Internet Archive

Friends:

Last week the Internet Archive announced a new collection of Government documents from around the world that will be curated and searchable through a single interface.  The IA hopes to make a wealth of government-funded research that is now located in separate, often hard-to-find repositories, more easily accessible to the public.

You can learn more on the IA blog at http://blog.archive.org/2022/10/19/announcing-democracys-library

Friends:

On September 16, 2022, Publisher's Weekly  posted a comment entitled "In Defense of Library Lending" by Kyle K. Courtney, copyright advisor for Harvard University and cofounder/chair of Library Futures, a project of NYU Law’s Engelberg Center. 

The article discusses the ongling litigation between the Internet Archive and Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House.  Hachette et. al claimed that by lending single digital copies of books it owned, the Internet Archive was violating the publishers' copyright.

Friends:

The July Feeding the Elephant blog has many items of interest to H-Scholar subscribers so I am re-posting it in full.

You can find the original post at

https://networks.h-net.org/node/1883/discussions/10546720/elephant-roundup-july-2022

Open Access Publishing

With thanks to H-Hist-bibl for this reference.

The Internet Archive Scholar provides a search tool that retrieves papers and similar OA materials that have been collected by the Internet Archive including pre-publication papers and digitized microfilms of older material.

Below is an excerpt from the webpage for the project followed by a link to the page:

An occasional newsletter from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.

Libraries

New Internet Archive Database: Internet Archive Scholar (x-h-histbibl)

New Internet Archive database: The Internet Archive Scholar

Discussion published by Dominique Daniel on Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Internet Archive Scholar is  a new project of the Internet Archive:

New Internet Archive Database: Internet Archive Scholar (x-h-histbibl)

New Internet Archive database: The Internet Archive Scholar

Discussion published by Dominique Daniel on Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Internet Archive Scholar is  a new project of the Internet Archive:

New Internet Archive Database: Internet Archive Scholar (x-h-histbibl)

New Internet Archive database: The Internet Archive Scholar

Discussion published by Dominique Daniel on Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Internet Archive Scholar is  a new project of the Internet Archive:

The Internet Archive has responded to criticism in this comment:
http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/30/internet-archive-responds-why-we-rele...