Category «Internet»

U.S. Copyright Office Releases New Copyright Registration Toolkit

“Today, the U.S. Copyright Office released the Copyright Registration Toolkit, a comprehensive resource designed to help creators, small business owners, advisors, and others navigate the copyright system. As part of the Copyright Office’s Copyright for All initiative, the toolkit is a visual breakdown of copyright, including essential information about copyright law, how to prepare for …

Subjects: Copyright, E-Government, Government Documents, Intellectual Property, Internet, Legal Research

Institute of Education Sciences Continuing the Work of ERIC

Institute of Education Sciences Continuing the Work of ERIC: “Dear Colleague: I am pleased to announce that the U.S. Department of Education, on behalf of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), has renewed its contract with AEM Corporation to continue the work of ERIC. The largest library of education research in the world, ERIC serves …

Subjects: Censorship, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

ERICA to the Rescue

“ERIC, the research repository of the Department of Education, was defunded this week. The ERIC catalog lists over 2 million education-related publications. More than 500,000 of these publications are directly hosted by ERIC as full-text PDFs. If the ERIC website goes offline, most of these 500,000 Open Access publications will not be available anywhere else …

Subjects: Censorship, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

The best online photo editors: Expert tested

ZDNet: “The best online photo editors can help you perfect your images while you’re on the move or don’t have access to standalone PC software. These are ZDNET’s top picks. Professional photographers need an extensive range of photo editing tools alongside their camera kits, lenses, and accessories. As a professional photographer myself, I know that …

Subjects: AI, Internet

YouTube at 20. The Video-Sharing Site That Conquered the Internet

TechSpot: “YouTube is a massive competitor to TV, an engagement beast, uploading as much new video every five minutes as the 2,400 hours BBC Studios produces in a whole year. The 26-year-old YouTube star MrBeast earned US$85 million in 2024 from videos – ranging from live Call of Duty play-alongs to handing out 1,000 free …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

What We Discovered on ‘Deep YouTube’

The Atlantic [no paywall] – The video site isn’t just a platform. It’s infrastructure [The article is an important read especially in this turbulent time]. “Until last month, nobody outside of YouTube had a solid estimate for just how many videos are currently on the site. Eight hundred million? One billion? It turns out that …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines, Social Media

One Third of Americans Believe Russian Disinformation

NewsGuard-YouGov Survey Finds: “In the ongoing battle between fiction and reality, fiction — much of it created by Russia’s robust disinformation machine — appears to be winning. A national YouGov survey commissioned by NewsGuard found that one third of Americans believe at least one false claim being spread by Russian media outlets. The survey, conducted …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

DOGE Worker’s Code Supports NLRB Whistleblower

Krebs on Security: “A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleged last week that denizens of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) siphoned gigabytes of data from the agency’s sensitive case files in early March. The whistleblower said accounts created for DOGE at the NLRB downloaded three code repositories from GitHub. Further …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research

Preprint alternative to ERIC

Via Ben Amata: “A colleague offered this non-government source as an alternative. EdArXiv: a preprint server for the education research community. Education researchers now have their own community developed preprint service! EdArXiv (Education Archive) is a free, open source, non-profit service that allows researchers to post and search working papers, unpublished work, conference materials, and …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

A treasure trove of education reports and studies is under threat

The Hechinger Report: Funding for the Education Department’s online library, ERIC, is slated to end this week – “When you’re looking for research on four-day school weeks or how to teach fractions, or trying to locate an historical document, such as the landmark Coleman Report of 1966, you might begin with Google. But the reason …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

The Atlantic – Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration. “Editor’s note: This search tool is part of The Atlantic’s investigation into the Library Genesis data set. You can read an analysis about LibGen and its contents here. Find The Atlantic’s search tool for movie and television writing used …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Internet, Libraries, Search Engines