Via Reference Librarian David Dillard, Temple University: “I have a new Fair Use under Copyright Law Research guide that provides books with links to related content, websites, database search results for this topic as well as database search results for guides in fair use and a list of databases with fair use content and the number of sources found in each. This database list is currently under construction.”
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Daily Archives: August 29, 2015
UK Medical Heritage Digital Library has more than 26,000 titles
News release: “Pathology, surgery, therapeutics, anatomy, public health – these are some of the top subjects that are covered by the UK Medical Heritage Library (UK-MHL) digitisation project. In July the UK-MHL project reached the halfway point, with over 26,000 titles digitised, resulting in nearly 8 million images. Our goal is to reach 15 million… Continue Reading
Addressing Agency Costs Through Private Litigation in the U.S.
Cox, James D. and Thomas, Randall S., Addressing Agency Costs Through Private Litigation in the U.S: Tensions, Disappointments, and Substitutes (August 26, 2015). Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 15-20. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2651863 “Many scholars argue that over the past seventy years, shareholder representative litigation has acted as an important policing… Continue Reading
Continued Bipartisan Support for Expanded Background Checks on Gun Sales
“Two years after the failure of Senate legislation to expand background checks on gun purchases, the public continues to overwhelmingly support making private gun sales and sales at gun shows subject to background checks. Currently, 85% of Americans – including large majorities of Democrats (88%) and Republicans (79%) – favor expanded background checks, little changed… Continue Reading
Men catch up with women on overall social media use
“Historically, women have been more avid users of social media than men – a finding consistent across several Pew Research Center surveys. In fact, in November 2010, the gender gap was as large as 15 percentage points. More recent data, however, show that these differences are no longer statistically significant. A new Pew Research Center… Continue Reading
