"The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. Some 200 institutions representing higher education, publishing, network and telecommunications, information technology, and libraries and library organizations make up CNI's Members"
The above article is a PR address from the Association of American Publishers regarding the infringement lawsuit brought up on Georgia State University by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and SAGE Publications. The document gives the reasons why these three publishers felt it necessary to bring up charges against GSU and why it is important that the copyright they hold over their published works is important (mainly because of the significant funds they spend publishing their works).
http://publishers.org/main/PressCenter/documents/GSUlawsuitcomplaint.pdf
The above link directs you to the legal complaint in its original form. Using the above legal cliam and the press release to help decipher and guide me through this legal document will help me to better understand why the publishers feel they have been wronged by Georgia State University. The infringements listed by Georgia State University have most assuredly been facilitated by the library/libraries of GSU or at least exacerbated by the library/libraries.
I will use the above article as a way of understanding what was it exactly that publishers feel are significant reasons to bring up suit against an entity. By examining the stated reasons for the lawsuit, I could further research as to what could be done to eliminate the possibility of being sued for supplying copyrighted works to students, faculty, and staff by the university library. The above articles will help me to define in my essay what is sufficient cause for a publisher to take up suit against a university / library.
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Note: Lexis Nexis doesn't give persistent links (or else I am unable to find where they do) in order to retrieve this article simply search for "a lay perspective on the copyright wars" with only the legal box checkmarked and it will be the first result.
In this Lecture, Columbia University's University Librarian, James G. Neal, addresses the current environment of libraries in regards to copyright and open access. Neal's lecture mostly addresses the findings of the 108 Study Group which was formed to research copyright. Neal explains the current state of copyright, the findings of the 108 Study Group, and the framework necessary in order to facilitate a more open environment for publications and libraries. Neal's lecture defines the library as an all encompassing entity which disseminates information, a center for research, a publisher in its own right. Because of the library's role as a center for just about everything scholarly, the library has a vision of embracing legacy as well as current trends. The library is an information repository and a portal to information. Serving so many roles simultaneously makes the library at the forefront of the copyright war.
In my essay it will be important to state why it is the duty of the librarian to rebel against copyright in order to push for more open access. Neal helps define the library as the center of the copyright war, the very front of the action. By citing Neal and his 108 Study Group's findings, I will be able to convey the importance of the librarian to stand up against copyright in order to defend the very embodiment and idea of the library itself. Neal's article also gives information on the opninion of librarians and library organizations on the issue of copyright and open access. Using some of this information will help me to define how to faciliate a better enviornment for the sharing of intellectual materials.
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Portal designed to aggregate material to provide training, knowledge development, and skills for the implementing of OA repositories and OA journals.
tagged access awards digitization_grants foundations funded_proposals institutional_repository scholarly_communication sloan technology by cvonelm ...on 04-NOV-08
The aim of this program is to increase access to human knowledge and the fruits of human culture while developing a better framework for understanding the information economy. To date, the program has primarily encouraged digitizing material in the public domain; assuring public archiving, preservation and open access of this material; and fostering its availability to people everywhere through such technologies as books on demand. The technology now exists for universal access to the sum of all knowledge. The potential benefit to humanity is enormous, but it needs to be done in a truly open and non-exclusive basis, with the emphasis on the public good.
tagged access digitization_grants foundations institutional_repository scholarly_communication sloan technology by cvonelm ...on 04-NOV-08
Scholarly Communications program focuses broadly on all stages in the life cycle of scholarly resources. The program complements fellowships and other kinds of support for research and teaching at research universities, independent research centers, libraries, and museums by promoting the cost-effective creation, dissemination, accessibility, and preservation of high-quality scholarly resources in humanistic studies broadly defined.
Grantmaking occurs principally in five main categories: new methods of creating scholarly resources, innovations in scholarly publication, cataloging and other forms of access, preservation, and research and evaluation. The Foundation is especially interested in developments that:
- Use forms of scholarly communications to stimulate collaborations among scholars and scholarly institutions in ways that substantially advance knowledge;
- Foster the means economically to sustain forms of scholarly communication; and
- Apply technology to forms of scholarly communications in order to improve quality, lower costs, speed up work, open new perspectives, or make work possible that would otherwise be difficult or impossible.
tagged access digitization_grants foundations institutional_repository mellon scholarly_communication by cvonelm ...on 04-NOV-08
Research in Information Technology (RIT) is dedicated to supporting the thoughtful application of information technology to a wide range of scholarly purposes. The Foundation is interested in promoting the study of uses of digital technologies that can be applied to research and online and distance learning and teaching. The Foundation also supports investigations of new technical approaches to the archiving of textual and multimedia materials that require improved search and storage techniques and improvements in user-interfaces. The impact of information technology (and especially digitization) on scholarship, scholarly communication, and libraries is indisputable.
The Foundation seeks proposals related to technology that benefits one or more of its constituencies and/or multiple institutions, can realistically be developed by the grantee within the proposed timeframe and budget, provides a significant cost savings, is shareable, reliable, and objectively assessible, and has available IP.
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's annual report this year
features a lengthy essay on the Foundation's initiatives in the
area of scholarly communications, by Donald J. Waters and Joseph
S. Meisel.
"A compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large. By bringing many OA-related lists together in one place, OAD will make it easier for users, especially newcomers, to discover them and use them for reference. The easier they are to maintain and discover, the more effectively they can spread useful, accurate information about OA." Founded by Peter Suber and Robin Peek.
This study explores faculty deposits in
institutional repositories (IR) within selected
disciplines and identifies the diverse navigational
paths to IR sites from library Web site
homepages. The statistical relationship between
the development of an IR and the presence of a
Web site dedicated to the reform of traditional
scholarly communication is also explored. The
implications for the development of institutional
repositories are highlighted.
NSF-funded project managed by Purdue. Simulation tools, presentations/classes, community.
"A considerable portion of the scholarly record is born digital, and some scholarship is produced in digital formats that have no physical, in-the-hand counterparts. The proliferation of digital scholarship raises serious and pressing issues about how to organize, access, and preserve it in perpetuity. The response of academic institutions has been to build and deploy institutional repositories (IRs) to manage the digital scholarship their learning communities produce."
Alexander, Bryan. "Web 2.0. A New Wave of Innovation For Teaching and Learning" EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 41, no. 2 (March/April 2006): 32–44.
pg 33
"The idea dates as far back as the 1960s and JCR Licklider’s thoughts on using networked computing to connect people in order to boost their knowledge and their ability to learn."
The new ways of using the web are about manipulation of content and participation by readers.
pg 34
Describes the importance of "microcontent" for users, who can move around the web. Microcontent is of course not new, and can be seen to go back to email messages, etc.
Tying the use of microcontent and user participation together with user-created metadata, such as tags and folksonomies. [With all of this microcontent out there to be manipulated, and all of these ways of manipulating it, users need to be able to tag the content with terms to help them retrieve them, as they can not count on remembering which bit of microcentent came from where, etc.]
pg 35 -end.
Introduces and describes delicious, mentioning people connecting to each other through metadata. mentions penntags and h20 and then moves on to wikis and writely.
moves on to blogs and rss, moves on to blog searching, technorati, memeorandom, etc. to digg, ohmynews. then onto sites that let users combine these, like gnosh and rollyo. Raises the question of how universities will deal with this: (Pg 42) "How will colleges and universities consider preserving such small pieces of intellectual work, especially as the works migrate across multiple, shifting, changing platforms?"
Then raises questions about copyright, etc.
This is a listing of important and interesting articles, blogs, and webpages that discuss open access and copyright issues on campuses throughout the United States.
Call#: Van Pelt Library KF3024.M32 T76 2005
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Call#: Engineering Library KF2995 .C74 2006
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Scholarly Communication: Information about journal prices, copyright, open access, and more
Scholarly communication is the lifeblood of the university. The dissemination of knowledge is an imperative of land grant universities like Illinois. Anything that threatens access to, or the free flow of, research and ideas is a threat to the health of the entire system
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"ALPSP serves, represents and strengthens the community of not-for-profit publishers, demonstrating their essential role in the future of international academic and professional communication."



