Category: Current News: DigitalKoans Twitter Updates

• UNC Debates Open Access, http://bit.ly/GSLjFL
• British Publishers vs. Open Access, http://bit.ly/GQ5hSn
• Connecting the Dots: Lessons in Rebellion from the Math Network, http://huff.to/H7ZFAe
• Should There Be a Right to Copyright Exceptions?, http://bit.ly/H6Mql3
• Facebook Warns Employers Not to Ask Job Applicants for Log-in Credentials, http://bit.ly/GMzIXd

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• Op-Ed: Imminent "Six Strikes" Copyright Alert System Needs Antitrust Scrutiny, http://bit.ly/GMrHRn
• 'Non-Humans' Account for 51% of Web Traffic, http://bit.ly/GMs8Lv
• The Digital Humanities as a Slideshow, http://bit.ly/GHljdM
• Clifford Lynch Named 2012 LITA/Library Hi Tech Award Winner, http://bit.ly/GGQcU6
• Paying for Long-Term Storage [Video, David Rosenthal, LOCKSS], http://bit.ly/GNCJcz

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• Digitization at the BPL and a Digital Library for Massachusetts: Introduction, http://bit.ly/GC6Kvw
• Academic Publishing Is Broken, http://bit.ly/GBycHC
• NYT: We Have 454,000 Digital Subs So Let's Turn Down the Meter, http://bit.ly/GElTga
• Debate Heats Up Ahead of EU Parliament Discussion on ACTA, http://bit.ly/GEWt2e
• The Give and Take between E-publishing Standards and Innovation, http://oreil.ly/GEWR0D

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• UK Research Funders Suggest Liberated Open-Access Policy, http://bit.ly/ycUmCw
• RCUK Proposed Policy on Access to Research Outputs, http://bit.ly/AEvE7K
• Research Councils UK Draft New Open Access Policy: My Comments [Heather Morrison], http://bit.ly/y3hLvN
• Recommendations on RCUK OA Draft Policy [Stevan Harnad], http://bit.ly/ygVghQ

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• RIAA Chief: ISPs to Start Policing Copyright by July 12, http://cnet.co/wfG2aL
• What Is Peer Review For?, http://bit.ly/xppm4l
• Permission for Information-Mining: Update and Response from Royal Society of Chemistry [Peter Murray-Rust], http://bit.ly/AfLXzP
• Open Access, Brick by Brick, http://bit.ly/wqpMu1
• A Conversation at the Newberry [with audio file link], http://bit.ly/ztEvb3

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• Google Begins to Scale Back Its Scanning of Books from University Libraries, http://bit.ly/xJmWPi
• Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. Using Trademark Law to Prevent the Use of Public Domain Stories, http://bit.ly/AxoWjj
• The "Cost of Knowledge" Boycott Trajectory, http://hvrd.me/zTyP4U
• The Evolution of Science: Open Publishing [Video], http://bit.ly/wthUnx
• Hydra at Code{4}Lib 2012, http://bit.ly/y3Q29k
• Court Declares Newspaper Excerpt on Online Forum is a Non-Infringing Fair Use, http://bit.ly/yWSVUp

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• Should Libraries Get Out of the eBook Business?, http://bit.ly/w55WPn
• A Tale of Two Encryption Cases, http://bit.ly/AdCeEx
• An Efficient Journal, http://hvrd.me/wGFj5F
• Anarchy and Commercialism, http://bit.ly/yVRXAK
• Is ACTA Binding? Depends on Where You Ask, http://bit.ly/yphNUU
• Tweet, Loc. Cit., http://bit.ly/wjB3xa

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• Anonymous, Decentralized and Uncensored File-Sharing Is Booming, http://bit.ly/zGFvkB
• Scholarly Articles for Everyone! JSTOR's Register and Read Program Launches, http://bit.ly/xvC7dS
• A Look Inside the Boycott of Elsevier: A Q&A with Tim Gowers and Tyler Neylon, http://bit.ly/xWqT9W
• The Impact of Random House Price Increases, http://bit.ly/xm8Bcn
• Finally, an Easy-ish Question [Authors Guild et al. v. Hathitrust et al.], http://bit.ly/xYJgLC

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• Thought Leaders to Discuss Internet Culture and the Academy at the 2012 Institute for Computer Policy and Law, http://bit.ly/wLBr41
• An Interview with Francis Jayakanth, Winner of the 2011 EPT OA Award, http://bit.ly/xdYTnL
• French Authors Contest New Law on Orphan Works, http://bit.ly/zv0goY
• Most NIH-Sponsored Trials Slow to Publish, Many Aren’t Published, Most Fail to Report Data, Studies Show, http://bit.ly/AuPV2Z
• Barnes & Noble Launches $199 Nook Tablet, http://on.mash.to/xB4n8O

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• Europeana launches Linked Open Data Pilot and Animation, http://bit.ly/ylasJm
• What Were They Thinking? [Intellectual property policy at the University of Louisiana], http://bit.ly/xDsjsY
• Libraries, Tech-Smart Authors, and the Coming Digital Apocalypse, http://bit.ly/xlTtKk
• Trouble for Elsevier, the Leading Academic Publisher [Podcast, WNYC], http://bit.ly/xtLSoE
• The OA Interviews: Michael Eisen, Co-founder of the Public Library of Science, http://bit.ly/xX2jga

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• How Much Is Enough? We've Passed 15 'Anti-Piracy' Laws in the Last 30 Years, http://bit.ly/xNFyaC
• EU Court of Justice Says Social Networks Can't Be Forced to Be Copyright Cops, http://bit.ly/xddO61
• Downloadable Version of FAST [Faceted Application of Subject Terminology] Now Available, http://bit.ly/zzgB3j
• Etextbooks Attracting Involvement of the FCC, Education Department, and Higher Ed, http://bit.ly/wws2gg
• Elsevier Increases Sales and Profits, http://bit.ly/xkHQxf

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• Calculating Scholarly Journal Value through Objective Metrics, http://bit.ly/Awmsqp
• Podcast: How Important Are Open Ebook Standards to Universities?, http://bit.ly/yREqbN
• Could Backlash to Research Works Act Boost FRPAA’s Odds of Passage?, http://bit.ly/AnU6FJ
• Ten Years On, Researchers Embrace Open Access, http://bit.ly/y9GKFn
• CNI Podcast: Horizon Megatrends, E-Book Self-Publishing, OSTP Comments, More, http://bit.ly/A5ubmW

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• EU Parliament Chief Speaks out Against ACTA, http://bit.ly/zt2YFR
• New Seal of Approval [Anvil Academic], http://bit.ly/wHnIDN
• British Library Starts Videogame Website Archive Project, http://ind.pn/ya9sfu
• The Difficulties in Opening Science: Q&A with Michael Nielsen, http://bit.ly/zXCres
• The Cost of Knowledge Versus Elsevier: 5,600 Signatures and Growing, http://bit.ly/y8loCi

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• Notice to Publishers: Curse Your Sudden but Inevitable Betrayal, http://bit.ly/yT7eXE
• John Wiley & Sons Have No plans to Endorse the Research Works Act, http://bit.ly/zBLlsx
• 'The Economist' and 'Financial Times' Already Writing Off ACTA as Dead, http://bit.ly/yAQlKg
• Interview with Peter Suber, http://bit.ly/yKIJ9x
• ReDigi and the Purpose of First Sale, http://bit.ly/y325Se

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• Copyright Lawsuit Targets Owners of Non-Secure Wireless Networks, http://bit.ly/zqCgvT
• Let 1,000 Boxees Bloom: Fighting Big Cable's Encryption Initiative, http://bit.ly/ABGv1u
• Seven Public Health Groups Write to Oppose the "Research Works Act," http://bit.ly/z0rvzm
• Penguin Stops Selling e-Books to Libraries, http://bit.ly/wr0Jx5
• Prime Time for Public Access, http://bit.ly/zXlKxU

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• Elsevier's Alicia Wise on the RWA, the West Wing, and Universal Access, http://bit.ly/Ak8WaL
• Ebook Talks: The Details, http://bit.ly/xsmrOq
• New Economic Models for E-Textbooks: Cliff Lynch Speaks with IUPUI's David Lewis, http://bit.ly/z6DvAt
• Why Pay for Intro Textbooks?, http://bit.ly/Ap86gd
• Occupy Elsevier?, http://bit.ly/xQTu0f

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• PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2011 [Presentations], http://bit.ly/w0rk5c
• Video: Preservation Status of E-resources: A Potential Crisis in Electronic Journal Preservation, http://bit.ly/Ah27kg
• Omeka 1.5 Has Arrived!, http://bit.ly/zJthFt
• Why an International Trade Agreement Could Be as Bad as SOPA, http://bit.ly/zkSXkB
• A Message to the Research Community: Elsevier, Access, and the Research Works Act, http://bit.ly/xfk1Qt

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• Maximizing the Visibility of Research Outputs: COAR Call for Action, http://bit.ly/wtYtLh
• American Anthropological Association Changes Opposition to Open Access–Plus a Proposal to Do More, http://bit.ly/Ajf9GS
• Why Stop with Elsevier?, http://bit.ly/xieaWp
• Ranking Web of World Repositories (January 2012), http://bit.ly/e8WGYv
• The Widely Held Notion That High-Impact Publications Determine Who Gets Academic Jobs, Grants and Tenure Is Wrong, http://bit.ly/zT1GfT

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• You Are Elsevier: Time to Overcome Our Fears and Kill Subscription Journals, http://bit.ly/zQCuXJ
• JISC to Fund Development of TEXTUS project [platform for public domain texts], http://bit.ly/zpuYuf
• Academic E-Books: Innovation and Transition [Global Library Constortium], http://bit.ly/wo9Wjv
• Apple Updates iBooks Author EULA to Clarify Restriction on Format, Not Content, http://bit.ly/zOCVbK
• Beyond SOPA: ACTA, WIPO, and the Global Copyfight [Video], http://bit.ly/zdeMO2

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• Fair Use Ferment, http://bit.ly/z8AxwS
• E-presses Punch Above Their Weight, http://bit.ly/zGUALe
• Free Research Needs the Free Circulation of Ideas, http://bit.ly/zHP004
• New Survey Shows Kindle Fire Satisfaction Ratings, http://bit.ly/w8x1si
• The Open Access Interviews: Jan Velterop, http://bit.ly/zYVmzu

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• Why Some Book Buyers Are Increasingly Resistant to E-Readers, http://bit.ly/wwNsiS
• ALA Resolution on Publishers and Practices That Discriminate against Library Users, http://bit.ly/zt0dLW
• Journal Publishing Reform, http://bit.ly/yfintF
• Beyond ACTA: Next Secret Copyright Agreement Negotiated This Week—in Hollywood, http://bit.ly/y4KrHs
• As Journal Boycott Grows, Elsevier Defends Its Practices, http://bit.ly/ybgQIl

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• Why Boycott Elsevier?, http://bit.ly/AokAjk
• Elsevier Publishing Boycott Gathers Steam among Academics, http://bit.ly/zwO49k
• Academics Call for Boycott of Elsevier, http://bit.ly/ww6i8J
• VuFind 1.3 Released, http://bit.ly/zG47OT
• ASPB [American Society of Plant Biologists] Does Not Endorse the Research Works Act, http://bit.ly/zXdkQd

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• Announcing the SMU [Southern Methodist University] Digital Repository, http://bit.ly/wzu3G9
• Bamboo Newsletter, Winter 2012 [Project Bamboo], http://bit.ly/zAn8F3
• Kindle Fire Dwarfs Other Android Tablets in Market Share after Just Three Months, http://t.co/gOtYrPCN
• Scholars Seek Better Ways to Track Impact Online, http://bit.ly/zkcdCV
• As Anonymous Protests, Internet Drowns in Inaccurate Anti-ACTA Arguments, http://bit.ly/wvgS1l

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• The Research Works Act: A Damaging Threat to Science [Lancet editorial], http://bit.ly/wWGdFG
• As USTR Insists ACTA Doesn't Need Congressional Approval, Wyden Asks State Dept. for a Second Opinion, http://bit.ly/AFy4U2
• Elsevier Needs to Get Out More, http://bit.ly/wpCq0E
• Most EU Members Sign ACTA; SOPA-Style Protests Building, http://bit.ly/zQqmzV
• UK Court Says You Can Copyright the Basic Idea of a Photograph, http://bit.ly/zXkYDi

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• New Petition Asks White House to Submit ACTA to the Senate for Ratification, http://bit.ly/yuMUph
• PIPA And SOPA Were Stopped, But the Web Hasn't Won, http://huff.to/zuMFnU
• Guide to Finding Interesting Public Domain Works Online, http://bit.ly/xYLcSL
• Online Social Network Seeks to Overhaul Peer Review in Scientific Publishing, http://bit.ly/zHi3ee
• The OA Interviews: Francis Jayakanth of India’s National Centre for Science Information, http://bit.ly/wexSIN

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