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 […]
State Databases Activity Report: 2/23/2014
Here’s a roundup of the last two week’s activity at the State Agency Databases Project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases: NEW VOLUNTEER Audrey Hall, longtime volunteer for the Ohio page recently retired. Happily she recruited Kirstin Krumsee to take her place! Please join me in thanking Audrey for a job well done and thanking Kristin for joining our […]
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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