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Table of contents of volume 2:

• 16th Century Chronicle to 21st Century Edition: A Review of The Diary of Henry Machyn, by Misha Broughton,
• Der Zürcher Sommer 1968: Die digitale Edition, by Friederike Wein
• The Digital Edition of the Becerro Galicano de San Millán de la Cogolla, by Francisco Javier Álvarez Carbajal
• The Fleischmann Diaries, by Merisa A. Martinez
• The Shelley-Godwin Archive: The edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Notebooks, by Frederike Neuber

All reviews can be accessed for free via our webpage: http://ride.i-d-e.de

[Sorry, haven't seen the prior posting of Georg Vogeler, thanks for that!]

http://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/

"Princeton University has created and released an open-access collection of thousands of documents by theoretical physicist and philosopher of Science Albert Einstein."

Via
http://sputniknews.com/science/20141206/1015565418.html

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/12/05/princeton-u-press-launches-open-all-digital-version-einstein-papers-project

New book by Martin Weller

http://microblogging.infodocs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/weller.pdf

The new book by Martin Paul Eve on OA is OA [and CC_BY-SA], fortunately:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316161012

"The New York City Bar Association is set to auction off its rare books in a series of three auctions at Doyle New York. The first sale will be held tomorrow. The New York Law Journal also ran a piece on the upcoming sales, featuring some pretty shocking comments from Association staff and criticism from members."

http://philobiblos.blogspot.de/2014/11/links-reviews_23.html

"SALE OF THE NEW YORK CITY BAR ASSOCIATION RARE BOOK COLLECTION TOPS $2.3 MILLION
Landmark November 24, 2014 Auction at Doyle New York Far Surpassed Its Estimate of $665,780-1,010,420, With All 325 Lots Sold"

http://www.doylenewyork.com/content/more.asp?id=348

""I've never had one request for any of these books," said Tuske. "Nobody even knows we have them. [...]

But two association members complained in a Nov. 11 letter to city bar President Debra Raskin that they had learned of the auction "only recently" and characterized the decision to dispose of the books as an "inside job" with the executive committee consulting only itself and employed officials.
John R. Horan and Stephen Sayre Singer inquired if there were moral or legal reasons why the auction should not proceed. They asked whether the sales were consistent with the implied or stipulated intent of donors and whether any of the materials were subject to express donor restrictions.
Finally they argued that dispersing the books by auction would make them less accessible and would not assure their preservation.
"Overall, if the association cannot properly care for and make available these valuable artifacts of its patrimony, we think it more suitable that they be kept together and donated to another research facility," they said."

Read more: http://www.newyorklawjournal.com/id=1202676761256/NYC-Bar-Plans-Landmark-Auction-of-Rare-Books-Documents#ixzz3K29Jgkyd
(Free registration needed)

http://www.socialhistoryportal.org/

"Search and browse digital collections on social history and the history of the labour movement from the late 18th to the beginning of the 21st century. More than 900,000 digitised objects (archives, books, brochures, leaflets, photographs, posters, prints, cartoons, sound, films and videos) from 15 specialized archives and libraries in Europe."

http://heraldica.hypotheses.org/2088

Peter Suber: "This is big, and not only because the the Gates Foundation is big. The policy applies to both texts and data, requires CC-BY licenses, and is the first OA policy anywhere to give publishers fair warning and cut the permissible embargo from 12 months to zero over the next two years."

https://plus.google.com/109377556796183035206/posts/SNRPPLGCqPh

http://rechtsgeschiedenis.wordpress.com/2014/11/14/defending-belgiums-cultural-heritage/

"Last week many media published the news about a drastic cut in the budgets of major cultural institutions in Belgium. in particular federal institutions such as the Bibliothèque Royale Albert I in Brussels and the Archives de l’État en Belgique, also in Brussels, face next year a loss of 20 percent of their yearly budget. I use here the French name of both institutions, but in particular on the website of the Belgian National archives you can immediately gauge the multilingual character of Belgian society. Belgium can be roughly divided in three parts, Flanders, Wallonie and the central region in and around Brussels, Belgium’s capital. The German-speaking minority in the region along the German border has in principle the same rights as the Flemish and Wallon communities.

An online petition has been launched to give the protest against these plans a loud and clear voice, and I cordially invite you to share your concern about these proposals by signing this petition. "

PLEASE SIGN!