Last addition to the list

https://archiv.twoday.net/stories/11445658/#18131916

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SAGE recently published its first articles in SAGE Open, the only broad-based open access journal featuring content from the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities. SAGE Open supports the growing number of authors who require their articles to be freely available on publication, either because of personal preference or because of university or government mandates.
Since the beginning of the year, SAGE Open has received more than 400 submissions from across the whole breadth of the social sciences.
“We’re excited about the launch of SAGE Open and thrilled with the number of authors responding in just four months,” said Jayne Marks, Vice President and Editorial Director for SAGE's Library Information Group. “The flexibility of the format allows SAGE to explore publishing research from emerging fields and provides a service to authors who are looking for the maximum dissemination of their work.”
Unlike traditional journals, SAGE Open does not limit content due to page budgets or thematic significance. Rather it accepts articles solely on the basis of the quality of the research, evaluating the scientific and research methods of each article for validity.
Today marks the availability of that content online, with the following inaugural articles published at www.sageopen.com:
“Designing for Explanation in Health Care Applications of Expert Systems” by Keith W. Darlington: https://sgo.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/04/28/2158244011408618.full.pdf+html
“Lars and the Real Girl: Lifelike Positive Transcendence” by Ted Remington: https://sgo.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/04/28/2158244011408346.full.pdf+html
“A Transformative Collegiate Discourse” by Evan Ortlieb: https://sgo.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/04/28/2158244011408346.full.pdf+html
“Intangible Heritage of Standard English Learners: The “Invisible” Subgroup in the United States of America? Implications for Closing the Achievement Gap” by Ogo Okoye-Johnson: https://sgo.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/04/28/2158244011408441.full.pdf+html
“Fostering Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Research in Adult Education: Interactive Resource Guides and Tools” by Elizabeth Anne Erichsen and Cheryl Goldenstein: https://sgo.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/04/28/2158244011408441.full.pdf+html
“Personal Meaning Orientations and Psychosocial Adaptation in Older Adults” by Gary T. Reker and Louis C. Woo: https://sgo.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/04/28/2158244011405217.full.pdf+html

https://www.sagepub.com/press/2011/may/SAGE_openLaunches4sandbscientists.sp

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https://www.lib.umich.edu/marketing-and-communications/news/mlibrary-launches-project-identify-orphan-works

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.

The vast majority of HathiTrust’s holdings are in-copyright (73%). An unknown percentage of these are so-called “orphans,” that is, in-copyright works whose owners cannot be identified or located. The lack of hard data on the number of orphans in the corpus is a significant impediment to the creation of a legal or policy-based framework that would allow scholars and researchers to access these works.

In a paper recently published by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), John Wilkin, Executive Director of HathiTrust, extrapolates from known statistics about the corpus, and speculates that the majority of works published since 1923 may in fact be orphans

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People - Actor Bobby Gledhill in mini skirt walking past a group of Catholic nuns, Perth, 1968 (NAA: A1200, L71199)

"In 2008 the National Archives created the touring exhibition Strike a Pose, with guest curator Lee Lin Chin. Australian style of the 1960s and 70s is explored through the eyes of government photographers during a period of cultural and social change.

A sample of photographs from Strike a Pose are showcased here, along with commentary by Lee Lin Chin. View the tour schedule. Click on an image to view the enlargement."

National Archives of Australia, Homepage of the exhibition

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This article by Michelle M. Wu presents a vision of the start of a collaborative, digital academic law library:

https://ssrn.com/abstract=1832826

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https://blog.archive.org/2011/05/12/physical-archive-launch/

After 2 years of prototyping and testing a new design for
sustainable long-term preservation of physical books records and
movies, we are starting with over 300,000 books and gearing up
for millions.

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Update:
https://archiv.twoday.net/stories/19464994/

https://www.irishcentral.com/news/British--subpoena-IRA-records-from-Boston-College-oral-archive-121767934.html

Boston College has been subpoenaed by the British government to release secret transcripts of conversations with IRA operatives.

The British are likely seeking evidence against Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams in one of the most controversial killings of the Troubles, that of Jean McConville.
[...]
This is the first time that secret archives have been subpoenaed in pursuit of a British criminal investigation into The Troubles and has sent a shudder through the academic world.

“This is our worst-case scenario,” Mary Marshall Clark, the director of the oral history research office at Columbia University told The New York Times

Anthony McIntyre, the researcher, said the British move was appalling “The damage it would do to research at the university would be unimaginable,” he said. “People will hold onto their secrets forever” he told The Times

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2013 Update:
https://hnn.us/articles/why-boston-college-oral-history-ruling-isnt-victory

https://www.memoriahistorica.gob.es/MapaFosas/

https://mapadefosas.mjusticia.es/exovi_externo/CargarInformacion.htm

Pursuant to the provisions of article 12.2. of Law 52/2007 of 26 December which acknowledges and extends rights and establishes measures in favour of those who were the victims of persecution or violence during the Civil War and the Dictatorship, the Spanish Government was commissioned to create an integrated map of the entire national territory showing the areas where the remains of people who disappeared under violent circumstances during the Civil War and the subsequent political repression have been found.

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Yesterday, IMSLP, a website dedicated to archiving public domain sheet music lost its domain name due to a complaint sent by the UK’s Music Publishers Association to the site’s registrar, GoDaddy. The notice incorrectly claimed that IMSLP’s copy of Rachmaninoff’s The Bells infringed copyright.

https://www.publicknowledge.org/blog/sheet-music-domain-goes-down-over-bogus-copyr

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