[ba-ohs-talk] News related to OHS
Snippets from Free Online Scholarship Newsletter (01)
* The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has launched Scholars Portal,
a suite of tools giving library patrons a single interface to the
electronic resources on the web and in the user's library.
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb020513-2.htm
http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=541
Scholars Portal is based in part on ARL's survey on how libraries use
portal software. Here's a brief summary of the survey results. ARL will
publish the full results later this year.
http://www.arl.org/access/scholarsportal/prelim.html
Scholars Portal
http://www.arl.org/access/scholarsportal/index.html
* The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) has released the beta of version 2.0
of its protocol for metadata harvesting. It is now available for
downloading. The OAI metadata harvesting protocol is the standard for
interoperable FOS archives.
http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/openarchivesprotocol.htm
* The Creative Commons will launch tomorrow. Currently the web site carries
only an announcement, but check it again soon. The Creative Commons is a
Lawrence Lessig initiative that will draft and print out custom licenses
for authors, musicians, and other content creators who want to provide free
online access to their works and yet retain enforceable rights e.g. to
block the publication of mangled, misattributed, or commercial versions
(see FOSN for 2/14/02). Authors will indicate the rights they wish to
retain by checking boxes on a web from. Software at the site will then
assemble a licensing agreement that assigns the remaining rights to the
public domain. The creators will mark their online work with an icon that
links back to the licensing agreement, which users may read in either a
"lay" or a legalistic version. The project will also act as a conservancy
for the content it licenses.
The Creative Commons
http://www.creativecommons.org
* NASA has put online the proceedings of the Workshop on Experimental
OAI-Based Digital Library Systems (Darmstadt, September 8, 2001).
http://techreports.larc.nasa.gov/ltrs/PDF/2002/tm/NASA-2002-tm211638.pdf
* The National Centre for Science Information and the Indian Institute of
Science have put online the proceedings of their workshop on Developing
Digital Libraries using Open Source Software (April 15-20, Bangalore). The
workshop focused on two open source packages, Eprints and Greenstone.
http://144.16.72.189/opendl/ (02)
----------
The Free Online Scholarship Newsletter is supported by a grant from the
Open Society Institute.
http://www.osi.hu/infoprogram/
==========
This is the Free Online Scholarship Newsletter (ISSN 1535-7848).
Please feel free to forward any issue of the newsletter to interested
colleagues. If you are reading a forwarded copy of this issue, you may
subscribe by signing up at the FOS home page.
FOS home page, general information, subscriptions, editorial position
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/index.htm
FOS Newsletter, subscriptions, back issues
http://www.topica.com/lists/suber-fos
FOS Discussion Forum, subscriptions, postings
http://www.topica.com/lists/fos-forum
Guide to the FOS Movement
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/guide.htm
Sources for the FOS Newsletter
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/sources.htm
Peter Suber
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters
Copyright (c) 2002, Peter Suber
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/copyrite.htm (03)