Australian professor charged in US enquiry on ghostwriting for medical journal - December 29, 2008
Dr. John Eden, an associate professor at the University of NSW and the director of the Sydney Menopause Centre, has reportedly been caught up in a US Senate enquiry. The enquiry is probing whether big pharmaceutical firms are paying ghostwriters to write journal articles favourable to their products. Dr. Eden… Read More
Elsevier to investigate charges of ghostwriting by pharma firm for medical journal - December 24, 2008
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has reportedly announced plans to investigate US senator Chuck Grassley's allegations against one of its journals. According to Grassley, Elsevier's American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology had carried an article ghostwritten by pharmaceuticals firm Wyeth to promote its hormone replacement therapy (HRT),… Read More
Leading STM publishers win copyright infringement suit against international digital pirates - November 28, 2008
STM publishers Elsevier, Netherlands, and Thieme Publishers, part of Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, have announced that they have secured a significant victory against an international piracy scheme involving illegal copying, sale, and distribution of their scientific journals. In September 2007, the publishers… Read More
ARL bimonthly report examines balance between IP laws and knowledge access - November 25, 2008
Intellectual property (IP) and copyright, as well as access to special collections, are highlighted in the current issue of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Bimonthly Report, no. 260. In the lead article, President of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, Peter… Read More
Copyright Clearance Center’ new web-based service to license content for commercial use - November 24, 2008
Non-profit copyright licensing solution provider Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), US, has announced the beta launch of a web-based service, Ozmo (www.ozmo.com). The new service makes it easy for independent content creators to license the use of their work for commercial purposes and… Read More
College publishers awarded favourable ruling in copyright infringement suit - November 20, 2008
Publishers John Wiley & Sons, Inc., McGraw-Hill Education, Pearson Education, Inc. and Cengage Learning, Inc. have announced a favorable ruling and damages award in a copyright infringement case against two… Read More
Google in pact with authors, publishers for Book Search project - November 3, 2008
The Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), and Internet search services provider Google recently announced a settlement agreement on behalf of a broad class of authors and publishers worldwide. The agreement is projected to expand online access to millions of… Read More
Cambridge University Press selects CCC’s online solution to deliver copyright permissions online - October 16, 2008
Cambridge Journals, a division of Cambridge University Press, US, has selected Copyright Clearance Center's online content licensing service, Rightslink, to provide its readers a fast and easy way to obtain copyright permissions to share and distribute published materials directly from content pages online. Rightslink will help… Read More
iCopyright launches plagiarism detection tool for online publishers - September 22, 2008
iCopyright, a US-based provider of intelligent copyright systems for digital content, has announced the release of Discovery, a web-based service that finds both licensed and unlicensed uses of a publisher's content on the web. Publishers can use Discovery as a business development tool, a licence verification… Read More
Publishers commend new legislation to safeguard copyright in research works - September 15, 2008
The Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers (PSP) has welcomed the introduction of legislation to protect the rights of authors and publishers of copyrighted, peer-reviewed scientific journal articles. At a recently held hearing on H.R. 6845, the Fair Copyright in Research… Read More
