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Archive for June, 2007

Dublin Core Standard Renewed and Updated

Posted in Metadata on June 5th, 2007

The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative has announced that the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set has been renewed and updated as ANSI/NISO standard Z39.85-2007.

In other Dublin Core news, the DCMI Abstract Model has been approved as a DCMI Recommendation and a new DCMI Task Group has been established for collaborative work on Resource Description and Access (RDA).

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Repositories as Platforms for Researchers e-Portfolios Podcast

Posted in Digital Repositories, Institutional Repositories, Open Access, Scholarly Communication on June 4th, 2007

The Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR) has made a podcast of Susan Gibbons’s "Repositories as Platforms for Researchers e-Portfolios" presentation at the Adaptable Repository workshop at the University of Sydney.

Powerpoints from the workshop’s presentations are also available.

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Lawsuit Aside, McGraw-Hill Uses Google Book Search

Posted in E-Books, Publishing, Scholarly Communication, Search Engines on June 3rd, 2007

According to an article in Network World, McGraw-Hill uses Google Book Search on its Web site in spite of the fact that it is suing Google over the product.

How can this be? McGraw-Hill participates in the Google Book Search Partner Program, which gives publishers control over access to their digitized books, but, at the same time, it objects to Google’s efforts to scan and make available copies of its books in libraries without its permission.

Source: Perez, Juan Carlos. "Google’s Book Search Available in Publisher Sites." Network World, 1 June 2007.

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