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- Subject: ICSTI: news items
- From: Pete Strickland <ps@iucr.org>
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 17:18:31 +0100
- Organization: IUCr
- Reply-To: ps@iucr.org, "IUCr Committee on Electronic Publishing, Dissemination and Storage of Information" <epc@iucr.org>
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Subject: Fwd: New Study on Fair Use - Australia
Date: Sunday 15 May 2005 9:45 am
From: Barry Mahon <barry.mahon@IOL.IE>
To: ICSTI_MEMBERS-L@DTIC.MIL
Dear All,
This is forwarded from Bernard Dumouchel, Chair of ICSTI's Information Policy
Committee. Bernard feels Members will be interested in this work and also
that copyright should be a topic for ICSTI Members to keep under review.
If you have opinions or suggestions please communicate them to Bernard -
Bernard.Dumouchel@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca -
Bye, Barry
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New Study on Fair Use
The Australian Attorney General has just released an Issues Paper entitled
"Fair Use and Other Copyright Exceptions." The paper is a must-read for
anyone interested in fair dealing and fair use issues. It was prepared to
elicit comments on the options it proposes.
Extract:
"The issues paper outlines the nature of copyright under the Copyright Act,
the nature of and rationale for exceptions and the impact of relevant
international obligations. It then discusses fair dealing exceptions under
the Act and proposals for reform made in reports by the Copyright Law Review
Committee (CLRC) and the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties (JSCOT). ‘Fair
use’ under US copyright law – the focus of the review – is discussed, along
with comparable exceptions under European Community (EC) directives and under
the national laws of the UK, New Zealand and Canada. The use of technological
protection measures and of new forms of consumer contracts to restrict access
to exceptions is referred to. The paper concludes by raising a number of
possible options for reform. A table of the existing exceptions and statutory
licences under the Copyright Act is an attachment to the paper"
http://aufairusepaper.notlong.com/
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Subject: ....and departures at Ingenta
Date: Saturday 14 May 2005 11:43 am
From: Barry Mahon <barry.mahon@IOL.IE>
To: ICSTI-L@DTIC.MIL
Also according to Scholarly Commmunications Report, Geoff Bilder, Sam Phillips
and Patrick Cooke have left Ingenta.
Will the last person working in STI please switch off the lights when they
go......
Bye, Barry
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Subject: Research councils' requirements could bankrupt academic journals --
Mayor 330 (7497): 923 -- BMJ
Date: Saturday 14 May 2005 11:39 am
From: Barry Mahon <barry.mahon@IOL.IE>
To: ICSTI-L@DTIC.MIL
This is an extract from an item in the BMJ reacting to the (draft) proposal
from the UK Research Councils suggesting that grantees be mandated to deposit
their articles in free repositories
<URL: http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/extract/330/7497/923-a >
"Research councils' requirements could bankrupt academic journals
London; Susan Mayor
Journal publishers are concerned that a new proposal that requires all
researchers who receive public research funding to post their results on
publicly accessible electronic databases will lead to the financial collapse
of many academic journals.
The proposal is in a consultation document from the Research Councils UK,
which represents the eight research councils in the United Kingdom, including
the Medical Research Council. The document considers the dissemination of,
and access to, research outputs in the form of journal articles and
conference proceedings.
The document says that ideas and knowledge derived from research funded with
public money must be made available and accessible for public use,
interrogation, and scrutiny, as widely, rapidly, and effectively as
practicable.
To achieve this, it proposes that research councils require any researcher
awarded a grant from 1 October 2005 to deposit any resulting journal article
or conference "in an appropriate e-print repository . . ."
If you are not a registered user you'll have to pay to read the rest....
Bye, Barry
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Subject: Bridget Taxy leaves Elsevier
Date: Saturday 14 May 2005 11:39 am
From: Barry Mahon <barry.mahon@IOL.IE>
To: ICSTI-L@DTIC.MIL
According to Scholarly Communications Report, Bridget has left Elsevier. I
received an email from her a while back asking me to change her email address
but with no explanation.
Scholarly Communcations Report also says that Kathryn Grant, Jacquie Shanahan
and Neil Warnock-Smith are also leaving Elsevier.
Bye, Barry
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Subject: Guardian Unlimited | Online | Medical researchers bankroll innovative
online database
Date: Saturday 14 May 2005 9:02 am
From: Barry Mahon <barry.mahon@IOL.IE>
To: ICSTI-L@DTIC.MIL
From the UK Newspaper The Guardian, a report on the formation of UK PubMed
Central.
Extract:
"It will enable academic researchers to post papers published either online or
in subscription-based scientific journals, on a single searchable database
which anybody can access free.
The project is being bankrolled by a group of medical funders including the
Wellcome Trust, the British Heart Foundation and the Arthritis Research
Campaign with the support of the Joint Information Systems Committee, an
expert advisory body indirectly funded by government.
The group yesterday called for organisations interested in running the
database to submit tenders for the project by June 10"
<URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1480999,00.html?gusrc=rss
>
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Best wishes
Peter Strickland
Managing Editor
IUCr Journals
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