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Electronic Publishing
 Websites presented in alphabetical order EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers 
 The goal of this site is to give users "a basic roadmap to the legal issues you may confront as a blogger, [and] to let you know you have rights." Includes FAQs on intellectual property, online defamation law, section 230 (of the Communication Decency Act of 1996) protections, and privacy; FAQs for bloggers as journalists (reporter's privilege and media access); and FAQs relating to election and labor laws. From the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). http://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal Topics: Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, Internet, Labor, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Sep 30, 2009 Electronic Books in Libraries
As part of this LSTA-funded e-book evaluation project, e-book readers were placed in six Rochester, NY area libraries in order to evaluate their uses and the feasibility in various library settings. This website presents a summary of the project, study challenges and conclusions, pros and cons of e-book devices, and general information about e-book technology. Information and related links are available. http://www.lib.rochester.edu/main/ Topics: Literature & Books, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Jan 3, 2006 Google Book Search
A searchable archive of the full texts of books scanned from publishers and libraries. The site includes a discussion of what portions of materials are available for books that may still be under copyright protection: "you'll only see snippets of text directly around your search term. This snippet view is designed to help users ... make a decision about whether to go find a physical copy of the book." Formerly known as Google Print. http://books.google.com/ Topics: Industries, Internet Guides & Search Tools, Libraries & Archives by Type, Literature & Books, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Nov 17, 2005 JEP: The Journal of Electronic Publishing
JEP "is a forum for research and discussion about contemporary publishing practices, and the impact of those practices upon users. Our contributors and readers are publishers, scholars, librarians, journalists, students, technologists, attorneys, retailers, and others." Topics include digital libraries, Google Scholar, poetry publishing on the Internet, desktop publishing software, and more. From the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan University Library. http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/ Topics: Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Jun 13, 2007 Libraries of the Future Bibliography
An annotated "list of resources to help in learning about and planning for the library of the future," some with links to full text. Includes bibliographies, dissertations, journals (and journal articles), monographs, organizations, and Web sites that discuss such topics as the changing role of reference service in a digital age, building digital libraries, and the skills needed for virtual librarians. Prepared in 1999 for Metronet, a Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota multi-library organization. http://www.metronet.lib.mn.us/forlibs.cfm?id=176 Topics: Librarian Specialties, Librarianship, Nonfiction by Genre, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts, Social Science Last updated Feb 14, 2003 Library Digitization Projects and Copyright
This "extensive guide for libraries documents the process of determining whether works have expired into the public domain so that they may then be made available via the Web." From lawyer and former librarian Mary Minow, for the Law Library Resource Xchange (LLRX) site. http://www.llrx.com/features/digitization.htm Topics: Intellectual Property, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Jul 16, 2002 Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
A bibliography of "selected English-language articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. Most sources have been published between 1990 and the present. ... Where possible, links are provided to sources that are freely available on the Internet." From Charles W. Bailey at the University of Houston Libraries. http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html Topics: Education, Media, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Feb 4, 2006 University of California eScholarship Repository
"Offers faculty a central location for depositing any research or scholarly output deemed appropriate by their participating University of California research unit, center, or department, including working papers and pre-publication scholarship." Searchable, and browsable by research unit. From the California Digital Library. http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/ Topics: Education, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Dec 10, 2002 World eBook Library
This site provides free access to tens of thousands of online publications in HTML format in the areas of classical and religious literature, poetry, and historical documents. The public access section of this consortium-based collection is searchable but not browsable. Some materials on the site require a fee. http://www.netlibrary.net/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type, Literature & Books, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Jun 7, 2004 |
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