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- From: Pete Strickland <ps@iucr.org>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:38:22 +0100
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: OHIOLink and PLOS do a deal From Peter Suber's blog: The Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK) has struck an interesting deal with the Public Library of Science. For every faculty member in the 84 member institutions, OhioLINK will pay half the article processing fee charged by PLoS journals. Only six of the 84 colleges and universities are already institutional members of PLoS. From the June 2 press release: "Helen Doyle, PLoS director of development and strategic alliances, said the OhioLINK program would 'help to catalyze a widespread transition to open- access publishing in science and medicine.' Doyle told the LJ Academic Newswire that OhioLINK and PLoS had discussed extensively the possibility of making OhioLINK an institutional member, but settled instead on the current arrangement." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: First Interpretations of the EU Database Directive On June 8 Advocate General Christine Stix-Hackl of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has delivered Opinions concerning the interpretation of the database directive in no fewer than four cases that have been referred to the Court for preliminary rulings. Three deal with databases of football fixtures, while the fourth deals with a database of horse-racing data. All of these cases raise issues concerning the true import of Article 7 of the Directive. At this URL: http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2004/06/stix-hackl-pronounces-on-database.html you will find a detailed analysis of the opinion and the following are the initial reactions * One area of controversy is the result of updating an existing database: does it become a new database in respect of which a fresh period of 15 years protection may be enjoyed? The Advocate General advises that any ‘substantial change’ to the contents of a database which qualifies the database for its own term of protection means that the resulting database must be considered to be a “new, separate database”. This may be impossible to ascertain in practice: you can keep amending data on a database and it may change a great deal in terms of new content -- but can it ever be said to be “separate”? If incremental amendments are not adequately protected, however, the incentivve to make databases available may be greatly reduced. * The Advocate General has also advised that the requirement for a link between an investment and the making of the database must be interpreted in the sense that it refers, on the facts of the main proceedings, to investment which is directed at the determination of the dates of the matches and the match pairings themselves. This advice will be greatly welcomed by those who spend a lot of time on effort creating or ascertaining data which costs little or nothing to draw up in its final form. It would appear from these two reactions that the issues which most people expected would cause problems have done so - namely whether updating creates a new db and just how much investment is required to constitute a dab eligible for protection. The Advocate General's opinion is just that, an opinion, the Court is not required to follow it, but the general situation is that the Court tends to agree. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Site tracks EU Copyright Directive Implementation In 2001 the EU adopted a Directive which requires the EU Member States to protect in their national legislation technological measures which hinder acts as regards copyright protected material - for instance, technologies which control copying. Currently, the Member States have just implemented the protection of technological measures or are in the process of doing so. This site: http://www.euro-copyrights.org/ which you may want to bookmark, provides an overview of how the Directive has been or is being applied in the different Member States. For those States who have implemented the Directive there is an overview of how it was done and there is also a Forum to discuss the implementation. You can also register to receive email updates on new material added to the site. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: June issue of FORUM The latest issue of ICSTI FORUM is now available via our site. For a direct link, use the URL below. http://www.icsti.org/forum/46/index.html This issue is an overview of the recent ICSTI Public Conference that was hosted by The IEE at Savoy Place in London on May 17, 2004. Also, via this link is access to all the presentations made at the conference. CONTENTS Introduction ICSTI General Assembly and Public Conference By Martin Smith, Chairman of FORUM Editorial Board, Inspec, UK Session One – Open Access (Moderated by Sally Morris, CEO ALPSP) Open Access: Sustainable Business Models and Ethical Imperatives Hugh Look, Senior Consultant, Rightscom Limited Taking a Leaf out of Houdini’s Book Jan Velterop, Publisher, Bio Med Central Open Access, One More Challenge, One More Opportunity Mark Furneaux, Managing Director European Operations, CSA Europe Is open Access the Solution Prof Charles Oppenheim, Professor of Information Science, Loughborough University Session Two – Easily Accessible Content and Linking (Moderated by Barry Mahon, Executive Director, ICSTI) Links Add Value to Research Publications Tim Ingoldsby, Director of Business Development, American Institute of Physics The Role of Bibliographic Databases in Resource Discovery and Linking Process Andrea Powell, Product Development Director, CABI Publishing CrossRef: Virtual Integration for Scholarly Content Ed Pentz, Executive Director, CrossRef Digital Identification, the New ISBN Shane O’Neill, Managing Director, Parliaments, Assemblies and Official Publishing E Division, TSO Full Text Linking at Loughborough University, a User Perspective Chris Bigger, Academic Services Manager (Engineering), Loughborough University Session Three – Archiving, Content Preservation and Long Term Access (Moderated by Bernard Dumouchel, Director General Canadian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information) The Past is a Different Database, They do Things Differently There Jeff Pache, Inspec Electronic and Service Development Manager, The IEE An archive of Physics: 130 years of Scientific Research Online Tony O’Rourke, Assistant Director, Journals, Institute of Physics Publishing Limited, UK Digital Archiving at Elsevier Joep Verheggen, Managing Director, ScienceDirect ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Best wishes Peter Strickland Managing Editor IUCr Journals ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IUCr Editorial Office, 5 Abbey Square, Chester CH1 2HU, England Phone: 44 1244 342878 Fax: 44 1244 314888 Email: ps@iucr.org Ftp: ftp.iucr.org WWW: http://journals.iucr.org/ NEWSFLASH: Complete text of all IUCr journals back to 1948 now online! 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