Friday, August 8, 2014

News for Library Nerds, August 8, 2014

I was off on vacation, but I've returned with some more articles:

Thought about Creative Commons licenses for library-created resources? Maybe you should!

Of course, if a monkey creates it, there’s no copyright to worry about (seriously, this is an issue that’s come up).


What’s behind the fraud in stem cell research.

Meanwhile, all the retractions are calling into question the value of peer review and journal publishers.

That begs the question: Should academics move to self-publishing?

Big 5 publishers are all on board with ebooks in libraries (YAY!), but there are still a long of wrinkles to the process (not so yay).

Here are some vintage book reviews by kids - and they’re pretty harsh!

What’s your plagiarism defense?

Instructional Design Essentials eCourse from ALA.


No comments:

Post a Comment