SAGE Open: Open Access Journal for Social Scientists

SAGE has published it's first articles in their new Open Access journal for social scientists. More info at ResourceBlog's post.

Google Stops Digitizing Old Newspapers

On Friday, May 20th, Google announced that it had stopped digitizing old newspapers as publishers sought to make money off story archives instead of having them hosted free online.  People will still be able to find newspapers already converted to digital format in the Google News Archives at news.google.com/archivesearch but the collection won't grow.