Friday, March 7, 2014

News for Library Nerds, March 7, 2014

ALA’s environmental scan of Open Education, MOOCs, and Libraries

ERIC’s removal of thousands of ERIC Docs, followed by the total blackout of the government shutdown, has made many education librarians nervous about relying on the government for purely digital copies. The Center for Research Libraries has a nice summary of the changes to government documents in recent years. 

Another Nobel Laureate attacks the current paradigm of peer-review, publish-or-perish, and tenure evaluations.

Textbook companies are moving into the online courseroom business.

The internet makes for strange bedfellows, like Rap Genius and Harvard Divinity School 

And copyright may get in the way of the development of the “Internet of Things.” Thanks, Keurig

Getty making many of its images available for free. If you can't beat the infringers, perhaps you can use them as advertising.

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