Fair Use Refresher

Copyright can be confusing, and that confusion can cost you time, money, as well as affect your mission to inform the public.  It's always a great time to reacquaint yourself with the tenets of fair use.  Columbia Libraries Copyright Advisory Office has a number of resources to help you understand fair use, including What is […]

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Getting Tweets in a Row

The first phase of the Twitter archive project from the Library of Congress, including the acquisition and preservation of tweets from 2006-2010, has been completed.  The Library now has an archive of approximately 170 billion tweets and growing, and the technology groundwork for future archiving has been established.  Read more from the Library of Congress […]

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iPhone App for SSRN

Check out SSRN’s new app for the iPhone and iPod touch!  SSRN [Social Science Research Network] database provides access to the latest social science and humanities papers from scholars around the world. Search for "journalism" as key term and find papers such as the following: Media Subpoenas: Impact, Perception, and Legal Protection in the Changing […]

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