« WE ALL REGULARLY SIGN, CLICK, SAY “OK,” or otherwise agree to a variety of contracts in our daily lives. For most of us, having the time to review them in detail is out of the question. But if you are an author, a book publication contract (also called a publishing…
« Scientific publishers are extending their legal actions against networking site ResearchGate. In the latest move, the American Chemical Society and Elsevier filed a lawsuit on Oct. 2 in a U.S. federal court alleging copyright…
« The new Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Software Preservation provides clear guidance on the legality of archiving legacy software to ensure continued access to digital files of all kinds and to illuminate the history of technology.
This Code was made by and for the…
« HathiTrust has reached a tremendous milestone in the history of HathiTrust and the HathiTrust Research Center’s services.
Since 2011, HTRC has been developing services and tools to allow researchers to employ text and data mining methodologies using the HathiTrust collection. To date, this service has been available only on the…
« The European Parliament has finally agreed on its position on the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive. (…)
From the libraries’ point of view, there are several other articles that were amended and represent an improvement to the previous text proposed by the Commission. There is a mandatory exception…
« STM Statement on DSM Vote in European Parliament STM has issued a statement following today’s vote on the DSM package in the European Parliament »
« Science Europe is disappointed that the European Parliament did not sufficiently improve the far too restrictive proposal by the European Commission for text and data mining in Article 3 of the new Directive on Copyright, in today’s plenary vote.
Text and data mining (TDM) is an innovative way of reading…
« Research and innovation organisations call on the European Parliament to revise Article 3 on Text and Data Mining (TDM) ahead of its vote on the EU Copyright Directive on 12 September. (…) »
« On July 5th, 2018, we had the opportunity to interview two esteemed individuals within the field of copyright—Dr. Jane Secker and Mr. Chris Morrison. Dr. Secker is a senior lecturer in educational development at City, University of London and Mr. Morrison is the copyright software licensing and information services policy…
« Whilst take-up of open access (OA) in the UK is growing rapidly due partly to a number of funder mandates, managing the complexities of balancing compliance with these mandates against restrictive publisher policies and ingrained academic priorities, has resulted in UK higher education institutions (HEIs) often struggling with confused researchers,…
