Copyright Clearance Center’s new Rights Delivery Platform to streamline rights acquisition process - March 2, 2011
Non-profit copyright licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), US, has launched its Rights Delivery Platform, allowing 'one-stop shop' access to hundreds of millions of additional rights previously available only through RightsLink installations. For the first time, customers can now order reprints from Elsevier, Springer,… Read More
Copyright should evolve in line with technological changes, says WIPO head - February 28, 2011
Copyright needs to evolve to current technological realities or risk becoming irrelevant, Francis Gurry, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), has said. There was no 'single magical answer' to the development of a successful policy response to the challenges facing copyright in the… Read More
Chinese authorities determined to increase supervision and peer evaluation of academic journals - February 28, 2011
Chinese authorities have reportedly ordered a number of academic journals and magazines to cease publication. In a new attack on sub-standard academic papers in China, the General Administration of Press and Publications (GAPP), the government agency that regulates overseas news and other publications, decided to penalise… Read More
Google’s Belgian case seen to determine future of search engines in Europe - February 24, 2011
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, is reportedly fighting a Belgian ruling that will bar the company from publishing links to local newspapers on its online news service, Google News. The hearing could decide the fate of search engines and referencing services in Europe, according… Read More
APS announces new alternative for Physical Review journal authors to pay article-processing charges - February 16, 2011
The American Physical Society has announced that as of February 15, 2011, authors in most Physical Review journals will have a new alternative to pay an article-processing charge whereby their accepted manuscripts will be available barrier-free and open access on publication. These manuscripts will be published… Read More
VoIP sues Google over ‘stealing’ of trade secrets - February 15, 2011
Technology communications company VoIP, Inc., US, has reportedly filed a lawsuit against Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, in the New York Supreme Court. The company is accusing Google of stealing its trade secrets related to online voice technology. The legal action stems from… Read More
Academic paper raises concerns on Google Books’ privacy policy - February 14, 2011
Elisabeth A. Jones and Joseph W. Janes of the Information School at the University of Washington recently published an academic paper about the privacy implications of the Google Books project. The paper is entitled 'Anonymity in a World of Digital Books: Google Books, Privacy, and the… Read More
FTC Commissioner expresses concern over Do Not Track tool from Google, Microsoft - February 11, 2011
J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner of the US' Federal Trade Commission (FTC), has reportedly expressed concern over the privacy solutions unveiled by US-based Google, Inc. and Microsoft Corp. for their respective browsers. The features may actually work to the companies' benefit at the… Read More
Medical journal bans advertisements paid for by pharmaceutical companies - February 3, 2011
Australian medical journal Emergency Medicine Australasia has reportedly stopped all drug advertising forthwith over concerns that it could unduly influence doctors. The journal has called on similar publications to do the same. Emergency Medicine Australasia is the journal of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. … Read More
‘Wall Street Journal’ files lawsuit seeking public access to Medicare database - January 27, 2011
Dow Jones & Company, the publisher of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), recently filed papers to overturn a 31-year-old court injunction that blocks public access to records containing evidence of Medicare fraud and the doctors behind it. The company's filing in… Read More
