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- Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Key Principles on the Digitisation and Making Available of Out-of-Commerce Works – Frequently Asked Questions
- The Open Government Partnership: National Action Plan for the United States of America
- An open letter to J.R. Salamanca
- 3 Million Texts for Free
- Time To Move My Life Again
- Jan Reichelt, Connencting researchers with information - and unlocking it!
- John Wilbanks, Openphacts
- DOE Scientific Research Data Now Easier to Find
- Erfolgreiche Volltext-Plattform für die Erziehungswissenschaft — Open-Access-Angebot peDOCS kooperiert mit nahezu allen wichtigen Verlagen
- Open Government Declaration | Open Government Partnership
| Posted: 21 Sep 2011 06:10 AM PDT europa.eu From an important group of international library associations and publisher associations: "The MoU is a sector-specific stakeholder-driven agreement negotiated amongst organisations representing libraries on the one hand and publishers, authors and their collecting societies on the other. It contains the Key Principles that these parties will follow to license the digitisation and making available (including across borders in the EU) of books or learned journals that are out-of-commerce. It aims to encourage voluntary collective licences....Through voluntary agreements interested parties can negotiate mutually acceptable terms and conditions for the online exploitation of out-of-commerce works. This is preferable to legislation that could be too prescriptive and lack...flexibility....In the case of out-of-commerce works, the needs are different. These are the needs of "mass digitisation", for instance of important parts of a library's collection. We are trying to provide a licensing solution for works which, while normally being under copyright, are no longer in commerce. The challenge that must be addressed is how to facilitate these licenses, taking into account that often they will need to cover a large number of works and different right holders. This is what the MoU sets out to do....The MoU was signed by the European Writers’ Council (EWC), the Federation of European Publishers (FEP), the European Publishers' Council (EPC), the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA), the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL), the Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER), European Visual Artists (EVA), the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and the International Federation of Reprographic Rights Organisations (IFRRO)...." |
| The Open Government Partnership: National Action Plan for the United States of America Posted: 20 Sep 2011 06:53 PM PDT www.whitehouse.gov ""In many cases, the government has information that can be leveraged to help consumers make better decisions and to aid scientific research. To unlock the potential of this data, the U.S. will: ...Publish Guidelines on Scientific Data. We will develop Federal guidelines to promote the preservation, accessibility, and interoperability of scientific digital data produced through unclassified research supported wholly or in part by funding from the Federal science agencies...." |
| An open letter to J.R. Salamanca Posted: 20 Sep 2011 05:33 PM PDT Scholarly Communications @ Duke, (16 Sep 2011) "Earlier this week, only days after it filed its ill-advised lawsuit against the HathiTrust and five of Hathi’s partner universities, the Authors Guild gleefully announced that they had been able to find, with relative ease, the author of one of the books on Hathi’s initial list of orphan works. You, of course, were that author, and the work in question was your 1958 novel The Lost Country. It is not a comfortable position to be a pawn in a game of “gotcha,” especially when it involves litigation. What I want to say to you is the same thing I say to faculty authors at the institution where I work: “Consider carefully where your own best interests lie, and manage your copyright to serve those interests.” ..." |
| Posted: 20 Sep 2011 05:32 PM PDT Internet Archive Blogs, (17 Sep 2011) "Hundreds of libraries reached the milestone of offering 3 million freely downloadable texts yesterday through the Internet Archive website....Internet Archive has been scanning books since 2005. We have made approximately 2 million books from 1,000 libraries in 200 languages available online since that time. Another 1 million texts have been uploaded by others, including everything from original books to court records to scans from other digitization projects and 37,000 books from Project Gutenberg. More than 100 people digitize books in Internet Archive scanning centers in 27 libraries in 6 countries. At 10 cents a page, we are bringing over 1,000 new books online every day...." |
| Posted: 20 Sep 2011 05:29 PM PDT del-fi.org "Now it’s time for me to say yes to something else, and move on from my position as VP of Science at Creative Commons. I’ve launched a project called Consent to Research, which is being supported by the Kauffman Foundation, Sage Bionetworks, Lybba, and a few other organizations. The idea behind CtR is simple: make it easy for people who want to share data about themselves for scientific, medical, and health research to do so. It’s not centered on intellectual property, though it does touch on it. It’s more about privacy, and in particular, about making it possible for people to get informed about what is possible with their data and how beautiful research can emerge if enough genomes, enough biosamples, and enough other kinds of data can be shared and connected...." |
| Jan Reichelt, Connencting researchers with information - and unlocking it! Posted: 20 Sep 2011 05:25 PM PDT |
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| DOE Scientific Research Data Now Easier to Find Posted: 20 Sep 2011 12:28 PM PDT www.osti.gov "Researchers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) can now make their scientific research data easier to cite and easier to find from worldwide sources. The DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) is now registering publicly available scientific research datasets created by DOE-funded researchers through DataCite. OSTI, within the Office of Science, became a member of DataCite in January 2011 to facilitate access to DOE datasets. Through this membership, OSTI assigns permanent identifiers, known as Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), to the individual datasets to aid in citation, discovery, and retrieval. Creating stable pathways to these datasets makes the scientific process more accessible and the research more replicable for future discoveries...." |
| Posted: 20 Sep 2011 12:24 PM PDT From Google's English: "The open access platform peDOCS an offer from the German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF), now cooperates with more than 25 scientific publishers and education so that almost all major German publishing houses in the discipline. On this basis, on a larger scale pedocs relevant publications in the publishing version of the subject as a second publication freely available on the Internet. By embedding in the pedocs DIPF supervised by Education Portal obtain the full text both high visibility in the professional context as well as interdisciplinary and universal search engines. The open-access publishing and collaboration between the partners pedocs based on different models of secondary publication: Some of the partners release complete journal volumes, and thus the entire spectrum of historically relevant to more recent editions. Also out of print publications are made available on the platform again...." |
| Open Government Declaration | Open Government Partnership Posted: 20 Sep 2011 11:28 AM PDT www.opengovpartnership.org "We commit to promoting increased access to information and disclosure about governmental activities at every level of government. We commit to increasing our efforts to systematically collect and publish data on government spending and performance for essential public services and activities. We commit to pro-actively provide high-value information, including raw data, in a timely manner, in formats that the public can easily locate, understand and use, and in formats that facilitate reuse...." |
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