Association of American Publishers welcomes DOE’s plan to expand public access to federally funded research - August 5, 2014
The Department of Energy (DOE) has announced its plan to implement public access to research funded by the agency, in response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) directive. This plan will be implemented for grants awarded after October 1, 2014 and… Read More
Library Copyright Alliance files amici brief in Authors Guild v. Google - August 4, 2014
The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) - the American Library Association (ALA), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) – recently filed an amici brief in the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Authors Guild v. Google in… Read More
World’s leading ICT standards organisations collaborate on emerging technologies - July 29, 2014
The 18th meeting of the Global Standards Collaboration (GSC), a senior-level gathering of the world's leading information and communication technologies (ICT) standards organisations, took place on July 22 – 23, 2014, hosted by ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) in Sophia Antipolis, France. GSC enhances co-operation… Read More
TISP launches policy recommendations: the first operational guidelines to boost innovation in book publishing and ICT - July 29, 2014
The TISP network (Technology Innovation for Smart Publishing), the European project coordinated by the Italian Publishers Association which gathers 25 organisations from 12 European countries, has released a set of policy recommendations, giving the publishing and technology sectors a common base at European level to foster… Read More
SCOAP3 repository now open for the community to harvest content through OAI-PMH feeds - July 21, 2014
The SCOAP3 repository is now open for the community to harvest content through OAI-PMH feeds. The SCOAP3 repository hosts Open Access articles published under the SCOAP3 initiative. It is built on Open Source software and has been recently featured at the Open Repository 2014 conference. The… Read More
Authors Guild v. HathiTrust: Implications for libraries - July 15, 2014
Jonathan Band, policybandwidth and legal counsel to the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA), recently released an analysis of the recent Authors Guild v. HathiTrust decision, "What Does the HathiTrust Decision Mean for Libraries?". As Band notes, 'The decision has implications for libraries that go far beyond the… Read More
