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Another great opportunity to join us at the University of Glasgow, as we invest and expand our digital capacity in #digitallibraries, #digitalarchives, #DigitalHumanities and #digitalcollections!

This particular post is Digital Research Collections Coordinator, overseeing the management and development of curated digital collections. Potential for some interesting #data wrangling too! Details below.

Digital Research Collections Co-ordinator jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/digital-res #Glasgow

www.jobs.gla.ac.ukDigital Research Collections Co-ordinator · University of GlasgowJob PurposeTo manage and maintain efficient, high-quality workflows, processes and procedures for the delivery of the Digital Research Collections service.To...

"Making #archiving obligatory would also encourage universities that don’t yet operate their own repositories to work towards instituting them. “#Universities are one of the most enduring elements of our society,” says Hussein Suleman, a #digitallibraries scholar at the University of Cape Town in S.Africa. “If we adopted this widely, this would be a safeguarding mechanism for the knowledge of our current generation so the future generations can access it.”"
#digitalmemory
nature.com/articles/d41586-024

www.nature.comAct now to stop millions of research papers from disappearingDigital preservation is not keeping up with the growth of scholarly knowledge. Recognizing its causes is the first step to securing records everywhere for future generations.

Courts Are Coming for #DigitalLibraries

A federal court recently said the #InternetArchive is not protected by #FairUseDoctrine.

C.J. Ciaramella | From the December 2024 issue

"In September, a federal appeals court dealt a major blow to the Internet Archive—one of the largest online repositories of #FreeBooks, media, and software—in a #copyright case with significant implications for #publishers, #libraries, and #readers.

"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit upheld a lower court ruling that found the Internet Archive's huge, digitized lending library of copyrighted books was
not covered by the 'fair use' doctrine and infringed on the rights of publishers.

"Agreeing with the Archive's interpretation of fair use 'would significantly narrow—if not entirely eviscerate—copyright owners' exclusive right to prepare derivative works,' the 2nd Circuit ruled. 'Were we to approve [Internet Archive's] use of the works, there would be little reason for consumers or libraries to pay publishers for content they could access for free.'"

reason.com/2024/11/10/courts-a

Reason.com · Federal Courts Are Cracking Down on the Internet ArchiveBy C.J. Ciaramella

This week's #FollowFriday list -- #Libraries / #Librarians / #Books / #DigitalLibraries / #Encyclopedias! Here are some of my #FavoriteFollows (suggestions welcome).

@internetarchive
#InternetArchive is a non-profit #library offering millions of free books, movies & audio files, plus billions of saved web pages in the #WaybackMachine.

@wikipedia
#Wikipedia is a multilingual free online #encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system called #MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history.

@OpenBookPublish
We're #OpenBook Publishers: a non-profit, scholar-led, open access press publishing award-winning #OpenAccess books. All our books are open access, and we don't charge authors a Book Processing Charge to publish with us.

@Memere
Digital librarian, technical information specialist and open science evangelist. Content manager for ROSA P, the National Transportation Library's #OpenAccess digital repository. Co-chair of the Science.gov Alliance.

@librarianshipwreck
"More than machinery we need humanity." PhD candidate, former librarian, pessimistic utopian. History of tech, disasters, and doom-saying. Writing a dissertation on Y2K.

@alittleroad
Open access academic book publishing • Editor at Open Book Publishers • ScholarLed • COPIM Project • Open Access Books Network • Studying 19thC theatre & adaptation

@copim
An international partnership building open, community-governed systems and infrastructures to support Open Access book publishing. #OAbooks

@alaeditionsns
ALA Editions | Neal-Schuman publishes resources used by #library and information professionals, scholars, students, and educators to improve programs and services, build on best practices, enhance pedagogy, share research, develop leadership, and promote advocacy.

@infodocket
News and New Resources For #Librarians, #Educators, #Journalists, and Others

@inventaire
inventaire.io is a #libre webapp to share physical #books with your friends, groups, and neighbors. To do that, we run a #Wikidata-federated open bibliographic database, learn more: data.inventaire.io
#BookSharing #LinkedOpenData #NonProfit#books #library

Inventaire DataInventaire - The Wikidata-federated open bibliographic databaseThe Inventaire project has two cores working in synergy: this page is about the open data project

Update about the court decision regarding the #InternetArchive

March 25, 2023 by chrisfreeland

"Today’s lower court decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is a blow to all libraries and the communities we serve. This decision impacts libraries across the US who rely on controlled digital lending to connect their patrons with books online. It hurts authors by saying that unfair licensing models are the only way their books can be read online. And it holds back access to information in the digital age, harming all readers, everywhere.

"But it’s not over—we will keep fighting for the traditional right of libraries to own, lend, and preserve books. We will be appealing the judgment and encourage everyone to come together as a community to support libraries against this attack by corporate publishers.

"We will continue our work as a library. This case does not challenge many of the services we provide with digitized books including interlibrary loan, citation linking, access for the print-disabled, text and data mining, purchasing ebooks, and ongoing donation and preservation of books."

#Libraries #Publishers #Books #Corporations #Monopoly #DigitalLibraries #Censorship #Copyright #FairUse #PublicCommons #DigitalCommons #Authors #BookPreservation #History #Culture #CDL

blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/th

Internet Archive BlogsThe Fight Continues - Internet Archive BlogsToday’s lower court decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is a blow to all libraries and the communities we serve. This decision impacts libraries across the US who rely on controlled digital lending to connect their patrons with books online. It hurts authors by saying that unfair licensing models are the only way their books […]
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Library Genesis snapshot with basic language data, 2021 November 27

Topics
#LibraryGenesis, #libgen, #metadata, #dataset, #datasets, #libraries, #SQLdump, #SQLdumps, #digitallibrary, #digitallibraries, #languages, #languagedata, #languageanalysis, #linguistics, #colonialism, #imperialism, #europeancolonialism, #europeanimperialism, #whitesupremacy, #antiblackness, #publishing

This is entirely metadata. There are no books/monographs/etc. in this upload.

Description of contents:

libgen_compact_2021-11-27.rar - 2021-11-27 03:27 340M main (non-fiction) database compact dump (no record history, hashes, descriptions; generated daily)
fiction_2021-11-27.rar - 2021-11-27 04:25 931M fiction database dump (generated daily)
libgen-languages_2021-11-27.7z - spreadsheet files which contain only 7 values - MD5 hash; Language(s); Title; Author(s)/Editor(s); Year of Publication; File Size (in bytes); File Extension - for each record.

Internet ArchiveLibrary Genesis snapshot with basic language data, 2021 November 27 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveThis is entirely metadata. There are no books/monographs/etc. in this upload.Description of contents:libgen_compact_2021-11-27.rar - 2021-11-27 03:27 340M main...