Day: March 16, 2009

  • An OA mandate for the OSU library faculty

    The OSU Library faculty recently adopted an OA mandate, which is pretty cool.  You can read about it here: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/dspace/handle/1957/10850 and what a few others are saying about it: Peter Suber: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/03/oa-mandate-for-library-faculty-of-osu.html Steven Harnad: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/548-Planets-1st-Library-Faculty-Green-OA-Mandate-7th-US-Mandate,-68th-Worldwide.html I think that this is important on a number of levels. Symbolically, it’s important.  It’s very difficult for the library…

  • MarcEdit Update

    I just uploaded a new version of MarcEdit 5.1.  Most of the updates are related to changes in the MarcEditor.  So here’s the list of changes: MarcEdit Find (specifically when the regular expression option is selected) — Previously, when searches were done, items were located but the window didn’t scroll to the located item.  That’s…