« Discussions regarding an international copyright instrument for libraries and archives again collapsed inconclusively at the 28th meeting of the Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights (SCCR) in Geneva, from Monday 30 June – Friday 4 July. In the early hours of Saturday 5 July, Member States finally…
« Jonathan Band, policybandwidth and legal counsel to the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA), released on July 7, 2014, an analysis of the recent Authors Guild v. HathiTrust decision, “What Does theHathiTrust Decision Mean for Libraries?” (PDF). As Band notes, “The decision has implications for libraries that go far beyond the specific…
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Presentations & Posters
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« …Reinforcing the value of libraries as the hub for university research, ProQuest is transforming end-to-end researcher workflows by integrating Flow™, a research management and collaboration solution, with the Summon® discovery service. Serving as the digital front door to the library, the Summon service provides discovery of academic materials…
« Today, higher education and library organizations representing thousands of colleges, universities, and libraries nationwide released a joint set of Net Neutrality Principles (PDF) they recommend form the basis of an upcoming Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decision to protect the openness of the Internet. The groups believe…
« Nous clôturons la série de billets sur l’étude comparée des modèles de prêt numérique en bibliothèques en France et dans le monde. Ces analyses sont issues des travaux de recherche menés par Hans Dillaerts sur l’intégration du livre numérique dans l’offre de services des bibliothèques, dans le cadre…
« Nous poursuivons la série de billets sur l’étude comparée des modèles de prêt numérique en bibliothèques en France et dans le monde. Ces analyses sont issues des travaux de recherche menés par Hans Dillaerts sur l’intégration du livre numérique dans l’offre de services des bibliothèques, dans le cadre…
« Library ebook transactions remain too lengthy and complicated for patrons, especially in comparison with consumer ebook transactions, James English, product manager for the Library Simplified project at the New York Public Library (NYPL) said during his “EPUB: Walled Gardens and the Readium Foundation” presentation at the National Information…
« In July 2012, LIBER’s E-Science working group released ‘Ten recommendations for libraries to get started with research data management’. Since then, several libraries across Europe have started to build up or have expanded their capacities for research data management, typically combining e-infrastructure and support services (…)
…« … Our request has been laid out and explained in an open letter to Michiel Kolman, Senior VP Global Academic Relations at the academic publishing company.
We believe that Elsevier’s current TDM policy places unnecessary restrictions on researchers. It limits their ability, and their right, to…
