Open Access News points out that the Open Archives Initiative is seeking public comment on their specification for conveying copyright metadata on Open Access content. Such a specification is critical to the aforementioned goal of assembling course packs out of Open Access materials.
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Open Access, Furl, and Course Packs
I just took a quick look at The Learner’s Library As far as I can tell, the service breaks down as follows: LL contains a collection of academic journal articles that have been pre-cleared for copyright. There’s a search interface to that collection that includes what appears at first glance to be pretty decent natural […]
Furl Follow-up: Mike Giles Responds
As a follow-up to my earlier post, I’m happy to report that I’ve had a satisfying email exchange with Furl’s Mike Giles. On the PDF front, Furl is planning to index both .pdf and .doc files in the “near future.” (No, he didn’t give me a timeline.) Even more interesting is the possibility regarding Creative […]
Furl, PDF's, and Creative Commons
I have started to use Furl to create an archive of articles (mostly PDFs) that I find on the web related to informational cascades for myself (and eventually for my blog readers as well). So far I’m finding two significant limitations. First, Furl apparently doesn’t do full text search for PDF’s yet. That’s too bad; […]