PublicDomain News

UT Students to get E- Textbooks

Alex — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:18:52 GMT

University of Michigan Printing Books on Demand

Public Domain — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:25:17 GMT

U-M is the first university library to install the book-printing machine. The Espresso Book Machine, from On Demand Books of New York, produces perfect-bound, high-quality paperback books on demand. A Time Magazine "Best Invention of 2007," the Espresso Book Machine has been called "the ATM of books." It was purchased with donations to U-M libraries.

The book machine, located in the Shapiro Library lobby on U-M's Central Campus, prints out-of-copyright books from the University's digitized collections. At a cost of about $10 per book, the service is available to researchers, students and the public.

Wikipedia Co-Founder Calls on Philanthropists to Help Make Textbooks Free Online

Alex — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:00:22 GMT

Physicists Press Scholarly Society to Accept Open-Access Publishing

Alex — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:05:47 GMT

From The Chronicle of Higher Education: "The American Physical Society will consider changing its copyright policy to be more accepting of open-access publishing, according to a forthcoming article in New Scientist."

Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States

Public Domain — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:33:32 GMT

Cornell University has released a new version of their chart showing terms of copyrights in the United States.

Harvard faculty to vote on web publishing

Alex — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:32:43 GMT

"Faculty members are scheduled to vote on a measure that would permit Harvard to distribute their scholarship online, instead of signing exclusive agreements with scholarly journals that often have tiny readerships and high subscription costs....
Although the outcome of Tuesday's vote would apply only to Harvard's arts and sciences faculty, the impact, given the university's prestige, could be significant for the open-access movement, which seeks to make scientific and scholarly research available to as many people as possible at no cost."

A Million Books Scanned at U. of Michigan

Alex — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:00:12 GMT

Bringing open resources to textbooks and teaching

Alex — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:56:16 GMT

Founders of Wikipedia and Connexions embrace Open Education movement.

New Effort Encourages Professors to Share the Research Materials on Their Hard Drives

Alex — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:51:41 GMT

Microsoft Will Scan Books From Yale University

Alex — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:16:40 GMT