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Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
'Google's five-year head start and its relationships with libraries and publishers give it an effective monopoly: No competitor will be able to come after it on the same scale. Nor is technology going to lower the cost of entry. Scanning will always be an expensive, labor-intensive project. Of course, 50 or 100 years from now control of the collection may pass from Google to somebody else—Elsevier, Unesco, Wal-Mart. But it's safe to assume that the digitized books that scholars will be working with then will be the very same ones that are sitting on Google's servers today, augmented by the millions of titles published in the interim.'
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
'The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is an independent policy and research center with a primary mission "to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dignify the profession of the teacher and the cause of higher ed
H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
Job listings, calls for papers, listservs, announcements etc., for humanities and the social sciences
Proceedings of ICSU Press Workshop on Economics, real costs and benefits of electronic publishing in science - a technical study
"ICSU Press held a workshop in Oxford (UK) at the end of March 1998 to follow-up one of the main recommendations of the Joint ICSU Press/UNESCO Conference of Experts (February 1996 - ref1) - to conduct a technical study on the economics, real costs and be
The Uses of the Humanities, Part Two - Stanley Fish Blog - NYTimes.com
"The pertinent question is, Do humanities courses change lives and start movements? Does one teach with that purpose, and if one did could it be realized?
If the answers to these questions are (as I contend) “no” – one teaches the subject matter and any
Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences |
"This research bulletin describes a framework for cyberinfrastructure for the humanities, arts, and social science (HASS) disciplines that is rooted in the history and challenges of those disciplines, as well as the working practices of faculty scholarshi
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Charles Bailey's bibliography of "articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet"
ARL, Ithaka “Field Study” Finds New Scholarly Models Are Embraced - 11/11/2008 11:01:00 AM - Library Journal
News article on “Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication”
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