Down with E-Reserves - Andrew Albanese , Library Journal (10/1/2007)

Down with E-Reserves
Confusing, contentious, and vital, e-reserves fuel higher education—and an ongoing copyright battle
By Andrew Albanese -- Library Journal, 10/1/2007

"Although it claims the copying is in excess of what is permitted as fair use, the publishers do not offer a specific discussion of what it considers to be the bounds of fair use, nor does it adequately define course packs, nor offer any interpretation of the cited cases against copy shops, other than to broadly claim that they act as guiding precedence." Claire Stewart, Northwestern University

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6483876.html

Copyright lawsuit - Cambridge University Press et al v Carl V. Patton et al (GSU) (April 2008)

If you haven't kept up on the recent lawsuit against Georgia State regarding online course materials, an excellent, and pointed, summary is given (if I may be permitted to plug a local resource) by Claire Stewart at her Northwestern University Library Copyright blog
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/blog/nulcopyright/2008/04/what_does_the_lawsuit_against.html

Bob Michaelson
Northwestern University Library
Evanston, Illinois 60208
USA
rmichael@northwestern.edu

New Copyright Report from study group (on copyright in digital environment)

This meaty report is worth perusing, with implications for all of us (incl. ILL and digital preservation) if recommendations for legislative change are adopted and enacted.
http://www.section108.gov/docs/Sec108StudyGroupReport.pdf

American Libraries story on it:
http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/currentnews/newsarchive/2008/april2008/copyrightreport.cfm

"The Section 108 Study Group was co-chaired by Laura N. Gasaway,
associate dean for academic affairs at the University of North Carolina
School of Law, and Richard S. Rudick, former senior vice president and
general counsel of John Wiley and Sons. The Library of Congress acted as
a facilitator for the study group but had no influence over its
conclusions."

ACRL has slated an Onpoint Chat session April 29 on this:
http://www.acrl.org/ala/acrl/acrlproftools/OnPoint/onpoint.cfm#schedule

ALA Washington Office Section 108 Website:
http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/woissues/copyrightb/section108/Section108.cfm

RLG Partner Copyright Investigation Summary Report

RLG Partner Copyright Investigation Summary Report
is now available. This report summarizes interviews conducted between August and September 2007 with staff from eight partner institutions. Interviewees shared information about how and why institutions investigate and collect copyright evidence, both for mass digitization
projects and for items in special collections. This report is one of the deliverables of the Contribute to the Development of a Registry of Copyright Evidence Project
<http://www.oclc.org/programs/ourwork/infrastructures/newservice/copyright.htm> that is part of our Create New Structures and Service Areas
<http://www.oclc.org/programs/ourwork/infrastructures/newservice/default.htm> work agenda program.


Participating partner institutions and staff include:

Cornell University
Peter Hirtle

Emory University
Lisa Macklin

New York Public Library
Tom Lisanti

Rutgers University
Grace Agnew

Stanford University
Mimi Calter

University of California, Los Angeles
Angela Riggio

University of Michigan
Judy Aronheim

University of Texas at Austin
Dennis Dillon

RLG Programs is grateful to these partner institutions and staff for participating in this project and sharing their knowledge and perspectives to form the basis for this report.

You may link directly to the report here:
www.oclc.org/programs/publications/2008-01.pdf

Minor earthquake shakes Newport Beach area

By David Pierson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
March 27, 2008

A magnitude 3.1 earthquake was recorded near Newport Beach Thursday evening, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The temblor struck at 9:28 p.m. at an underground depth of 4.7 miles.

The earthquake's force was recorded as far as the Los Angeles Civic Center 36 miles away.

There were no reports of injuries.

Paper on Building Digital Libraries for Scientific Data

A 2006 paper presented at the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, "Building Digital Libraries for Scientific Data: An exploratory study of data practices in habitat ecology" appears to address many of the issues that were discussed at
the meeting in Philadelphia in January. Attitudes of scientists toward sharing data, presentability, cleanup and publishing are all addressed in this piece which is available at:

SUGGESTED CITATION:
C L. Borgman, Jillian C. Wallis, and Noel Enyedy, "Building Digital Libraries for Scientific Data: An Exploratory Study of Data Practices in Habitat Ecology" (September 1, 2006). UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. Publications. Paper ecdl06.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/gseis/pubs/ecdl06

ARL study of new model publications

Invitation to participate in ARL Study of Emerging New Model Publications

About the study

ARL is conducting a study of new kinds of scholarly works, generally described as new-model publications. A field study will begin April 1 that will engage librarian volunteers in interviewing faculty members at their institutions to learn about new model publications that are currently in use by scholars and researchers. ARL has contracted with Ithaka to manage the field study and to write a final report based on an analysis of the collected works. The field study will be open to participation by individual librarians and to libraries that wish to engage all of their liaison librarians. Participating librarians are asked to commit to conducting a minimum of one faculty member interview between April 1, 2008 and June 1, 2008. The database of collected works will be made available as a publicly accessible web resource with the release of the study’s final report, but during the field study phase only participants will have access to the information gathered.

Who can participate

Participation in the study is open to institutions and individuals. Libraries can partner in the field study by committing to participation by all of their liaison librarians. Individual librarians can volunteer to join the field study team. Three institutions are already partnering in the field study activities and are assisting in the development of training and support mechanisms for the field study team members. The University of British Columbia, Cornell University, and the University of Washington are playing this role.

Participation is also open to individual librarians willing to make the commitment to interview at least one faculty member at their institution. Participation is not limited to librarians at ARL member libraries. While a special invitation to participate is extended to alumni of the Institute on Scholarly Communication, any interested librarian can participate as an interviewer. Institute alumni should feel free to extend an invitation to participate to colleagues.

Why participate

Many librarians are initiating conversations with faculty members from their user communities to build understanding of their scholarly communication practices. Data collection for the field study provides a reason to initiate a conversation and a structure for a positive discussion of change in scholarly communication. The field study conversation can focus just on the study question or can be part of a more extended conversation covering additional topics of local concern. The time commitment is quite brief; field study participants can choose to speak to several faculty members or only one. The exploratory conversation can occur in a half hour or less while the other time commitments are for learning about the interview guide and entering any information gathered into a database of new model publications. The database will include only basic data from the interview or information that can be collected by inspecting the web publication.

How to register

To register as an individual field study team member complete the registration form at https://www.formspring.com/forms/?248527-DZgG1MAKU9.

Libraries wishing to partner in the field study should contact Karla Hahn karla@arl.org.

What is involved

To participate as a field study librarian, individuals will

· View an instructional webcast and otherwise familiarize themselves with the study interview guide.

· Interview at least one faculty member to identify new model publications in her/his research specialty.

· Enter basic information on new model publications identified by faculty members into the study’s database.

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Karla Hahn, Director

Office of Scholarly Communications

Association of Research Libraries

21 Dupont Circle

Washington, D.C. 20036

voice: 202-296-2296

fax: 202-872-0884

email: karla@arl.org