EC aims to expand digital library Europeana amidst challenges - September 2, 2009
The European Commission (EC), in a policy document, has declared as its target to bring the number of digitised objects in Europe's multilingual digital library, Europeana, to 10 million by 2010. The EC has also opened a public debate on the future challenges for book digitisation… Read More
Open Book Alliance formed to counter Google Book Settlement - September 1, 2009
Librarians, legal scholars, authors, publishers and technology companies have announced the formation of a coalition – the Open Book Alliance – that will counter the proposed Google Book Settlement in its current form. The proposed settlement is between Google, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and… Read More
SLA joins alliance calling for investigation into US Google Books Settlement - August 26, 2009
The Special Libraries Association (SLA), a non-profit organisation, has announced that it has joined a newly formed Open Books Alliance calling for investigation into the Google Books Settlement. The alliance seeks resolution on issues of copyright, access, anti-trust and privacy. It brings together non-profits, library groups,… Read More
‘PLoS Medicine’ makes public documents related to Wyeth ghostwriting case - August 25, 2009
Open access journal PLoS Medicine has placed in the public domain all documents – around 1,500 - released after the intervention of the journal and The New York Times in the Prempro case. The documents are available on the PLoS Medicine website at Read More
European publishers express concern over Google’s US digital repository deal - August 14, 2009
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, is facing growing opposition in Europe to its legal settlement in the US with book publishers and authors, media reports have indicated. This is expected to create a fresh challenge to a deal that could help determine the future… Read More
Brill selects CCC’ Rightslink service to automate online permissions - August 11, 2009
Copyright licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), US, has announced that Netherlands-based scholarly publisher, Brill, has chosen CCC's Rightslink point-of-content licensing solution to enable customers to obtain reuse permissions directly from Brill's website at http://www.brill.nl. Brill required a solution that both… Read More
IIPA report emphasises importance of copyright industries to US economy - July 22, 2009
A report prepared under the auspices of the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) stresses the continuing and increasingly valuable economic contributions of various copyright industries to the US economy. Tom Allen, President and CEO of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) joined with other representatives of the US copyright industries… Read More
CCC and QUOSA accelerate Literature Management Workflows via Integrated Rights Management - June 29, 2009
Copyright licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), US, and literature management software specialists, QUOSA, Inc. have announced an integration that will enable their common customers to benefit from CCC's rights advisory and management tool, Rightsphere, directly within QUOSA's literature management platform. The integration enables QUOSA… Read More
Class action evidence shows Elsevier staff consulted with Merck on Vioxx content - June 23, 2009
Staff at STM publisher Elsevier reportedly e-mailed pharmaceutical manufacturer Merck, asking it to select the content it wanted published about its anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx in the Elsevier journal Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine. This has been revealed by documents tendered to a US Federal… Read More
QUOSA, TDNet integrate CCC’s rights advisory tool into knowledge management applications - June 18, 2009
Non-profit copyright licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), US, has announced that application vendors QUOSA and TDNet have integrated CCC's rights advisory and management tool, Rightsphere, directly into their knowledge management applications. By integrating Rightsphere, users of these applications can instantly check the rights status… Read More
