http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans What Is the Sound of One E-Print Downloading? Tue, 13 May 2008 13:21:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 2 is now available from Digital Scholarship. This bibliography presents selected English-language articles, conference papers, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Where possible, links are provided to sources that are freely available on the ... http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2008/05/11/electronic-theses-and-dissertations-bibliography-version-2/ The latest update of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (SEPW) is now available, which provides information about new works related to scholarly electronic publishing, such as books, e-prints, journal articles, magazine articles, technical reports, and white papers. Especially interesting are: "Case Study: Open Access Yields Solid Growth ... http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2008/05/07/scholarly-electronic-publishing-weblog-update-5708/ The Open Access Directory, a Wiki for factual information (vs. narrative descriptions) about the open access movement has been launched. Here's the press release: Peter Suber and Robin Peek have launched the Open Access Directory (OAD), a wiki where the open access ... http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2008/04/30/open-access-directory-a-factual-wiki-launched/ The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2007 Annual Edition is now available from Digital Scholarship. Annual editions of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography are PDF files designed for printing. Each annual edition is based on the last HTML version published during the edition's year. The SEPB 2007 ... http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2008/04/29/scholarly-electronic-publishing-bibliography-2007-annual-edition-published/ Aside from the next Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (5/7/08) and any Digital Scholarship publication announcements, DigitalKoans will be on break until 6/2/08. http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2008/04/23/blogging-break-2/ Vuze has issued a report (First Results from Vuze Network Monitoring Tool) analyzing the network management tactics of ISPs. Here's an excerpt from the report: We believe that there is sufficient data to suggest that network management practices that "throttle" internet traffic ... http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2008/04/23/vuze-issues-report-on-isp-throttling/ Starting next week, the North Carolina State University Libraries will check out Kindles and Sony Reader Digital Books from its Learning Commons. Users will ask library staff to load desired e-books on the readers at check-out. Read more about it at "Library to Offer New Reading Options." ... http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2008/04/23/e-book-readers-to-go-ncsu-libraries-to-check-out-kindles-and-sony-readers/ The University of Florida Digital Library Center has announced that it has digitized over 1.7 million pages, with about 100,000 pages being added in the last month alone. Their digitization statistics are available online. (Thanks to Open Access News.) Read more about it "100,000 Pages a Month." http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2008/04/23/university-of-florida-has-digitized-17-million-pages-over-100000-in-last-month-alone/ Here's a selection of recent news articles and Weblog postings about the Georgia State copyright infringement lawsuit. See my prior postings for further information about the suit ("Georgia State Copyright Infringement Suit Coverage and Commentary" and "Georgia State Sued by Three Publishers for Alleged Digital Copyright Infringement in ... http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2008/04/22/further-coverage-about-and-commentary-on-the-georgia-state-digital-copyright-lawsuit/ CRIA has released Strategies for Open and Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Latin America: Focus on Health and Environmental Information for Sustainable Development, a report about the 2007 workshop of the same name. Read more about it at "Workshop Report: Strategies for Open, Permanent Access to ... http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2008/04/22/report-released-strategies-for-open-and-permanent-access-to-scientific-information-in-latin-america/