The slides that Philippa and I prepared for the “Copyright, teaching and Blackboard – staying legal” workshops are now available online. Please feel free to use, re-use, or edit. Copyright, teaching and Blackboard – staying legal by Philippa Dyson & Paul Stainthorp is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales [...]
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The Business of persistent links
Academic librarians are unhappy that some of the UK’s largest university business schools are being asked to pay extra to be allowed to link to articles published in a key journal in their field. Harvard Business Review (issn:0017-8012), published by HBP (Harvard Business Press), has long been available as part of the EBSCOhost Business Source [...]
2 early starts in the name of journalism and copyright
I’ve been in London for a couple of days, obsessively seeking out free wifi so that I can test out the new L&LR netbook PC, which is one of these. Observations on the device: 9″ screen fine; mini-keyboard fine and actually easier to use in a confined space (e.g. the 17:03 from King’s Cross to [...]
Visualising our e-journals usage
More than 36,000 e-journal titles are listed on our A-to-Z, but student and staff interest is not spread equally between those titles. Plotting a graph of the individual usage of each title shows a sharp ‘spike’ of concentrated use within a very small number of titles, and a very long tail of thousands of titles which are barely used, [...]
Meeting with the CLA
We’ve just had a meeting with David Crook of the CLA, about the new (comprehensive) Higher Education Licence, which covers photocopying, scanning, and now digital use. You can read the new licence user guidelines, at: http://www.cla.co.uk/assets/169/uukguildhe_userguidelines.pdf Key differences between the old licence and the new: We’re now permitted to photocopy material published in Italy and [...]
Transatlantic Authentication Culture Gap (TACG)
I’m beginning to see that there’s quite a large difference between the approach used by the vast majority of UK HE libraries (us included), and the standard model used across the pond to authenticate users to third-party subscription databases. In a nutshell, Athens and Shibboleth don’t seem to have made much of an impression over [...]
