Category: Open Access

Jan 25 2008

Archives, Databases, Open Access, USA, World

Memory Archive

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Memory Archive is an online project that is gathering memoirs from everyday people. The site allows you to search for memoirs indexed for particular words (either in the title or...

Jan 24 2008

Archives, Europe, Libraries, Open Access, Photographs, Technology, USA, Web 2.0, World

The Commons

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I started out being hesitant to go down the road that is making OPACs and other library related tools look more like Google, Amazon.com and the like, but the more...

Jan 06 2008

Archives, Digital, Manuscripts, Open Access, Public Libraries, Technology, USA

Government Documents at the BPL to be Digitized

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The Boston Public Library (BPL) has joined forces with PublicResource.org and the Internet Archive in order to begin digitizing the library’s large collection of government documents. This project has first...

Dec 21 2007

Databases, Digital, Europe, Open Access, Technology, USA, World

Million Book Project

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As the year comes to an end the Million Book Project has reached its goal of scanning and making freely available a million books! This project is spearheaded by the...

Dec 21 2007

Open Access, Technology, USA, World

OLPC out in the World

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After 5 years of planing and development the “$100 Laptop” is finally making its way out into the real world! One of the first countries where the XO, as it...

Oct 18 2007

Digital, Europe, Language, Libraries, National Libraries, Open Access, Technology, USA, Web 2.0, World

World Digital Library

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A World Digital Library is coming together after an agreement signed yesterday between Abdul Waheed Khan, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Communications and Information, and James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress...

Oct 03 2007

Europe, Open Access, World

Master Pieces Help Scientist Study Climate

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Being that we can’t go back in time to study previous climate patterns, Prof. Zerefos of the National Observatory of Athens has begun a study of old master pieces to...

Sep 13 2007

Databases, Open Access, World

The Red List

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The latest update of the Red List of Endangered species is bringing attention to a number of new animals now threatened with extinction. According to the World Conservation Union, we...

Aug 29 2007

Archives, Digital, Open Access, Photographs, Technology, USA, World

Apollo Moon Photographs

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In the 1970’s the various Apollo missions took a number of highly detailed photographs of the moon which have been seen only by a handful of scientist. For three decades...

Jul 31 2007

Databases, Digital, Libraries, Open Access, Technology, USA, Web 2.0, World

Open Library

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Open Library is a new project starting out in San Francisco, CA, but global in scope. It aims at creating a single database for all book ever published! This massive...