Publishers to Baidu: Delete our works
(search.japantimes.co.jp): Chinese search engine giant Baidu has been warned by Tokyo-based Kodansha Ltd. that unless it deletes from its library site manga and novels the firm publishes, it may resort to legal action. Other large publishing houses are also demanding that Baidu Japan Inc. remove content provided in its Baidu… Read More
Open Letter to President of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
(openaccess.eprints.org): It is impossible for scholars and scientists living in the rest of the world to be unaware of the very worrisome developments taking place in Hungary today. There is dismay about the curbs on press freedoms, but the latest developments have struck home in the Academy. Every funded scholar… Read More
Costs soaring for Archives’ digital library, auditors say
(washingtonpost.com): The cost of building a digital system to gather, preserve and give the public access to the records of the federal government has ballooned as high as $1.4 billion, and the project could go as much as 41 percent over budget, government auditors plan to report Friday. The Government… Read More
E-books ‘kindle’ debate over paper vs plastic
(su-spectator.com): The ceaseless "electronification" of books has prompted a heated principle versus practice debate. One side points to a sentimental attachment to books, the feeling of flipping the pages or of borrowing old copies of classic works from relatives. The other side has its sights focused on technology's potential—all of… Read More
Call for OA Research and Data as Humanitarian Assistance to Japan
(arl.org): SPARC is collecting - and posting to the SPARC Open Access Forum (SOAF) - information on any initiatives that are offering free online access to research or data as humanitarian assistance to Japan. The initiatives may be gold, green, gratis, libre, partial, temporary, or any variation on the theme. Read More
Shedding light on retractions
(cmaj.ca): If one were inclined, for some reason, to strike fear into the heart of a medical researcher, it would take little more than whispering a single word: retraction. The phrase “grant application denied” isn’t too popular in academic circles, either, but seeing that in a letter is unlikely to… Read More
No One Knows How Big the E-Book Business Is
(bnet.com): There are lots of numbers floating around that purport to show how big the e-book industry is. The Association of American Publishers (AAP) says that ebooks are the single best-selling category in the US publishing. Amazon (AMZN) says that ebooks are its most popular category of book format. A… Read More
A Journal’s Statement May Aid a Harvard Researcher Accused of Misconduct
(nytimes.com): In a positive development for Marc Hauser, the Harvard researcher whom the university accused last year of eight charges of scientific misconduct, the journal Science said Monday that he had replicated an experiment he published in 2007. Some researchers said they saw the Science statement as a step toward… Read More
Forrester forecasts USD 241 billion cloud computing market by 2020
(informationweek.in): Global cloud computing market will grow from USD 40.7 billion in 2011 to more than USD 241 billion by 2020, according to the latest Forrester Research report. The report titled ‘Sizing The Cloud’ outlines the different market dynamics for three core layers of cloud computing — the public cloud,… Read More
E-Discovery Market Predicted to Reach $1.5B in 2013
(law.com): The worldwide electronic discovery market saw revenue of $889 million in 2009 and will reach $1.5 billion in 2013, technology research firm Gartner predicted this month. Upcoming trends in vendor consolidation, industry standards, and a focus on data integration will all be signs of a maturing and increasingly mainstream… Read More
