Printing Public Domain Books on Demand
Tom Mighell over at Inter Alia reports on a cool service called PublicDomainReprints.org whereby you can order a reprint of a book in the public domain. Here’s how it works: 1. You request any public...
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GPO to Digitize All FDLP Legacy Materials
According to a GPO Request for Information: The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) plans to digitize the entire collection of legacy materials that have been disseminated through the...
View ArticleFuture of the Legal Course Book
Seattlepi reports on a the Workshop on the Future of the Legal Course Book at Seattle University Law School. Traditional publishers are confused about what professors want and where the industry is...
View ArticlePublisher/Author Settlement Agreement with Google Opens Door for Full Online...
A settlement has been reached in the class action lawsuit against Google over access to copyrighted material in Google Books. From the AP: According to a statement issued Tuesday by the Authors Guild,...
View ArticleUWDCC Real Estate Collection Offers Consulting Reports from 1960s-90s
The Real Estate Collection is a new resource from the UW Digital Collections Center. It contains materials and examples of commercial work in real estate done by celebrated University of Wisconsin...
View ArticleGoogle Books & its Implications for UW Madison
The Daily Cardinal has a very thorough article on the Google Books initiative and its implications for the UW Madison campus. The article discusses: staffing concerns at campus libraries copyright...
View ArticleWiLS Offers Digitization on Demand of Public Domain Materials
WiLS (Wisconsin Library Services) has recently announced a new Digitization on Demand service. This service will provide complete digital copies of works from UW Madison Memorial Library’s Special...
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CAPTCHAs Being Used to Help Digitize Books with Poor OCR Accuracy
CAPTCHAs are those distorted letters that you have to enter after some internet transactions to verify that you’re actually a human. I recently learned that some CAPTCHAs are being used to help...
View ArticleThe University of Wisconsin Digital Collections preserves slices of history
Want to jump in a time machine? The UW Digital Collections (UWDC) is the place to do it. Over the past twelve years, the UWDC has digitized thousands of images and other media from Wisconsin and around...
View ArticleGoogle wins digitalization case
Today, Judge Denny Chin ruled in favor of Google in what may be a landmark case that would enhance Fair Use for digital items. Google argued that scanning in books and publishing ‘snippets’ of the...
View ArticleArticle: High Court Won’t Hear Copyright Challenge to Google Books
According to the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, the Supreme Court has denied cert to Authors Guild, et al. v. Google, Inc., in which the Authors Guild and individual writers argued that Google engaged...
View ArticleDigitize Your Old Photos, Home Movies, Etc. at Madison Public Library
Do you have a collection of analog materials (like home movies, video tapes, audio cassettes) or paper documents (photographs, etc.) that you’d like to digitize but don’t have the equipment to do so?...
View ArticleThe University of Wisconsin Law School announces the Bhopal Digital Repository
Last week, the UW Law School hosted a symposium on the Bhopal Disaster, which killed thousands of people in the Bhopal region of India, left a long legal trail, and is still controversial to this day....
View ArticleMaking case law accessible to all
There have been some very exciting advances in the fight to make court documents more freely accessible to everyone. As many legal researchers and law librarians are aware, many legal materials can be...
View ArticleMalamud Building Gigantic Journal Database for Data Analysis
The journal Nature has an interesting piece on public domain advocate, Carl Malamud’s project to “build a gigantic store of text and images extracted from 73 million journal articles” for data...
View ArticleWHS Receives Grant to Digitize Early Citizen Petitions to WI Legislature
Congratulations to the Wisconsin Historical Society for receiving a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to digitize citizen petitions submitted to the Wisconsin...
View ArticleU.S. Congressional Reports & Documents back to 1817 to be Freely Accessible...
The U.S. Government Publishing Office has announced that it is working with the Law Library of Congress to digitize and make freely accessible volumes of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set back to the...
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