January 31, 2012 Adler, Prudence S., Patricia Aufderheide, Brandon Butler, and Peter Jaszi, co-facilitators. Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2012. Aslib Proceedings 64, no. 1 (2012): Includes "Long-Term Digital Information Preservation: Challenges in Latin America," "Organizing Open Archives via Lightweight Ontologies to Facilitate the Use of Heterogeneous Collections," and other articles. Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, version 6. Houston: Digital Scholarship, 2012. College & Research Libraries News 73, no. 1 (2012): Includes "Supporting Tomorrow's Research: Assessing Faculty Data Curation Needs at Georgia Tech" and...

Another excellent bibliography by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. at Digital Scholarship. From the Publication Announcement: Digital Scholarship has released the E-science and Academic Libraries Bibliography. It includes English-language articles, books, editorials, and technical reports that are useful in understanding the broad role of academic libraries in e-science efforts. The scope of this brief selective bibliography is narrow, and it does not cover data curation and research data management issues in libraries in general. Most sources have been published from 2007 through October 18, 2011; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 2007 are also included. The bibliography includes links...

From the Open Knowledge Foundation Blog: The JISC funded OpenBib project, of which OKF is a partner, announced last week in collaboration with the British Library the release of 3 million open bibliographic records to the community. This release represents a milestone fpr open bibliography as it represents the first substantial corpus of bibliographic data to be released in an open form by a national library. As reported in the announcement post: We have initially received a dataset consisting of approximately 3 million records, which is now available as a CKAN package. This dataset consists of the entire British National Bibliography, describing new books published...

 Yesterday we received an email from the University of Chicago Press alerting us that their free e-book of the month was a replica of the first edition of the Chicago Manual of Style from 1906. TeleRead reported the news. TeleRead Writes: Of course, as with all University of Chicago Press free e-books, this book comes wrapped in Adobe Digital Editions DRM—even though, since it was originally published in 1906, this book is well within the public domain by now. (Oddly, I can’t seem to find any public domain version of it on-line, at least not in...

From an OUP press release: Oxford Bibliographies Online—a series of intuitive and easy-to-use “ultimate reading lists” is designed to help users navigate vast seas of information. OUP’s first online-only product goes beyond search algorithms to present bibliographies in several disciplines selected by leading subject experts and vetted by the highest professional standards. The result of extensive interviews with librarians, numerous focus groups and market research, Oxford Bibliographies Online extend a centuries-long mission of supporting excellence in research, scholarship and education. “Oxford could not have pulled a project of this scope and magnitude together without the exceptional cooperation of the hundreds of...