Lunchtime listen: Numbers Stations from 99% Invisible
99% Invisible is one of my favorite podcasts. You never know what you’re going to get, but I guarantee you’ll look at the world differently after every listen! The Numbers Stations show — and its companion show “Youarelistening.to” combined in the same podcast — is particularly intriguing. Even better is that there are people like […]
Free Government eBooks Now Available From GPO
The Government Printing Office (GPO) announced today that it is now making eBooks available in the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP). Catalog records include descriptive information, as well as Persistent Uniform Resource Locators (PURLs) and the ebooks are available in .mobi, (Kindle) .epub (most other eBook readers) formats as well as other formats such […]
PLOS’ New Data Policy: Public Access to Data
Today the Public Library of Science (PLOS) revised its already-strong data policy. As of March 3, 2014, authors in all PLOS journals will be required to provide a Data Availability Statement. Additionally, all underlying data must be publicly available in 1 of 3 places: the body of the manuscript, in the supporting information, or in […]
LOC: Orphan Works and Mass Digitization; Request for Additional Comments and Announcement of Public Roundtables
So, if you could set U.S. Copyright policy, what would you do? Don’t tell me you haven’t thought about it… 🙂 Now’s our chance! Federal Register & Copyright Office, Library of Congress via GISIG The U.S. Copyright Office will host public roundtable discussions and seeks further comments on potential legislative solutions for orphan works and […]
Re-Imagining Government: Affordable Banking
February 25, 2014 / Leave a comment
The Center for Effective Government weighs in on the recent report by the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General that recommends that the US Post Office should “provide non-bank financial services to those whose needs are not being met by the traditional financial sector.” Re-Imagining Government: Affordable Banking, by Scott Klinger, Center for Effective […]
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