Category: Legal
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Triangulation 1: Google Print
One of my favourite podcasts is Leo Laporte’s This Week in Tech (TWiT). Very high production values and good, current topics. Leo and John C. Dvorak (not my favourite) have started a new podcast called Triangulation, in which they have three experts (presumably they will always be two of the three?) discuss a given topic. …
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A Risky Gamble with Google
Siva Vaidhyanathan, friend to librarians, has a lengthy piece in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education called A Risky Gamble with Google (the link goes to his blog where the full text of the article is reproduced). The piece is mostly a discussion about the copyright implications of the Google Book Search project (this post describes…
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In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law
Cool! A current copyright law title that’s fully available online with a creative commons license – that’s putting your money where your mouth is! Sorry for the majority of you, this is Canadian copyright law, but here’s the summary: Link: In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law. From Grokster to Google, copyright…
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New Journal on Copyright
As announced in InfoBits: COPYRIGHT is a new open-access, peer-reviewed journal that will publish papers on "all aspects of copyright in the Internet age." Topics covered will include: digital rights management, scholarly communication and open access, collaborative authorship, blogs and other new media, and the social implications of copyright. For more information and for paper-submission…
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Copyright panelists needed
Julie Garrison writes to the OFFCAMP list: For the upcoming 12th Off-Campus Library Services Conferences in Savannah GA in April, we are hoping to put together a panel discussion on "Copyright issues in Distance Education and Current Library Practices". We are looking for potential panel members who are doing anything they feel is particularly unique…
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Google Scholar Terms of Service
The Digital Librarian weblog was down for quite a while – I was waiting for it to come back up before linking to this interesting tidbit. The blog came back earlier this month but I missed it – here’s the new RSS 2.0 feed. Google Scholar Terms of Service So, I started reading Google Scholar’s…
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Opinions on Google and Libraries Sought
If you were at the last OCLS Conference in Carefree you’ll remember Siva was our keynote speaker…Opinions on Google and Libraries Sought Lots of you have strong opinions on Google Print, Google Scholar and Google’s deals with the G5–those libraries participating in the Google digitization of some/all of their materials. Well, here’s your chance to…
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Call for contributors #2 – J. of Lib & Info Services in Distance Learning
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It’s that time again – what may become my quarterly call to see if any gentle readers would like to contribute to the eServices in Libraries column for the Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning. I have several ideas for topics, but am also interested in you bringing your own ideas to…
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Legal Battle Brews Over Texts on Electronic Reserve at U. of California Libraries
Took me a couple of days to scare up a copy of this article (don’t worry if you don’t have a copy either, the interesting reading will come later when something actually happens as a result of this head-butting). There was a quote in there though that raised my eyebrows. Allan Adler, VP for legal…
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Sirsi Corporation and Copyright Clearance Center Partner
Another copyright post. Direct linking to Copyright Clearance Center’s online permission services from Sirsi Resolver, an OpenURL resolution system, enables librarians and staff to secure copyright permission for ILL, reserves, document delivery, and other uses. Sirsi Resolver provides access to a variety of electronic resources; the integration enables librarians and staff accessing that electronic content…