The Georgia Tech Library is running the following notice

Because of recent problems with systematic downloading of IEEE and ASCE journal articles that resulted in the suspension of our access, the Library has implemented downloading limits. We will continue to monitor this situation. Please note that downloading entire collections of data or entire issues of a journal or conference is a violation of copyright law and a violation of Georgia Tech's licenses with publishers.

Yet another reason why we need open content. Subscription prices are rising at a rapid pace. Every university I've been at has sent out "surveys" to find out which journals we "really" need because costs are outstripping budgets. Now we get "downloading limits" with no specifics about those limits. What if I'm interested in an entire special issue? Do these "downloading limits" mean I can only see one article per day? Per week? Per month? Soon to come, printing limits, time limits on how long one can read an article--already in use via NetLibrary, and perhaps even citation limits. Digital collections are great, but not when they come with high prices and restrictions. It appears the Georgia Tech Library is only borrowing the journals.

The Life Expectancies of Books is an interesting article about how virtually every book, no matter how popular or worthy, will fall out of print and become essentially lost to history. Copyright issues complicate this process, and may prevent works from being resurrected.

Thought this would be of interest to many of you! I got it from the Penn State CFP clearinghouse.

Call for Papers:
Bringing Text Alive:
The Future of Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Electronic Publication

The Text Creation Partnership (TCP) project was founded at the University of
Michigan in 1999 to reinvent scholarship by creating fully searchable texts
of thousands of titles printed across three hundred years and two continents
of English and American history.

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is now accepting applications for the 2006 Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program in Scholarly Information Resources for Humanists. Now in its third year, the fellowship provides new scholars in the humanities a unique opportunity to develop expertise in new forms of scholarly research and the information resources that support them, both traditional and digital, that are challenging research institutions in the changing academic landscape. The program offers fellowships to individuals who have earned their Ph.D.s in disciplines in the humanities within the past five years (or who will earn them before starting the program) and who believe that there are opportunities to develop meaningful linkages between disciplinary scholarship, libraries, archives, and evolving digital tools. All fields in the humanities will be considered; Fellows must be in residence at a sponsoring institution for the duration of the fellowship.