http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/386-Dont-Risk-Getting-Less-By-Needlessly-Demanding-More.html

Peter Suber has answered at
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/04/price-and-permission-barriers-again.html

Peter Murray-Rust (and I) have often argued that permission barriers
must be removed. See e.g.

http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/4409408/
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/4356023/ (and earlyer posts)

See also
MacCallum CJ (2007) When Is Open Access Not Open Access? PLoS Biol
5(10): e285 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050285

On the recent discussion on textmining and PubMedCentral:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/04/text-mining-licensed-non-oa-literature.html
http://researchremix.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/non-oa-full-text-for-text-mining/
http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=1026

Harnad writes: "OA is free online access. With that comes,
automatically, the individual capability of linking, reading,
downloading, storing, printing off, and data-mining (locally)."

"Data-mining (locally)" is nonsense. If I have to mine 1000 articles
and are allowed to download automatically 10 articles/day I have to
wait 100 days.

Harnad repeats his ideas as mantras. We can do the same:

FAIR USE IS NOT ENOUGH.

There are scholars and scientists outside the U.S. under more rigid
copyright regimes without Fair Use.

Let's have a closer look on the German Copyright law:

http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/__53.html

It is allowed to make copies for scholarly use if and only if
(i) there are good reasons
and
(ii) there is no commercial goal ("keinen gewerblichen Zwecken dient").

In my humble opinion medical research in a pharma business is
(i) research according BBB
(ii) commercial.

A scientist in this company may according German law (since January 1, 2008) NOT
(i) make copies of scholarly articles (§ 53 Abs. 2 Nr. 2 UrhG) for scholarly use
(ii) data-mining.

On the problems of the new commercial clausula for universities
("Drittmittelforschung") see (in German) the position of the
Urheberrechtsbündnis:
http://www.dfn.de/fileadmin/3Beratung/Recht/Expertise-3-korb-urhg.pdf

§ 53 Abs. 2 Nr. 4 allows him making copies (of some articles in a
journal issue) on paper or for non-digital use only. Because data
mining needs digital use our German pharma scientist has only a chance
to mine the CC-BY subset of OA publications (most hybrid journals have
AFAIK CC-BY-NC).

(i) OA is important for all researchers (including commercial research).
(ii) Commercial medical research is important for world's health problems.
(iii) Data-mining is a new scientific way to solve medical problems.
(iii) Business companies engaged in commercial research cannot and
will not afford journal licenses for large-scale data-mining.

(SCNR: How many people must die because an OA guru says "There is a
need to update BBB" and denies the need of re-use?)

There is a simple solution (I will repeat it because it is important
like a mantra):

* MAKE ALL RESEARCH RESULTS CC-BY
* MAKE ALL RESEARCH RESULTS CC-BY
* MAKE ALL RESEARCH RESULTS CC-BY

Between 1843 and 1914, photography became the main means of illustrating stories in the French press, paving the way for many new kinds of publications. Photographic production increased massively during this period. Photo-mechanical printing methods made it possible to combine typecast letters and silver print images and newspaper editors rushed to use this new tandem to illustrate their pages. From the magazine L’Illustration, created in 1843 to La Vie au grand air, which appeared during the Belle Époque, photography’s importance increased enormously. Initially used by engravers as a basis for their drawings and not published themselves, photographs soon became the main medium for illustrating news stories. The press began using more and more photographic images. Under the guidance of artistic directors, skilled in the art of marrying words and images, picture stories began to cover newspaper pages, transforming illustrated journals into magazines. Between these two dates, the protocols of photographic illustration were established, producing a spectacular form of visual news.

* Télécharger le mémoire (format pdf, 15,2 Mo)

Gervais, Thierry, L’Illustration photographique. Naissance du spectacle de l’information, 1843-1914, thèse de doctorat d’histoire (dir. André Gunthert, Christophe Prochasson), EHESS, 2007, 554 p.

Via Fotostoria

I would like to announce the Phase 1 launch of Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online, an AHRC-funded project based at the Faculty of English, Cambridge University.

http://scriptorium.english.cam.ac.uk

Scriptorium will comprise full digital facsimiles of at least twenty late medieval and early modern manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books, along with descriptions, transcriptions and bibliographical information; a set of research and teaching resources for students and scholars working on manuscript studies; and an enhanced version of English Handwriting: An Online Course, our interactive palaeography tool:

http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/

All parts of the site will remain freely and publicly available.

Currently, the resource includes images of St Johns College, Cambridge, MS S.23, an early seventeenth-century poetic miscellany. More images and information will be added progressively in the coming weeks and months, as the site is enhanced, expanded and developed. (SHARP-L)



Was it necessary to give the project the same name Scriptorium like http://www.scriptorium.columbia.edu/ ?

The resolution of the pictures could be better. They are licensed CC-BY-NC-ND but manuscript scans are not copyrightable even in the UK.

http://www.librarian.net/stax/2273/updatefilter-bpls-evolving-online-collection/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/

The names of some 3.5 million people displaced after World War II have been provided to Holocaust memorial groups and museums in the United States, Israel and Poland by a recently opened archive of Nazi-era documents.

The International Tracing Service of the International Committee of the Red Cross said Tuesday that it had handed over a third round of digitally copied documents to the Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and the Warsaw-based National Institute of Remembrance.

The archive, based in Bad Arolsen, Germany, said the transfer involved copies of index cards that feature the names of people who were freed from Nazi concentration and labor camps as well as prisoners of war.

Read more at:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gSg_hbYN4pNhJbKnC1w0FS7vh8EwD8VKL4G01

http://www.folger.edu/pr_preview.cfm?prid=216&is_archived=0

The Shakespeare Quartos Archive , a freely-accessible, high-resolution digital collection of the 75 pre-1641 quarto editions of Shakespeare’s plays—a joint project of the Folger Shakespeare Library and the University of Oxford, with the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland—is one of five transatlantic collaborations awarded the first JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants.



See also

http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/news/2008_mar_26

British Library: Shakespeare in quarto
http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/homepage.html

http://mrshakespeare.typepad.com/mrshakespeare/2008/03/early-texts-o-2.html

http://hangingtogether.org/?p=401

See: http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/4624626/ (German)

"The latest installment of this recurring exhibit includes recently uncovered treasures in the Special Collections archives and manuscript collections. Among the items on display are pamphlets about Chicago child welfare, including some highlighting how a call girl can stretch a dollar, posters and letters of Irish Nationalist O'Gorman Mahon, illustrations by Hyde Park activist Vi Uretz, a record album of a musical based on the life and times of Charles Darwin, and some Chicago Jazz Archive selections including artwork by Stephen Longstreet and George Von Physter. These and more entertaining treasures are on display."
Link:
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/curex.html

UNESCO is helping the main Mongolian holders of national documentary heritage, the Gandan Tegchenling Monastery and the National Archives, to preserve their unique collections. Several thousands of pages of endangered texts will be saved in digital form and be eventually open to a wider audience.

http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=26295&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html