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- Botswana to develop policy to protect traditional knowledge
- Push for access to information
- ARL Releases "Resource Packet on Orphan Works: Legal and Policy Issues for Research Libraries" (Sept. 13, '11)
- Accused Of Copyright Infringement For Reprinting Images Produced In 630 A.D. | Techdirt
- Back to School: Rethinking the Textbook
- The Laboratorium: The Orphan Wars
- Authors Sue to Remove Books From Digital Archive - NYTimes.com
- What is public science, and why do you need it?
- Koninklijke Bibliotheek publiceert contract met Google
- 5 countries and EMBL sign Memorandum of Understanding to make ELIXIR a reality
- Principiile Panton
- University of Pennsylvania Faculty Open-Access Statement of Principles for Scholarly Articles
- Interview with Paul Conway, Assoc. Professor of Information, School of Information
- The era of closed science is over.
- Page Proofs ≠ Post-Prints; Websites ≠ Repositories | Jason Baird Jackson
- Google Book-Scanning Lawsuit Is Dropped by French Publishers - Bloomberg
- Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest
- OA Rhetoric, Economics, and the Definition of “Research”
- 2011 DuraSpace Sponsorship Program Update | DuraSpace
- ChemSpider Mobile now available for iOS devices
- Infrastructure schematic (1st draft) « Repository News
- UConn Libraries Join HathiTrust Digital Library | UConn Today
- Open Crystallography: How to start it and where should we base it?
- Open Access Opportunities in the Geosciences: "Green OA"
| Botswana to develop policy to protect traditional knowledge Posted: 13 Sep 2011 02:09 PM PDT www.scidev.net "Botswana is developing a policy to protect, preserve and promote its indigenous knowledge and mainstream it into the country's macro-economic framework. Development of the policy will involve identifying, documenting and gathering local traditional knowledge practices from areas including agriculture, health, culture and religious beliefs, and then feeding them into a legislative framework. The project, which started in February but was formally launched in June, has received nearly US$1 million from the government...." |
| Push for access to information Posted: 13 Sep 2011 01:58 PM PDT mg.co.za "Media freedom activists, academics, policymakers, editors and nongovernmental organisations will join forces at a conference in Cape Town this month, which aims to yield a declaration on access to information in the mould of the watershed Windhoek Declaration on press freedom...." |
| Posted: 13 Sep 2011 01:54 PM PDT Association of Research Libraries - Full Feed, (13 Sep 2011) "Today the Association of Research Libraries released a "Resource Packet on Orphan Works: Legal and Policy Issues for Research Libraries." Prepared by Prudence Adler, Jonathan Band, and Brandon Butler, the resource packet provides general information on legal and policy issues concerning orphan works and the University of Michigan’s Orphan Works Project, an FAQ, and a legal memorandum by Jonathan Band, policybandwidth, which describes the legal issues associated with making orphan works digitally available. While not a comprehensive response to or analysis of the lawsuit filed yesterday by three authors’ groups and eight individual authors against HathiTrust and five of its partners, this packet will help readers understand some of the core issues in that suit, including the scope and applicability of fair use to orphan works...." |
| Accused Of Copyright Infringement For Reprinting Images Produced In 630 A.D. | Techdirt Posted: 13 Sep 2011 01:48 PM PDT www.techdirt.com " 'These manuscripts were created between 600 and 900 A.D. and are firmly in the public domain. Even if they were not, printing pages and cutout bits from pages for an educational paper almost certainly constitutes fair use, which the printer had never heard of....' It's really troubling just how frequently we hear similar stories where people simply don't believe the public domain exists any more. They have it beaten into them so hard that everything is covered by copyright, and they're so scared of being accused of infringement that they can't even seem to fathom that there are works out there that you don't need permission to copy. It's pretty sad...." |
| Back to School: Rethinking the Textbook Posted: 13 Sep 2011 01:43 PM PDT |
| The Laboratorium: The Orphan Wars Posted: 13 Sep 2011 01:40 PM PDT laboratorium.net "Just when I thought that the Google Books case might be tailing off towards an anticlimactic, unresolved ending — bam! The Authors Guild today filed suit against the HathiTrust, the library partnership holding many of the scans received from Google. You have to say this for authors: they sure know how to time a plot twist for maximum dramatic impact. I’ll give a quick summary of the important facts about the lawsuit, and then a few thoughts about what it means....One might well ask, why now? Google started scanning and giving copies to the libraries in late 2004. The same basic lawsuit could have been filed at any time in the last seven years. Initially, the libraries were unattractive defendants. Not only did their non-commercial status bolster their case, but the public universities were likely shielded by sovereign immunity, which makes it impossible to get money damages from a state government. Google, with its deep pockets and extensive commercialization, was a much better target. Then, as the lawsuit turned into a settlement, the libraries were brought in on the talks, and ultimately became partners in propounding the settlement. (At the fairness hearing, Michigan’s Paul Courant argued on the same side as the Authors Guild’s lawyers.) If there had been a settlement, it would have gone a long way to define what libraries could and couldn’t do. The settlement would have explicitly permitted the kinds of backups and storage that the HathiTrust is engaged in. It wouldn’t have reached the type of orphan works distribution that the universities now propose to make, but the existence of the Institutional Subscription would have made that issue moot for the participating libraries....Thus, I surmise that the Google Books talks have broken down irreparably. The authors now have nothing to lose there by alienating the libraries they were until recently working with....[T]he complaint...emphasizes the millions of books in the HathiTrust, rather than the hundreds in the actual orphan pipeline. There’s a reason for this. If the Authors Guild sued only to stop the orphan works displays, it would likely lack standing to bring the suit, since none of its members would be harmed by having their specific books displayed.... The Authors Guild has staked a tremendous amount of its institutional legitimacy on big copyright lawsuits. After the Authors Guild and Literary Works settlements were both rejected in the same year, it might have looked for an exit strategy. Instead, it doubled down — and whom did it sue? Not the multinational publishers, not Googlezon, but the cuddly lil’ old libraries. Perhaps this suit will vindicate the strategy and bolster authors’ standing in the world of electronic books, but it could also turn them into the party of no....This suit also upends many of the conversations taking place around the Digital Public Library of America...." |
| Authors Sue to Remove Books From Digital Archive - NYTimes.com Posted: 13 Sep 2011 01:34 PM PDT www.nytimes.com "Three major authors’ groups and eight individual authors filed suit against a partnership of research libraries and five universities on Monday, arguing that their initiative to digitize millions of books constituted copyright infringement. The lawsuit, filed in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, contends that “by digitizing, archiving, copying and now publishing the copyrighted works without the authorization of those works’ rights holders, the universities are engaging in one of the largest copyright infringements in history.” The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are the Authors Guild, the Australian Society of Authors and the Québec Union of Writers. Individual authors include Pat Cummings, Roxana Robinson and T. J. Stiles...." |
| What is public science, and why do you need it? Posted: 13 Sep 2011 01:14 PM PDT io9.com "Did you use a browser to zoom around on the internet today? Have you ever been vaccinated? If you answered yes to either of those questions, your life has already been made better through publicly-funded science in America. Public science is basic scientific research funded by governments, and just in America alone it's led to breakthroughs in everything from medicine to clean energy. But now public science is under threat....The US government has pledged to deal with the nation's debt crisis by cutting social spending. On the chopping block are many many social programs, including some of the country's most important government-funded science institutions...." |
| Koninklijke Bibliotheek publiceert contract met Google Posted: 13 Sep 2011 10:49 AM PDT www.informatieprofessional.nl From Google's English: "On July 14, 2010 signed the Royal Library (KB) and Google a contract for the digitization of 160,000 duty free books from the collection of the KB. Both parties have extensive publicity given to their websites and through the press, and questions about the content of the cooperation always answered. Following a request granted in Britain to see the details of the contract between the British Library and Google to make public under the Freedom of Information act, the KB has now two requests under the Act on the public administration (SUI) received the contents of its contract with Google to reveal. It is not customary for the KB publishes contracts with partners, while there are no compelling interests in the way of general announcement. The KB has decided the WOB requests to honor, and the contract (PDF) available to interested parties...." |
| 5 countries and EMBL sign Memorandum of Understanding to make ELIXIR a reality Posted: 13 Sep 2011 10:31 AM PDT www.eurekalert.org "Today marks an important step for ELIXIR, Europe's emerging research infrastructure for life-science information, as five countries plus the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to catalyse the implementation and construction of ELIXIR. The memorandum has been signed by Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom, and more countries are planning to join in the near future. All European countries are invited to engage with ELIXIR. ELIXIR is a pan-European initiative to operate a sustainable infrastructure for managing and safeguarding biological information in Europe. It will secure public access to information about the building blocks of life, including genes, proteins and complex networks. This will support life science research and its translation to medicine and the environment, the bio-industries and society to deliver economic growth. Consistent with the movement towards open access to data and publications, ELIXIR will make important information freely available to researchers across academia and industry...." |
| Posted: 13 Sep 2011 08:35 AM PDT The Panton Principles for Open Data in Science have been translated into Romanian. |
| University of Pennsylvania Faculty Open-Access Statement of Principles for Scholarly Articles Posted: 13 Sep 2011 07:27 AM PDT www.upenn.edu "Every person who conducts research at the University of Pennsylvania is strongly encouraged to grant to the University of Pennsylvania nonexclusive permission to make publicly available his or her scholarly articles for the purpose of open dissemination. Effective as of the date of endorsement by the Faculty Senate, faculty and other researchers will be invited, at their discretion, to grant to the University of Pennsylvania a nonexclusive, irrevocable, paid-up, worldwide right and license to exercise any and all rights necessary under copyright to reproduce, distribute, display and otherwise disseminate, in any medium now known or hereinafter invented, each of his or her scholarly articles, provided that the scholarly articles are not sold or licensed by the University for compensation, and to authorize others to do the same on the same terms and with the same limitations....If a Penn faculty author (or if no Penn faculty member is an author, the submitting author) requests an embargo, the Penn Libraries will embargo the scholarly article for the requested time period, before making it available to the public, except when (1) the author has a legal obligation to make the scholarly article publicly available within an earlier time period, the embargo should not exceed that earlier time period; or (2) the publisher of the publication within which such scholarly article appears makes such scholarly article freely available to the public for further reproduction or distribution, the embargo period should terminate...." |
| Interview with Paul Conway, Assoc. Professor of Information, School of Information Posted: 13 Sep 2011 06:08 AM PDT |
| The era of closed science is over. Posted: 13 Sep 2011 06:06 AM PDT open-science.pen.io Also called the "Open science manifesto". Undated but apparently recent. |
| Page Proofs ≠ Post-Prints; Websites ≠ Repositories | Jason Baird Jackson Posted: 13 Sep 2011 06:00 AM PDT |
| Google Book-Scanning Lawsuit Is Dropped by French Publishers - Bloomberg Posted: 13 Sep 2011 05:58 AM PDT www.bloomberg.com "Three French publishers dropped a 9.8 million-euro ($13.8 million) lawsuit against Google Inc. (GOOG) over books scanned by the search-engine company. Editions Albin Michel SA, Editions Gallimard SA and Flammarion made the decision in order to resume negotiations to reach a deal on scanning copyright-protected works for Google’s digital library....Google, based in Mountain View, California, has reached agreements with Lagardere SCA (MMB)’s Hachette Livre and La Martiniere Groupe publishers to allow the scanning of out-of-print French books since losing a copyright dispute with the latter in 2009...." |
| Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest Posted: 13 Sep 2011 05:56 AM PDT Carrollogos, (08 Sep 2011) "At American University, we recently hosted an amazing gathering of about 170 thoughtful experts on intellectual property law from around the world to chart policy proposals that would make intellectual property law better serve its role in society. This inaugural Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest discussed and debated a range of policy initiatives that would better adapt and rebalance the rights and obligations of rightsholders and the public. There are many feasible opportunities, but recently, the attention of some policymakers has been turned toward misguided or ham-handed enforcement proposals. So, it's time to change the conversation. Please help by signing the Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest...." |
| OA Rhetoric, Economics, and the Definition of “Research” Posted: 13 Sep 2011 05:48 AM PDT |
| 2011 DuraSpace Sponsorship Program Update | DuraSpace Posted: 13 Sep 2011 05:46 AM PDT duraspace.org "A few months ago, DuraSpace, an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, launched its 2011 Sponsorship Program to engage leaders from university and library communities in supporting the common goal of ensuring that our scholarly record of digital content and data is saved and accessible for future generations....DuraSpace is pleased to report that we currently have 50 organizations that have chosen to become sponsors this year. Of the 50 organizations participating so far this year, 16 are new sponsors...." |
| ChemSpider Mobile now available for iOS devices Posted: 13 Sep 2011 05:45 AM PDT www.chemspider.com "The free ChemSpider mobile app developed in collaboration with Alex Clark (innovator of the Mobile Molecular DataSheet, Reaction101 and Yield101) is now available for download from the iTunes store! The full details of the app, and some associated screenshots, are outlined on the SciMobileApps wiki here. A brief overview is given below…" |
| Infrastructure schematic (1st draft) « Repository News Posted: 13 Sep 2011 05:43 AM PDT repositorynews.wordpress.com "There are several significant developments that will impact on our repository / research management / OER dissemination and discovery [at Leeds Metropolitan University] over the next 12 months or so…briefly these are: ..." |
| UConn Libraries Join HathiTrust Digital Library | UConn Today Posted: 13 Sep 2011 05:41 AM PDT today.uconn.edu "The UConn [University of Connecticut] Libraries have become the newest member of HathiTrust Digital Library, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating to compile a massive digital library of published scholarship...." |
| Open Crystallography: How to start it and where should we base it? Posted: 13 Sep 2011 05:40 AM PDT |
| Open Access Opportunities in the Geosciences: "Green OA" Posted: 13 Sep 2011 04:09 AM PDT Open Access Opportunities in the Geosciences Green OA article ScholarsArchive at Oregon State University, (18 Aug 2011) In J. B. Foote (Ed.), Navigating the Geoscience Information Landscape : Pathways to Success (Vol. 40, pp. 96-101). Alexandria, VA: Geoscience Information Society. From the Abstract: Green Open Access provides an opportunity to balance a scholar’s need to publish in respected journals with the importance of widespread distribution of research. Authors, publishers, and repository managers can work together to ensure widespread access to high quality research. The author will describe “Green OA” vs. “Gold OA”, highlighting opportunities that are available to many authors through institutional and in some cases subject repositories, and review publishers and their associated high-impact journals for their support of Green Open Access. |
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