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- From: Pete Strickland <ps@iucr.org>
- Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 08:48:32 +0100
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---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: German funding of OA project Date: Monday 04 October 2004 2:12 pm From: Barry Mahon <barry.mahon@IOL.IE> To: ICSTI-L@DTIC.MIL ------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Michael Fraser" <mike.fraser@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: eSciDoc Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 11:34:24 +0100 German government funds OA initiative FIZ Karlsruhe and Max Planck Society get £4.2m to develop a collaborative scientific research and funding platform By Bobby Pickering [01-10-2004] The German government has awarded Euro 6.1m (£4.2m) to STM publisher FIZ Karlsruhe and the Max Planck Society (MPS) to develop a platform for web-based collaborative scientific work and self-publishing. [...] http://www.iwr.co.uk/IWR/1158510 ------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Fwd: Open access questionnaire: Call for respondents Date: Monday 04 October 2004 2:12 pm From: Barry Mahon <barry.mahon@IOL.IE> To: ICSTI-L@DTIC.MIL Hi, If you are interested in replying..... Bye, Barry ------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Alma Swan" <a.swan@talk21.com> To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Open access questionnaire: Call for respondents Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 16:56:10 +0100 Dear Colleague, Open access to scholarly journal articles is a topic of growing importance. Open access enables free and immediate electronic access to a scholar's work. Studies show that open access increases the impact of - and number of citations to - work made accessible in this way. We are interested in understanding scholars' views on open access publishing and self-archiving and would very much like to hear your opinions. Please would you help by completing the questionnaire at http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/OA/sarchiv.htm. It will be used to inform universities, research funders and scholars themselves of the state of play and how open access is progressing. Naturally, all responses will be treated as confidential and you may opt to remain anonymous if you wish. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. We do value your input and advice. Yours sincerely, Alma Swan, PhD Key Perspectives Ltd Truro United Kingdom ---------------------------------------------------- This message has been processed by Firetrust Benign. ------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Apple to test music licensing 'rules'... Date: Monday 04 October 2004 2:12 pm From: Barry Mahon <barry.mahon@IOL.IE> To: ICSTI-L@DTIC.MIL Hi, This item is interesting because it shows that the music industry appears to be tougher on the IPR considerations than the text publishing world.... Apple yesterday confirmed that it will open the promised pan-European version of its iTunes Music Store in October 2004. Speaking at the Popkomm show in Germany, Apple's online and apps chief, Eddie Cue, said: "We are well on pace to launch more EU stores. We will do it next month." In June, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the pan-European store, to cater for buyers in countries other than the UK, France and Germany. Versions of ITMS for those three territories were opened that same month. But the new store - which, according to Cue, "will cover a good portion of Western Europe" - may prove troublesome for the company. In the UK, Apple has already come under criticism from the Consumers Association because the UK ITMS prices are higher than their German and French equivalents. Apple claims, not unreasonably, that the price differential arises from the different licensing regimes in each territory - in itself already the subject of a European Commission enquiry. That's certainly true - it's one of the reasons why CDs are priced differently in different European nations and the US, for example. However, Apple's refusal to allow, say, UK buyers to acquire songs from the French store, may run contrary to European Union single-market regulations. The fact that it's going to open a 'borderless' version of ITMS for multiple Euro states shows that if it can submerge the different licensing regimes for these countries, it ought to be able to do so for others. Yes, there's the argument about providing locally oriented content in the correct language. But if the French and German sites are about that, why do big music markets like Italy and the Netherlands not get their own sites? There are clear logistical and practical reasons why they don't, from the cost to Apple of setting up and staffing individual ITMS storefronts, through local labels' keenness (or lack of it) on licensing localised content, to the relative willingness and ability of those nations' online music buyers to work in English. But there's no doubt that such a 'generic' store weakens the arguments for imposing the company's 'one country, one store' rule elsewhere. Bye, Barry ------------------------------------------------------- -- 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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