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KlausGraf - am Mittwoch, 29. April 2009, 17:40 - Rubrik: English Corner

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Google Book Settlement: Deadline postponed

On Tuesday, Judge Denny Chin of Federal District Court in New York, who is overseeing the settlement, postponed by four months the May 5 deadline for authors to opt out of the settlement and for other parties to oppose it or file briefs. The decision follows requests by groups of authors and their heirs, who argued that authors needed more time to review the settlement.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/technology/internet/29google.html?_r=2

KlausGraf - am Mittwoch, 29. April 2009, 16:57 - Rubrik: English Corner

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Swedish National Heritage Board joins Flickr Commons

http://www.flickr.com/photos/swedish_heritage_board/

See also the 70,000 digitized photographs in the database
http://www.kms.raa.se/cocoon/bild/about.html

KlausGraf - am Mittwoch, 29. April 2009, 01:55 - Rubrik: English Corner

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Images from the History of Medicine

The History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine announces the launch of a new image platform for its premier database, Images from the History of Medicine (IHM). Using award winning software developed by Luna Imaging, Inc., NLM offers greatly enhanced searching and viewing capabilities to image researchers. Patrons can view search results in a multi-image display, download high resolution copies of their favorite images, zoom in on image details, move images into a patron-defined workspace for further manipulation, and create media groups for presenting images and sharing them via e-mail or posting on blogs. With these new capabilities, NLM greatly enhances usability of its image collection, where inspection and comparison of images is often as important as access to bibliographic data. IHM is available online, free of charge, at http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov.

Comprising almost 70,000 images from the Prints and Photographs and other collections held in the History of Medicine Division, IHM is one of the largest image databases in the world dedicated to images of medicine, dentistry, public health, the health professions, and health institutions.