Berlin Academic – so heißt der neue Wissenschaftsverlag, dessen Gründung der Berlin Verlag heute bekannt gibt.
Auf einer neu errichteten Online-Plattform veröffentlicht Berlin Academic sein Programm nach Open-Access-Prinzipien und unter Creative-Commons-Lizenzen. Gleichzeitig werden sämtliche Titel über Print on Demand sowie in verschiedenen E-Book-Formaten vertrieben.
In spite of all the answers the internet has given us, its full potential to transform our lives remains the great unknown. Here are the nine key steps to understanding the most powerful tool of our age…
If you’re a designer or developer, you’ve probably heard about Git, and you might know that it has become immensely popular, especially among the open source community. Though it may seem cryptic at first, this version control system could change the way you work with text, whether you’re writing code, or a novel.
This article covers why version control is important, how to install the Git version control system, and how to get started with your first repository. Once you start using Git, you’ll want to throw everything into it, from full-blown apps to blog post drafts, because it’s so easy and versatile.
This disconnect is the number-one threat to science librarianship today—perhaps to all academic librarianship. How can science libraries persist when scientists haven't the least notion that libraries or librarians are relevant to their work?
"[T]he key point is that we need to take back our publications from the market-based economy, and to reorient scholarly communication within the gift economy that best enables our work to thrive."
This Linked Data Horizon Scan was commissioned from Paul Miller of the Cloud of Data by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The work was intended to provide an overview of current developments with respect to Linked Data, and to make a series of recommendations to JISC and the wider community.
"Libraries were once the center of the information universe. Fifteen years ago, if I had told you about the coming internet, you would have assumed that libraries would have a prominent place on it. They don't.
Libraries, including WorldCat, rarely show up in web searches, even for books. I lay the blame squarely at the wrong-headed decision to keep library data off the "real web" and to push WorldCat as a "aggregation point" for nobody.