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August news from ICSTI
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- From: Howard Flack <Howard.Flack@cryst.unige.ch>
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 15:42:17 +0100 (BST)
Dear Members Please find attached further news from Executive Director, Barry Mahon. Kind regards Sarah Byrne, Administrator ICSTI 51, boulevard de Montmorency 75016 Paris, FRANCE Tel: 33 1 45 25 65 92 Fax: 33 1 42 15 12 62 ******************************************** News for ICSTI Members August 26th 2001 1. The dialogue gets dirty….. On the following URL: http://www.englib.cornell.edu/displays/stickershock/ You will find the following: "Believe it or not, you could own this brand new Toyota Corolla, complete with air conditioning and a three-year warranty, for the same price as the library's yearly subscription to the Journal of Applied Polymer Science" According to the site the sub for the Journal is $12,495.00 Is this a measure of frustration or just a rant? 2. …..and another alternative publishing initiative. "Faculty of 1000 is a revolutionary new online research tool that will systematically highlight and review the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the commendations of over 1000 selected leading scientists. [aimed to] provide scientists with a continuously updated insider's guide to the most important papers published in their areas of interest" · Highlights papers on the basis of scientific merit rather than the journal in which they appear. · Offers the researcher a consensus of recommendations from over 1000 leading scientists · Organizes systematically the mass of information within the scientific literature by dividing the life sciences into over 70 sections (within 16 core faculties), with cross-coding and advanced search facilities · Comprising several thousand article recommendations on launch in October 2001, Faculty of 1000 will cover the entire field of biology within 16 Faculties (i.e. key subject areas), each of which will be run by 2-4 internationally renowned scientists. More at: http://www.facultyof1000.com/info/ 3. Another interesting wrinkle After being quelled by the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) organization and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) earlier this year, a research paper on how to crack digital music encryption is due to be presented at the Usenix Security Conference in Washington on August 15. The controversial paper, written by Princeton University Professor Edward Felten and his research team, was previously withdrawn from another conference last April after Felten came under pressure from the SDMI and RIAA. The groups claimed that by presenting the findings, the team would be in violation of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). For the full story: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/08/14/010814hncrack.xml?0814tupm This is interesting, suppression of research publication as a result of a copyright dispute not related to the publication per se, but to the content. In fact the essence of Felten's paper was published in the last issue of Wired magazine. You may have seen another case recently concerning a Russian "hacker" who broke Adobe's PDF encryption code. He was arrested in the US under the copyright act. His case has become a bit of a "cause celèbre" for freedom of speech advocates. -- VISITING GENEVA? See http://www.unige.ch/crystal/ahdf/geneva02.html Howard Flack http://www.unige.ch/crystal/ahdf/Howard.Flack.html Laboratoire de Cristallographie Phone: +41 22 702 62 49 24 quai Ernest-Ansermet mailto:Howard.Flack@cryst.unige.ch CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland Fax: +41 22 702 61 08
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