Archivists at Cambridge University's Scott Polar Research Institute are using Twitter to draw attention to the diary that Captain Robert Falcon Scott kept during his ill-fated 1910-1912 Antarctic expedition: every day, they tweet the first 140 characters of the diary entry that Scott penned exactly 99 years before.

http://larchivista.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-archival-use-for-twitter.html

http://naa.gov.au/collection/scope/audiovisual/australianscreen.aspx

http://www.arl.org/news/pr/guide-for-perplexed-nov09.shtml

The American Library Association (ALA), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) announce the release of “A Guide for the Perplexed Part III: The Amended Settlement Agreement.” The guide describes the major changes in the amended settlement agreement (ASA), submitted to the Court by Google, the Authors Guild, and the Association of American Publishers on November 13, 2009, with emphasis on those changes relevant to libraries.

After a long process of analysis and consultations with experts, scientific editors and members of the Advisory Committee of the SciELO Brasil collection, the Creative Commons (CC) Licensing, with the minimum standard "Attribution – Non-commercial Use" (CC-BY-NC) was formally adopted by the SciELO collection for all of its content, and with the possibility for the editors to adopt the BY license with broader attribution.
bvsalud.org

http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/11/meet-fuggers.html



Siehe schon http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/6024087/

http://highwire.stanford.edu

When searching one cannot filter free articles.

Lisa A. Gregory's Master's theses, "The Practice and Perception of Web Archiving in Academic Libraries and Archives," is available from the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

http://ils.unc.edu/MSpapers/3480.pdf

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=409057

Is it right that academic research paid for by the taxpayer remains so unavailable to the people who are likely to make the most use of it?

http://www.lib.colum.edu/archives/mss_fischetti/

Via
http://blog.scad.edu/vrc/2009/11/13/the-john-fischetti-editorial-cartoon-sketchbook-project/