ALL modern video cameras and camcorders that shoot in h.264 or mpeg2, come with a license agreement that says that you can only use that camera to shoot video for "personal use and non-commercial" purposes (go on, read your manuals).

http://www.osnews.com/story/23236/Why_Our_Civilization_s_Video_Art_and_Culture_is_Threatened_by_the_MPEG-LA

http://chronicle.com/article/A-Gentle-Reminder-to/65235/

Let this, then, serve as a gentle reminder to rare-book curators that your job is not to keep readers from your books but just the opposite: to facilitate readers' use of the collections. If altruism or professional integrity aren't sufficient motivators to get you to play nice, you might consider the fact that you have a job only because people want to read what's in those collections, and you will keep your job for only as long as readers feel welcome to approach you to make use of the materials.

Link: http://www.archivists.org.au/2010-melbourne

http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/

"Digital Humanities Now is a real-time, crowdsourced publication. It takes the pulse of the digital humanities community and tries to discern what articles, blog posts, projects, tools, collections, and announcements are worthy of greater attention."

Article on Open Access and responses, temporarily free at

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g920250275~db=all

http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=2242

http://pantonprinciples.org/faq/#q1-what-are-the-panton-principles

The Digital Scriptorium, the University of California, Berkeley, and
Columbia University announce the return of the Digital Scriptorium to its
original home at Berkeley.

The Digital Scriptorium is an image and cataloguing database that unites the
medieval and Renaissance manuscript holdings of a growing number of American
libraries. It began in 1997 with the combined resources of Berkeley and
Columbia; present membership includes thirty institutions with over 5000
manuscripts and 27,000 images, all freely available on the web. Member
institutions include the Huntington Library, New York Public Library, the
Houghton Library at Harvard, and the Ransom Center at the University of Texas.

"We look forward to expanding the membership of the Digital Scriptorium and
to developing its Web 2.0 capabilities," says Thomas C. Leonard, University
Librarian at Berkeley. "Since the base technology for the project originated
on this campus, we are confident that the expertise of our staff will
re-integrate the program smoothly into our present system, and that we will
make the Digital Scriptorium even more useful to medievalists."

During its six-year tenure as host to the Digital Scriptorium, Columbia also
contributed to the database's increasing strength. James G. Neal, Columbia's
University Librarian, adds that "extensive work was carried out by our
Libraries Digital Program Division to build a highly specific scholarly
search engine, and the coverage of the database was significantly expanded."
Columbia's Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Consuelo
Dutschke, was re-elected in the annual Digital Scriptorium members' meeting
to a second term as Executive Director; she will retain that post until
September 2012.

The new URL for Digital Scriptorium, http://www.digital-scriptorium.org
currently directs users to the Columbia site; when the transfer to Berkeley
is completed in January of 2011, it will point seamlessly to Berkeley servers.

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/charleston/chadv/2010/00000011/00000004/art00005

Comparative review by Jeffrey Beall.

Excerpt:

"These publishers are predatory because their mission is not to
promote, preserve, and make available scholarship; instead, their
mission is to exploit the author-pays, Open-Access model for their own profit. They work by spamming scholarly e-mail lists, with calls for papers and invitations to serve on nominal editorial boards. If you subscribe to any professional e-mail lists, you likely have received some of these solicitations. Also, these publishers typically provide little or no peer-review. In fact, in most cases, their peer review process is a façade. None of these publishers mentions digital preservation. Indeed, any of these publishers could disappear at a moment's notice, resulting in the loss of its content..."

These publishers are reviewed:

Academic Journals

Academic Journals, Inc.

ANSINetwork

Dove Press

Insight Knowledge

Knowledgia Review

Libertas Academia

Science Publications

Scientific Journals International