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16 Oct 2019, 3:33 am by Rob Robinson
Additional Reading The Cloud Security Alliance The Storage Networking Industry Association Source: ComplexDiscovery The post The Magic of Open Source? [read post]
21 Aug 2010, 5:52 am by Steven
Reuters – “U.S. independent bookstores are discovering how to flourish despite the growth of electronic books with some even looking to form an alliance with a formidable competitor — Google. [read post]
7 Aug 2023, 7:16 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
To learn more about Direct to Open, or to sign-up to become a participating library, visit direct.mit.edu/books/pages/direct-to-open or contact the MIT Press library partnerships and sales team. [read post]
7 Mar 2018, 6:34 am
In part, the brief emphasized the broad social benefits that Book Search creates for authors and the public by opening up new ways for readers to find books. [read post]
23 Oct 2007, 8:17 am
So Peter Brantley over on the O'Reilly blog has an interesting reaction to yesterday's New York Times article on the latest rumblings from the Open Library/Open Content Alliance/Internet Archive people (OL for short). [read post]
11 Sep 2009, 8:52 am
The Open Book Alliance, a coalition that includes Google's rivals Amazon.com, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and Yahoo, as well as several writers' groups, accused the parties to the Google Books deal of "guile"â€â [read post]
26 Oct 2007, 12:49 pm
The Open Content Alliance, by contrast, is making the material available to any search service... [read post]
20 Jul 2011, 7:46 am by VP/CEO, Integrity Marketing Solutions
He may have brought a serious book of business with him, and is looking to form alliances to replace the support system he just left. [read post]
19 Sep 2009, 12:49 am
Justice Department advised a federal judge Friday [Sept. 18] that a proposed legal settlement giving Google Inc. the digital rights to millions of out-of-print books threatens to thwart competition and drive up prices unless it's revised.As has been the standard in the "patent reform" debate, the competitors noted adverse effects on innovation:"The current settlement proposal would stifle innovation and competition in favor of a monopoly over the access, distribution,… [read post]
22 Sep 2008, 4:16 pm
The printing process begins with a reader selecting a digitized book from U-M's pre-1923 collection or from another online source, such as the Open Content Alliance. [read post]
26 Oct 2009, 6:08 am
. - Law) has published Beyond Open Skies: A New Regime for International Aviation (Wolters Kluwer 2009). [read post]
5 Nov 2007, 6:45 am
I promised in my post on the Open Content Alliance/Boston Public Library consortium agreement to post some comments on it. [read post]
22 Jul 2009, 9:21 am
Ess III Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources, Harvard Law School (bio here) * Ann Wolpert, Director of Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (bio here) * Hal Abelson, Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (bio and more here) Moderated by Maura Marx, (brief profile here) Executive Director, Open Knowledge Commons (which sprang out of the Open Content Alliance, see… [read post]
17 Jul 2013, 2:12 am by Hope Lewis
-based site with accessible books and periodicals for readers with print disabilities) DAISY Consortium (Digital Accessible Information System), a nonprofit consortium of libraries and other organizations that uses open source standards to convert text to audio books and articles that can be navigated by the blind and visually-impaired. [read post]
9 Apr 2009, 8:32 am
"They are doing an end run around the legislative process," said Brewster Kahle, founder of the Open Content Alliance, which is working to build a digital library with few restrictions.Opposition to the 134-page agreement, which the parties announced in October, has been building slowly as its implications have become clearer. [read post]
4 Sep 2009, 9:30 am by Christina D. Frangiosa
The hearing on the settlement is currently scheduled for October 7, 2009 and would presumably consider any objections filed before the deadline.Since the prior posting, a number of things have occurred:* The Open Book Alliance released a statement on August 26, 2009, explaining its objection to the settlement as opposition to the potential monopolization and exclusive control by the proposed Book Registry over public access to any of the books scanned… [read post]
2 Jun 2021, 11:15 am by Unknown
How Syrian Refugees Choose Their Place of Residence in Lebanon, Policy Brief, no. 58 (Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, May 2021) [text]Books/book chapters:Reconciliation and Refugees: The Academic Alliance for Reconciliation Studies in the Middle East and North Africa (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021) [full-text via AAUP]- The essays included in this collection resulted from a conference held to mark the establishment of the Academic Alliance for… [read post]