Guest Post — Learning from the Archives to Build the Future at the APS Press
Jon Repetti reflects on the lessons being learned from the American Philosophical Society’s re-entrance into the fray of the scholarly publishing marketplace.
Book Review — Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization
In 2014, Google created a disruption for both libraries (and publishers) with its digitization activities. Where do things stand now? What’s needed to move forward?
The Ebook R/Evolution – Not as Easy as It Seems
The “ebook revolution” in scholarly publishing has behaved more like an evolution. Are we reaching a key inflection point where users are central to our innovations?
Public Access to Public Books: The Case of the National Trust
The UK’s National Trust owns 140 libraries containing hundreds of thousands of volumes, many of them in the public domain. What would it take to make those books available to the public that owns them?
reCAPTCHA: Workforce of Accuracy
Software that protects against spam can also help digitize old text.