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Three articles looking at the DPLA from different perspectives

Would have been nice if they'd tried this ten years ago, when it might have made a difference.

Or better, maybe their corporate executives, accountants, or whoever should never have tried 'fixing' their bottom line in the first place. Now, in a time when the net can provide electronics parts at better than competitive prices, this appeal looks like far too little coming far too late.

This could turn out to be a very good thing:

"The University of Michigan Library’s Copyright Office is launching the first serious effort to identify orphan works among the in-copyright holdings of the HathiTrust Digital Library, which is funding the project."

A strong article on behalf of open-access science which got a mention on BoingBoing. It starts with the story of biologist Jonathan Eisen, who is trying to foster the reputation of his late father's scientific research by posting it online, but is hampered at every step by the existing, closed world of scientific publishing:

Another day, another reminder that if you're trusting your data to a company's servers, the preservation of that data is at the mercy of their business plan--which can change on a dime.

I suppose those FlipShare users should be glad they got even a thirty day notice.