ARL Infographic Explains Fundamentals and Importance of Fair Use; Texas Tech Libraries joins HathiTrust; CNI Video “Improving Scholarly Workflow with OS” is available; IMLS Announces 30 Finalists for 2015 National Medal for Museum and Library Service Announced; Libraries Are Concerned About the Lack of New e-books in the Kindle Format; ALA Council Accepts 2015 Master’s Program Standards for Accreditation; Brill Selects Copyright Clearance Center to Manage Article Charges for Four New Open Access Publications Processing; Springer partners with CCC to deliver XML content for corporate biomedical text mining; and Science Domain to preserve e-journals with Portico.
ARL Infographic Explains Fundamentals and Importance of Fair Use
“Fair use is an important right that provides balance to the copyright system in the US and supports the Constitutional purpose of copyright to “promote the Progress of Science and the useful Arts.” In conjunction with Fair Use Week 2015, ARL has released a new infographic that explains what fair use is, why it is important, and who uses fair use. The infographic also provides several high-profile examples of fair use.
The Fair Use Fundamentals infographic is freely available as a PDF to embed on blogs and websites and to print and hand out at events. Share the link, embed the PDF on your site, print copies for your next event, and continue to support and work with your campus partners on promoting fair use…”
Texas Tech Libraries joins HathiTrust
KnowledgeSpeak notes that “Texas Tech University Libraries has joined HathiTrust, a partnership of academic and research institutions offering a collection of millions of digitised titles from more than 100 libraries throughout the world. The partnership increases Texas Tech Libraries’ holdings by more than 5 million volumes…”
CNI Video “Improving Scholarly Workflow with OS” is available
In this presentation from CNI’s fall 2014 meeting, Andrew Sallans of the Center for Open Science discusses the Open Science Framework (OSF), a free, open source web application which is designed to improve scholarly workflow and connect it to other tools and services.
IMLS Announces 30 Finalists for 2015 National Medal for Museum and Library Service Announced
InfoDOCKET reports that “the Institute of Museum and Library Services today announced 30 finalists for the National Medal for Museum and Library Service. The National Medal is the nation’s highest honor given to museums and libraries for service to the community…
The National Medal winners will be named later this spring, and representatives from winning institutions will travel to Washington, D.C. to be honored at the National Medal award ceremony…”
Libraries Are Concerned About the Lack of New e-books in the Kindle Format
According to Good e-Reader “libraries all over the US have expressed concern … that the vast majority of new e-book titles from Overdrive are not available in the Kindle format. The few books that have been made available are from small presses and not major publishers… ”
David Burleigh Director of Marketing & Communication for Overdrive responded that “almost all of our e-Books are (or will be) compatible with Kindle. We’re aware of delays in availability for some new titles and are working to resolve them as quickly as possible…”
ALA Council Accepts 2015 Master’s Program Standards for Accreditation
In case you missed it, Information Today reports that “the Council of the American Library Association (ALA) approved the adoption of the 2015 Standards for Accreditation of Master’s Programs in Library and Information Studies. These revised standards emphasize planning, assessment, and evaluation to sustain quality, as well as require demonstration of how the evaluation results are applied. Implementation of these standards begins immediately for programs with comprehensive review visits in spring 2017 and later…”
Brill Selects Copyright Clearance Center to Manage Article Charges for Four New Open Access Publications Processing
Brill has chosen the RightsLink® for Open Access platform from Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organization, to manage Article Processing Charges (APCs) for its recently launched, international Open Access journals: Brill Open Biology; Brill Open Humanities; Brill Open Law; and Brill Open Social Sciences.
Springer partners with CCC to deliver XML content for corporate biomedical text mining
According to KnowledgeSpeak “Springer has partnered with Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) on a new solution enabling corporate life sciences researchers to perform text and data mining (TDM) quickly and easily across publishers. As one of the first publishers to sign onto the service, Springer will offer a significant portion of its full-text article content through the CCC service when launched later this year…”
Science Domain to preserve e-journals with Portico
KnowledgeSpeak also reports that “Portico has announced that Science Domain will be preserving its e-journals with Portico, ensuring that their content will be secure and available into the future. Science Domain is based in West Bengal, India. Science Domain International (SDI) publishes high-quality, OPEN peer reviewed, open access international journals in various sectors of science, technology, and medicine (STM)…”