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Court Hands Huge Victory To Universities' Digitization Efforts
Universities can proceed with their efforts to scan books, not just because of the ability to search, but because of the huge benefits to blind students. Read More »
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Inside the Quest to Put the World's Libraries Online
The Digital Public Library of America wants to make millions of books, records, and images available to any American with an Internet connection. Can it succeed where others have failed? Read More »
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Knowledge Unlatched and University of Michigan Library Announce Collaboration to Advance Open Access
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), a not-for-profit company based in England, and University of Michigan Library (U-M Library), a major research library based in Michigan, are pleased to announce that they will collaborate to study and overcome remaining obstacles to the spread of Open Access scholarly publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Under the arrangement, U-M Library will provide a North American base for KU which has recently also established presences in Germany and Australia...
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Knowledge Unlatched Enables a Further 78 Books to Be Open Access
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) is delighted to announce the 'unlatching'* of 78 new titles. These titles have been made Open Access through the support of both individual libraries and library consortia from across the globe. This brings the total to over 100 titles now available as Open Access since 2014, when KU celebrated the success of its Pilot Collection with 28 Humanities and Social Sciences monographs from 13 publishers being unlatched by nearly 300 libraries worldwide...
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Knowledge Unlatched Launches Institutional Usage Statistics Reports
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) is delighted to announce that it will be launching institutional usage statistics reports in November for libraries which participated in KU's Pilot Open Access e-book collection. The reports are based on institutional IP addresses using COUNTER-compliant data provided by one of KU's official hosting platforms, OAPEN. Until now, KU has been publishing aggregated reports for the Pilot Collection only. Looking at the overall usage from HathiTrust and OAPEN, KU can reveal that the Pilot titles have been downloaded and viewed more than 100,000 times...
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KU Launches Pledging Period for KU Select 2016
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the global initiative for Open Access monographs, today launches its next front list and backlist collections; KU Select 2016. KU Select 2016 offers 343 titles to libraries (147 front list to be published between November 2016 – April 2017 and 196 backlist published between 2005 – 2015) with 16 subject areas in the Humanities and Social Sciences...
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