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- From: Pete Strickland <ps@iucr.org>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 15:02:48 +0000
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**************************************************** Subject: The many copy problem with OA One of the issues that arises with the advent of OA is the many copy problem. If an article is made open access then, ipso facto, it can legally be copied to other places. This gives rise to the risk that any modifications to the original article may be 'lost' in the process and a reader may be unaware that the version they have is not the most recent. In addition, for Abstracting & Indexing services there is a problem of a)identifying the item and b) being sure it is the definitive version. This particular issue will be part of the subject of the ICSTI Technical Meeting which will be held in London on 17 May 2004 in association with our General Meeting. Details at: http://www.icsti.org/ICSTI_Public_Conf.doc Peter Suber the author of the well know OA Blog has written an article on the many copy problem in which he reviews the issues and suggests some solutions. You can find it here:http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/archive/?page=features&issue=14 NB: comment on the above from Gérard Giroud: Maybe a contribution from the "Patent world", which is by the way an "open access" world. The many copies question was never a problem. It is always possible to ask a copy to the initial publisher. **************************************************** Subject: Survey of OA by JISC At this address: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/JISCOAreport1.pdf There are the results of a survey undertaken on behalf of the UK funding body JISC and the Open Society Initiative, into Open Access. **************************************************** Subject: Washington DC Principles for Free Access To Science NFAIS Members may not have yet heard of the briefing and panel held this morning at the National Press Club in Washington DC. From the press release dated today: "Representatives from the nation's leading not-for-profit medical/scientific societies and publishers have announced their commitment to providing free access and wide dissemination of published research findings. Their commitment was conveyed today by the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Cancer Society, the American Diabetes Association and others, during a news conference in Washington at which they released Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science-a statement representing 48 not-for-profit publishers, over 600,000 scientists and clinicians, and more than 380 journals." The full statement of principles may be accessed by clicking through to: http://www.dcprinciples.org/statement.htm A full list of signatories with contact names may be found at: http://www.dcprinciples.org/signatorieslist.htm The press release is available at: http://www.dcprinciples.org/release.htm NB: comment on the above from Walt Warnick: This is a very interesting development. Notice that these publishers are heavily focused on the life sciences. In contrast, the physical sciences are little represented. Among the remaining major questions are: will for-profit publishers in the life-sciences follow the model now established by not-for-profit publishers in the life sciences, and will publishers in the physical sciences follow the lead of publishers in the life sciences? **************************************************** Subject: Taylor & Francis & Informa Group Merge; to be called T&F Informa The British academic and scientific journals publisher Taylor & Francis has announced plans to merge with British trade publisher Informa Group, which offers a range of subscription-based products in fields ranging from law to biomedical and pharmaceutical information. The companies say the merger will create a new international force in the provision of specialist information through the combined publishing and events businesses. The merged company will be called T&F Informa. T&F recently acquired Marcel Dekker, and prior to that Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers, CRC Press, and Frank Cass. **************************************************** Subject: Elsevier readies Scopus for Autumn release After two years of planning, development, and initial testing by a select group of about 20 university libraries, Elsevier has finally made an official announcement of the first fully functioning version of Scopus, its highly anticipated, full-text linking, abstracting and indexing database. The company is now providing access to another 30 academic libraries for final testing and user trials, will add more libraries over the next 6 months, and expects to have the commercial release available by Q4 2004. Scopus is designed to be an all science, comprehensive access point for a library, with coverage of 13,000 titles from over 4,000 STM publishers, plus coverage of over 100 open access journals by the summer. Scopus also simultaneously searches the scientific Web using Elsevier's science-only Internet search engine, Scirus. The company aimed to make the Scopus service easy to use as Google, with fewer clicks to the full text than any service available. More details at: http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb040315-1.shtml **************************************************** Subject: New EU IPR Directive approved by the European Parliament At this URL: http://www.euractiv.com/cgi-bin/cgint.exe/341149-993?204&OIDN=1507336 You will find a report on the EU Directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR. The IPR directive is aimed primarily at cracking down on piracy and counterfeiting by imposing criminal sanctions to infringers operating on a large-scale and for commercial purposes only. But opponents claim it has been amended in a way that gives rights holders (mostly coming from the music and film industries) disproportionate powers, allowing individuals to be sued for exchanging files online on the same grounds as large-scale infringers. The criminal sanctions aspects were watered down by the Parliament - allowing individual Member States to implement their own sanctions. However, Commissioner Bolkestein of the EU declared after the vote that the Commission would propose EU measures on criminal sanctions for IP rights violations "in due course". The coalition of European creative industries welcomed the vote as "a first step in the fight against piracy and counterfeiting". It regretted however, that the directive does not harmonise criminal penalties and said creative industries will continue to press for criminal sanctions at EU level. The coalition called on the institutions to address the issue urgently. Commenting on the vote, Jim Murray, the director of the EU consumers organisation (BEUC) said he was deeply disappointed. He claims the current text breaks away from the Commission's initial proposal by extending the scope of the directive to private copying, thereby giving industry "a weapon to intimidate customers in their own home". The most interesting aspect is the dilution of the sanctions. The Directive was the first (in my experience) to try to require the Member States to implement the same sanctions for breaches. The Commission's intention to introduce proposals on sanctions again shows they are still anxious to get this principle introduced. The Directive as amended now goes to the Council of Ministers of the EU where the expectation (by the European Commission) is that it will be finally approved in April. Member States will have two years to implement it. **************************************************** -- Best wishes Peter Strickland Managing Editor IUCr Journals ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IUCr Editorial Office, 5 Abbey Square, Chester CH1 2HU, England Phone: 44 1244 342878 Fax: 44 1244 314888 Email: ps@iucr.org Ftp: ftp.iucr.org WWW: http://journals.iucr.org/ NEWSFLASH: Complete text of all IUCr journals back to 1948 now online! Visit Crystallography Journals Online for more details _______________________________________________ Epc mailing list Epc@iucr.org http://scripts.iucr.org/mailman/listinfo/epc
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