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Information Today December 11, 2014 |
LIBLICENSE Model License Agreement Gets a Makeover This updated license incorporates library best practices as well as advice from legal and publishing professionals.  |
Information Today November 2000 |
Mellon Foundation Grant for Digital Repository Economic Model Awarded to MIT Libraries The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has announced that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has donated $215,000 to MIT to develop an economic model to maintain digital documents within an academic research library...  |
Information Today July 3, 2008 |
LibLime and the eXtensible Catalog Project Announce Partnership LibLime, provider of open source solutions for libraries, and the eXtensible Catalog project, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project currently underway at the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries, have announced a new partnership.  |
InternetNews March 27, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner |
Better Late Than Never For GPL 3 Draft 3 Months late, the Free Software Foundation updates timetable and blames Microsoft and Novell for the delay.  |
Information Today March 24, 2015 |
Disney Movies Are Now Streaming via hoopla digital hoopla digital made a content licensing agreement with The Walt Disney Studios to bring 100 movies to participating public libraries in the U.S. and Canada.  |
Information Today June 18, 2012 |
New Collaboration Announced -- Global Open Knowledgebase (GOKb) GOKb will be an open, community-based, international data repository that will provide libraries with publication information about electronic resources.  |
Information Today August 6, 2009 |
Open Library Environment Project Draft Final Report Available The resulting OLE platform is predicated on service-oriented architecture and a community-source model of development and governance.  |
Information Today March 17, 2015 |
NISO Studies Patron Privacy The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded NISO (National Information Standards Organization) a grant to develop the Consensus Framework to Support Patron Privacy in Digital Library and Information Systems.  |
InternetNews February 16, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner |
GPL Draft Has Microsoft/Novell Deal in Mind A lawyer involved in the next version of the open source license lays bare the terms in the latest draft, including the recent patent covenant between Microsoft and Novell.  |
InternetNews January 17, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
GPL 3 Draft Released A draft of GNU GPL version 3 is now publicly available for comment and discussion.  |
D-Lib December 2007 Karla L. Hahn |
SERU (Shared Electronic Resource Understanding) Opening Up New Possibilities for Electronic Resource Transactions -- Widespread adoption of the SERU model for many electronic resource transactions offers substantial benefits both to publishers and libraries by removing the overhead of bilateral license negotiation.  |
Entrepreneur July 2005 Nichole L. Torres |
Licensee, License Do Is your business ready for the boost that comes from licensing?  |
Pharmaceutical Executive July 1, 2011 Todd C. Davis |
Seeing the Fire Behind the Smoke While crafting license agreements involves all of the tactical tradeoffs expected in a negotiating dynamic, one should try to pay attention to these 10 licensing pitfalls.  |
InternetNews July 27, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
GPL 3: Making Room on Patents, DRM The second draft release of the GNU General Public License Version 3 is out, including a softening on its terms about Digital Rights Management and patents.  |
InternetNews February 10, 2010 |
What Does Open Source Value Most? Open source is defined by licenses, but that's not the end of the discussion, according to the president of the Open Source Initiative.  |
InternetNews September 23, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
Microsoft Sweetens Licensing Programs Microsoft unwrapped changes to its volume licensing program during a webcast this week, saying it had tweaked the rules to give customers more choice and flexibility.  |
Information Today March 12, 2015 |
University of California Organizations Partner for Publishing Workflow Management System The University of California Press and the California Digital Library received a $750,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a content and workflow management system for publishing open access monographs.  |
Information Today September 19, 2011 Barbara Quint |
The British Library to Change Licensing for Noncommercial, Non-U.K. Document Delivery The new service stems from a new framework license agreement supported by the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers and the Publishers Association.  |
InternetNews August 25, 2004 Jim Wagner |
Microsoft Tweaks Sender ID License For Open Source Microsoft works to make its anti-spam proposal more palatable for the open source community, but much remains unclear.  |
InternetNews November 3, 2006 Andy Patrizio |
Microsoft Backs Off Vista Hardware Ties Vista can now be reinstalled on new computers as often as you upgrade.  |
T.H.E. Journal June 2004 |
Centurion Technologies Inc. Centurion Technologies Inc. is offering a new value-based licensing scheme to the education and library markets.  |
InternetNews January 12, 2010 |
Microsoft Greenlights Software Rental Program For partners willing to wade through a complex licensing agreement, Microsoft now offers a third-party rental program.  |
Information Today January 5, 2009 |
Serials Solutions Introduces Resource Manager Consortium Edition Now consortia can manage holdings, subscription, licensing, contact, and cost information for their group and streamline delivery of information to all group members.  |
Information Today December 22, 2008 |
Pilot Grant Program to Improve Internet Connections in Public Libraries The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a pilot initiative designed to help public libraries in seven states secure faster internet connections so more people can access a full range of online applications and opportunities.  |
InternetNews October 3, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft Partially Opens .NET Later this year, Microsoft plans to let developers look at the source code for its popular .NET Framework. But is it too little too late?  |
Information Today June 6, 2011 |
OCLC Web-scale Management Services on Target for July 1 Release In addition to the 32 committed libraries in the U.S., BIBSYS, the Norwegian library consortium signed an agreement with OCLC to base its new library management system on Web-scale Management Services, which will include management tools for more than 100 libraries in Norway.  |
Information Today October 20, 2015 |
Boopsie Caters to Small and Rural Libraries Boopsie for Libraries released Express, a feature set for its mobile app specifically for small and rural public libraries serving less than 25,000 patrons.  |
InternetNews December 6, 2004 Michael Singer |
Sun Submits New Open License The company wants to spark discussion of its Common Development and Distribution License but won't tip its hand at any product plans for its modified Mozilla license.  |
Information Today January 20, 2011 |
PRG Publishes 'The Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices' The 115-page report looks closely at how 70 academic, special, and public libraries in the U.S., the U.K., continental Europe, Canada, and Australia plan their database licensing practices.  |
Information Today October 20, 2011 |
Pew Research Center Unveils New Initiative on Libraries in Digital Age The Pew Research Center announced plans to study how the role of public libraries is changing in the digital age and how library patrons' needs and expectations are shifting.  |
InternetNews May 31, 2005 Jim Wagner |
OSI Group to Slow License Influx? Officials will begin addressing the open source license rush in June, but it wants the community involved.  |
D-Lib January 2000 Bonita Wilson |
Editorial Stepping back to look at the purpose of digital libraries.  |
InternetNews September 7, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
Work on Next GPL Version Under Way Love it or hate it, the General Public License is the cornerstone of the Free Software Movement and the guiding license of Linux and Open Source software.  |
Information Today January 30, 2012 |
CCC and MPLC Partner for New Corporate Movie License The Motion Picture License is a companion to CCC's Annual Copyright License, which gives knowledge workers the freedom to legally share content with each other while respecting the rights of copyright holders.  |
Information Today July 23, 2015 |
Innovative Publishes Report on Libraries and the Web Innovative released a survey report of 4,000-plus academic library users in the U.K.  |
D-Lib June 2008 |
A New Website Devoted to Envisioning the Future of Libraries In an information world in which Google apparently offers us everything, what place is there for the traditional, and even the digital, library?  |
Information Today September 17, 2015 |
Boopsie Reviews Its 2Q 2015 Accomplishments Boopsie for Libraries shared its most recent milestones: It has signed 12 new library clients in multiple library markets.  |
Information Today April 3, 2008 |
Outsell Issues Forecast Report on Libraries Libraries are successfully changing their models to stayabreast of the new information world paradigm.  |
Information Today September 17, 2015 |
Pew Research Center Studies Library Expectations The report explores what the American public expects of libraries.  |
Entrepreneur September 2004 Paul & Sarah Edwards |
More Than a Sitter What to know before starting a child-care business  |
Information Today April 17, 2008 |
ALA Releases `The State of America's Libraries' Report Libraries of all kinds continue to be "engines of learning, literacy, and economic development in communities nationwide."  |
Information Today August 14, 2008 |
LibraryThing Offers One Million Free Book Covers LibraryThing, the social network book cataloging site, is now offering 1 million book covers free for libraries to enhance their online public accessing catalogs.  |
Information Today March 12, 2012 Dan Tonkery |
Booki.sh Goes Into OverDrive The little startup from Melbourne, Australia, Booki.sh is joining the rapidly growing Cleveland-based OverDrive, the leading distributor of ebooks and digital audiobooks to libraries.  |
Information Today October 27, 2015 |
Odilo Broadens Spain's Ebook Lending Program Libraries can use Odilo to purchase local content, magazines, movies, music, newspapers, and more.  |
D-Lib February 2004 Philip M. Davis |
Fair Publisher Pricing, Confidentiality Clauses and a Proposal to Even the Economic Playing Field This opinion piece advocates for the construction of a publicly available, SPARC and ARL endorsed database through which libraries can share price and licensing details.  |
InternetNews December 21, 2009 |
Hacker Breaches College Library System Incident compromises more than sensitive information of more than 51,000 patrons at 25 campus libraries.  |
Information Today April 28, 2015 |
Gale Provides Literacy Resource for Young Library Patrons Miss Humblebee's Academy is designed to help 3- to 6-year-old patrons build foundational literacy skills.  |
Information Today March 6, 2008 |
EBSCONET Adds Details About Publishers' License Agreements EBSCO Information Services has recently broadened the offerings of EBSCONET, its e-service platform for electronic and print resource management, to provide detailed information about publisher license agreements.  |
Information Today October 10, 2011 |
OCLC's Geek the Library Campaign Receives Additional Funding OCLC's Geek the Library community awareness campaign, piloted in 2009 and 2010 and now available to all U.S. public libraries, received an additional grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  |
Science News June 9, 2007 |
Science Safari: Scitopia.org This new site is a search portal to the digital libraries of leading science and technology societies.  |