http://www.interpares.org/book/index.cfm

The Long-term Preservation of Authentic Electronic Records:
Findings of the InterPARES Project

http://www.webarchive.org.uk/

The first phase of the searchable archive of Web sites – selected for their scholarly, cultural and scientific value – is now available. Developed by the UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC), it is aimed at the broad research community and marks the first systematic attempt to create an archive of social, historic and culturally significant web-based material from the UK domain.

From: Open Access News http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2005_05_08_fosblogarchive.html#111564066476407104

I have choosen "Reviews in History" but no single review seems to have been stored for future generations ...
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/pan/11457/20050323/www.history.ac.uk/reviews/index.html

So what?

http://www.indiana.edu/~iascp/E-CPR/cpr72.pdf

Charlotte Hess, A Resource Guide for Authors: Open Access, Copyright, and the Digital Commons, The Common Property Resource Digest, March 2005, pp. 1-8. A detailed and comprehensive introduction to OA, including background on the problems it solves, recommendations for authors (covering both OA journals and OA archives), answers to common objections and misunderstandings, and an annotated list of major OA initiatives. Hess and her program at Indiana University maintain the OA repository for her field, Digital Library of the Commons.

From OA News

http://www.ica.org/biblio.php?pdocid=285

The International Council of Archives has released the final version of Electronic Records: A Workbook for Archivists.

In the inaugural issue of DM (The Digital Medievalist), a new peer-reviewed on-line journal for technology and medieval studies at

http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal.cfm

Guyda ARMSTRONG and Vika ZAFRIN, Towards the electronic Esposizioni: the challenges of the online commentary

Arianna CIULA, Digital palaeography: using the digital representation of medieval script to support palaeographic analysis

Hoyt N. DUGGAN with a contribution by Eugene W. LYMAN, A Progress Report on The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive

Jonathan GREEN, Opening the Illustrated Incunable Short Title Catalog on CD-ROM: an end-user’s approach to an essential database

Kevin KIERNAN, The source of the Napier fragment of Alfred’s Boethius

Peter ROBINSON, Current issues in making digital editions of medieval texts or, do electronic scholarly editions have a future?

Kathryn WYMER, Why Universal Accessibility Should Matter to the Digital Medievalist

-- From http://www.stoa.org/index.php?p=117

Read a short introduction by Peter Hirtle:
http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20571#article3

SAA Statement:
http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/comments/OW0620-SAA.pdf

A column by Roy Rosenzweig

http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/issues/2005/0504/0504vic1.cfm

Excerpt:
These proposals range from the incremental to the revolutionary. Some (library cooperatives, for example) would require scholarly societies like the AHA to dramatically alter their ways of doing business; others (such as partial access) would, in my view, have little effect on the Association's revenues. Regardless of one's view of the merits of open access (and my own position is obviously in favor of much freer access), these approaches require careful consideration by historians—if only because external pressures (from government, from the rising tide of the open access movement) are likely to force us to re-evaluate our policies sooner or later. But the more important reason to consider how we can achieve open access is that the benefits of broad and democratic access to scholarship—benefits that are within our grasp in a digital era—are much too great to simply continue business as usual.

This month the Archives Hub picks out the collections of botanists and
botanical societies of the past three hundred years. These include the
papers of herbalists, biochemists, geneticists, and even missionaries.
http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/mar05.shtml

http://lisfeeds.com

The one place to read library news headlines from 209 Library Blogs.

http://rhineriver.blogspot.com/

Interesting Weblog on Landscape, Region and History.