SPD-Länder wollen im Streit ums Leistungsschutzrecht eine „Vermutungsregel”, Verleger erringen einen Teilerfolg im Streit um die Tagesschau-App, in einer Anhörung plädieren Sachverständige für eine Ausweitung des Informationsfreiheitsgesetzes. Außerdem im Wochenrückblick: Juristentag, Vorratsdaten und „Scheiß RTL”-Shirts.

It’s hard to believe it’s been a week already since we witnessed the official opening of the 4Humanities Local Chapter at University College London. I published a post about it on HASTAC.

Simon Mahoney has kindly invited me to be a guest speaker on Monday 15th October 2012 at the Electronic Publishing module he teaches at University College London (UCL).

I’ve been commissioned to write an article about digital-only comics publications. I would like to know which are your favourite digital-only comics.

I published this post on 4Humanities, “Storifying #4Hum @ UCL: Showing the Arts and Humanities Matter”.

Almost exactly a year ago (in the hackathon of the Science Online London 2011 conference) I started the ScienceCard project. ScienceCard is a fork of the Open Source PLOS Article-Level Metrics (ALM) code, personalizing the Article-Level Metrics. A lot has happened in the last 12 months, most importantly that I started to work for PLOS as technical lead for the Article-Level Metrics project in May.

Tomorrow Tuesday 18th September I will be live blogging from “Showing the Arts and Humanities Matter”, a one day symposium at UCL.

Das Europäische Parlament beschließt die Richtlinie zu verwaisten Werken, die Piraten starten eine Petition gegen das Leistungsschutzrecht, EU-Digitalkommisarin Kroes kündigt eine Reform der Copyright-Richtlinie an. EU-Parlament beschließt Richtlinie zu verwaisten Werken Das Europäische Parlament hat am Donnerstag die Richtlinie über verwaiste Werke beschlossen.

I used Martin Hawksey’s TAGS V 3 to create a Google spreadsheet collecting all tweets tagged with #libroelectrónico. I wrote about it for 4Humanities.

We are inviting Networked Researcher contributors to participate with blog posts to be published during Open Access Week, October 22-28 2012.