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Partnering to Publish 2010: Partnering with Researchers to Share New Knowledge Through Digital Technologies
Increasingly the university library's mission is to support scholarly communication in all its forms and to develop a range of scalable and sustainable services in support of research and publishing....
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LCA Releases Issue Brief on Streaming Films for Educational Purposes
This paper considers three provisions of the Copyright Act that could permit streaming of this sort: Sections 107, 110(2), and 110(1). While all three provisions may apply, Section 107 fair...
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Fair Use Challenges in Academic and Research Libraries
This report summarizes research into the current application of fair use to meet the missions of U.S. academic and research libraries. Sixty-five librarians were interviewed confidentially by telephone for around...
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Concerns with April ACTA Text
Addresses concerns with the text of the public release of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). acta-text-comments-23apr10.pdf
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Partnering to Publish 2010: Old and New Synergies: Libraries and Journals
Describes the University of Toronto's Synergies project, which includes adding Canadian journals to Scholars Portal, an OCUL delivery and archiving platform. The presentation discusses how to balance local services with...
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Principles to Guide Vendor/Publisher Relations in Large-Scale Digitization Projects of Special Collections Materials
Principles endorsed by the Association of Research Libraries Board of Directors on July 26, 2010. principles_large_scale_digitization.pdf
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ARL Profiles: Emerging Themes
arl-profiles-rllf-report.pdf
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GSU Fair Use Order
This is a copyright infringement case brought against various officials of the University System of Georgia, including officials of Georgia State University. Plaintiffs are three publishing houses who claim that...
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Partnering to Publish 2010: Recapturing the Essence of the Past: Integrating the University Press into the Library at Utah State University
Describes the Utah State University Libraries' experiment to publish USU faculty authors in all fields and disciplines as Open Access electronic books that will once again place the Press, now...
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LCA Outlines Concerns with the Leaked Internet Chapter of ACTA
Analysis of the U.S. proposal for an Internet chapter in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which was leaked to the press and widely disseminated on the Internet. acta-leak-24mar10.pdf