http://t.co/BXQ8BIH125

Digital Scholarship

• RLUK Joins The European Library, http://t.co/ijJXKHaAg2
• Feelin' Stronger Every Day, http://t.co/FqjLc976bt
• Tech Legal News Site Groklaw Shutting Down, because Email Privacy "Is Impossible," http://t.co/hZCmbt3jcB
• Changing IP address to Access Public Website Ruled Violation of US Law, http://t.co/V8Swr9umfw
• Barnes & Noble Backpedals on Dropping Color Tablets, http://t.co/qZehr0ATs9

Digital Scholarship

• JCDL 2013 Keynotes [Links to digital videos], http://t.co/UwFY68x5P1
• More on the AHA, ETDs and Libraries, http://t.co/DrAeb2Mxea
• Today's Computer Commons is Tomorrow's Card Catalog, http://t.co/CjpXY9mnSz
• HEFCE, the State of Open Access in the UK and Post-2014 REF, https://t.co/fZ5e9599X3
• Tough Copyright Laws Chill Innovation, Tech Companies Warn Lawmakers, http://t.co/CXMQWpPz0P

Digital Scholarship