Everything coming to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and HBO Now in January – The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/30/18156903/netflix-amazon-prime-hbo-now-new-movies-tv-shows-january-2019-true-detective
TOME Initiative Looks to Create OA System for Peer Reviewed Academic Monographs
Peter Potter, director of publishing strategy for the University Libraries at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, was appointed by the Association of Research Libraries as visiting program officer to advance TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem).
LJ: How does the TOME model work?
Peter Potter: TOME is an initiative to create a system whereby academic books can be made available open access. It’s an attempt to create, from the bottom up, a group of institutions and presses working together to ensure that payment is made on the front end of publication, rather than publishers having to rely on sales income. At the moment we have over 70 participating university presses, [and] 13 participating universities.
The press gets the up-front money. If a press is participating, they’re agreeing to publish this book in an open access format. That doesn’t prevent them from turning around and selling the book, which they can do. If there are print sales or ebook sales that they can generate, they should continue doing that.
Contribution from a university is a minimum of $15,000 per monograph. We figured that after this five-year pilot we would come back and revisit that amount to find out if that is actually enough to make this worthwhile for presses. We understand the $15,000 is less than what it typically costs to produce a monograph—Mellon did a study a few years ago in which they said it’s actually well over $20,000. But the idea is by making a book open access you’re not cutting off sale possibilities. The $15,000 jump-starts the book’s availability, it enables the press to go ahead and publish the book [in print format], and then they will see sales that will supplement that.
One of the things that’s important is that these are university press peer-reviewed books. We want it to be clear to provosts and department heads and deans that these are not second class books—they are books that a university press would have published anyway on the basis of quality. We didn’t want the sales potential of the book to get in the way of that. Sometimes decisions get made for a monograph based upon “we don’t think we can sell enough copies,” and this is a way to try to address that problem on the front end.
Source: Peter Potter on Funding OA Monographs
This approach of essentially paying upfront for the book has worked quite successfully for nearly a decade for CALI eLangdell Press. eLangdell Press books are distributed freely with a Creative Commons license that allows faculty to remix the work to tailor it to their course needs. CALI eLangdell currently offers over 30 casebooks and supplements in over a dozen areas of the law. DUring the Fall 2018 semester eLangdell titles were downloaded over 12,000 times, providing law students with over $1,500,000.00 in value.
Podman and user namespaces: A marriage made in heaven | Opensource.com
User namespace allows you to specify a user identifier (UID) and group identifier (GID) mapping to run your containers. This means you can run as UID 0 inside the container and UID 100000 outside the container. If your container processes escape the container, the kernel will treat them as UID 100000. Not only that, but any file object owned by a UID that isn’t mapped into the user namespace will be treated as owned by “nobody” (65534, kernel.overflowuid), and the container process will not be allowed access unless the object is accessible by “other” (world readable/writable).
Podman and user namespaces: A marriage made in heaven | Opensource.com https://opensource.com/article/18/12/podman-and-user-namespaces
LXD 3.8 has been released – News – Linux Containers Forum
LXD 3.8 has been released – News – Linux Containers Forum https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/lxd-3-8-has-been-released/3450
What’s Coming and Going From Netflix in January 2019 :: Lifehacker
What’s Coming and Going From Netflix in January 2019 :: Lifehacker https://lifehacker.com/whats-coming-and-going-from-netflix-in-january-2019-1831043643
Spectrum is joining GitHub!
Spectrum is joining GitHub! —
https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/spectrum-is-joining-github~1d3eb8ee-4c99-46c0-8daf-ca35a96be6ce
New Paper From Indiana U Law Faculty Shows Significant Law Student Satisfaction With Online Classes
This is the first article to provide empirical data on the effectiveness of distance education in law schools since the ABA this summer approved increasing the total number of credits that law students could earn through online classes from 15 to 30. Our data, composed of law student surveys and focus groups, reveal not only the success of distance education in their experience, but also the methods that are most effective for them.
— Dutton, Yvonne and Ryznar, Margaret and Long, Kayleigh, Assessing Online Learning in Law Schools: Students Say Online Classes Deliver (October 1, 2018). Denver University Law Review, Forthcoming; Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law Research Paper 2018-13. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3242824
This article is important for 2 reasons. First, it provides an excellent survey of the state of online education in American law schools including information on what schools are providing online courses (hint: lots) and how those courses are being taught. Second, it provides solid empirical evidence of the success of online classes in an ABA accredited law school with the course being taught within the scope of the accreditation rules.
This is a must read for law school Deans, faculty, librarians, and technologists.
Everything coming to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and HBO Now in October – The Verge
Project MUSE offers nearly 300 “HTML5” open access books on re-designed platform | JHU Press
Project MUSE offers nearly 300 “HTML5” open access books on re-designed platform
More searchable and discoverable than PDFs, the improved new format represents the “next chapter” in OA publishing in the humanities and social sciences
Project MUSE offers nearly 300 “HTML5” open access books on re-designed platform | JHU Press
The press release offers no details on the platform though it doesn’t appear to be Pressbooks, already a leader in the OER space.
Everything coming to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and HBO Now in September – The Verge
Everything coming to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and HBO Now in September – The Verge
Look for all 3 services to beef up their fall horror fare headed into Halloween.