PSP . . . Links, No. 75 - November 30, 2011

3. Other Programs of Interest

APE 2012: Semantic Web, Date & Publishing
Academic Publishing in Europe
January 24th — 25th
Berlin, Germany
http://www.ape2012.eu/

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5. Suggested Reading
(Please note: some links may require passwords)

Web Sites of Interest

Information handling in collaborative research: an exploration of five case studies
This study, commissioned by RIN and the British Library, comprising of a set of case studies looking at how researchers access, use and disseminate information in collaborations between higher education and business, public and third sector partners.
http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/using-and-accessing-information-resources/collaborative-research-case-studies

A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age
The Library of Congress issues its initial plan for its Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative for dissemination, sharing and feedback
http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/news/framework-103111.html

Do Libraries Still Need Book Vendors and Subscription Agents?
This is the newest addition to the ALCTS white paper series: Creating the Future of Technical Services.
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/resources/z687/vend.cfm

Articles of Interest

Copyright & Intellectual Property

UK Gets Ball Rolling On Digital Copyright Exchange
PaidContent — 11/28/11
UK business secretary Vince Cable has appointed former Ofcom deputy chairman Richard Hooper to lead a feasibility study on establishing a Digital Copyright Exchange.

E-Books

Kindle Catches Fire
Wall Street Journal— 11/29/11
After more than a year of missteps by Apple Inc.'s tablet rivals, at least one viable competitor appears to have surfaced for the popular iPad.

Penguin suspends library e-books, citing security
BusinessWeek (AP) — 11/21/11
One of the country's largest publishers, Penguin Group (USA), has suspended making e-editions of new books available to libraries and won't allow libraries to loan any e-books for Amazon.com's Kindle.

Penguin Suspends E-Book Availability to Libraries
New York Times (blog) — 11/22/11
Another major publisher has pushed back against making its e-books available to library users. Penguin Book Group said it would “delay the availability” of new e-books to libraries because of security concerns.

Higher Education

Job-Placement Problems Could Cost Some Career Education Colleges Their Accreditation
The Chronicle of Higher Education — 11/21/11
The largest of the national accreditors is threatening to withdraw its approval of 49 health and art-and-design colleges owned by the Career Education Corporation, less than a month after the company reported problems with the colleges' job-placement rates.

Libraries

DPLA Chair Palfrey Moving to Andover
Library Journal — 11/14/11
Palfrey, a 2011 LJ Mover & Shaker, is a faculty codirector of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and is also chair of the steering committee for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), which began as a Berkman Center project.

Open Access & Institutional Repositories

Secrecy in science — an argument for open access
Index On Censorship — 11/29/11
Some peer-reviewed journals have tough rules requiring access to that data underpinning research papers, but others do not, including some academic institutions. But there is a growing move to more openness that should surely be welcomed.

How should funding agencies pay open-access fees?
The Occasional Pamphlet (Harvard Law)— 11/16/11
OA journals are currently at a significant disadvantage with respect to subscription journals, because universities and funding agencies subsidize the costs of subscription journals in such a way that authors do not need to trade off money used for the subsidy against money used for other purchases.

University of Arizona becomes first US Open Repository institutional customer
Library Technology — 11/9/11
The University of Arizona has become the first academic institute in the United States to adopt Open Repository — the service from open access publisher BioMed Central, which builds, hosts and maintains uniquely customized DSpace repositories on behalf of organizations.

Piracy

Rogue websites a real threat
The Hill — 11/29/11
By Rep. Lamar Smith--Two recent reports by The Hill draw misleading conclusions about the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill to help stop the flow of revenue to websites that steal and sell America’s intellectual property and keep the profits for themselves.

Both parties for freedom
The Hill — 11/29/11
The advent of the Internet has unleashed a sea change upon Hollywood and the music industry. From Napster to YouTube to Torrent, new technologies that empower the free flow of information have also enabled copyright piracy.

Hollywood and the Internet: Time for the Sequel
Huffington Post — 11/28/11
The Internet has created huge numbers of businesses: Amazon, eBay, Google, Skype to name but a few. These businesses disrupted -- and even displaced -- old businesses: local bookstores, classified ads, newspaper and magazine advertising, long-distance calling — but you didn't see the bookstores, the print industry or even the long-distance telephone companies going to Congress for relief and a ban on the Internet.

Going After the Pirates
New York Times— 11/27/11
Online piracy is the bane of the Internet. Still, bills proposed in the House and the Senate have overreached. The legislation needs to be tightened to protect intellectual property without hindering online speech and innovation.

Congress Is Messing With the Internet Again
The Philly Post — 11/28/11
While lots of us spent the last few desperate hours of our Thanksgiving weekend gawking at the awkward end/not end of the Occupy Philly encampment, a menace more immediate than institutionalized corporate/financial/governmental malfeasance/inequity/skullduggery lurks barely noticed.

Senator Vows to Topple Anti-Piracy Bill with StopCensorship.org
PC World — 11/29/11
Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, is calling on the public to help fight two Internet censorship bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). Wyden is also threatening to filibuster the legislation if it comes up for a vote.

Horror Show: Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley
Wall Street Journal — 11/28/11
Washington regulating the Internet is akin to a gorilla playing a Stradivarius. Yet many legislators are being urged to play by lobbyists for Hollywood, perhaps the most technology-intolerant industry.

The Revolt Against Congress’s New Internet Piracy Proposal
Forbes— 11/28/11
When Congress introduced the Stop Online Piracy Act on October 26th, its sponsors hardly expected a tidal wave of opposition from Silicon Valley. After all, SOPA was billed as a corrected version of the Senate’s Protect IP Act, passed out of committee earlier this year.

Death of Copyright Is Greatly Exaggerated
Forbes — 11/27/11
But, in fact, there have always been many ways to monetize copyrighted works, and many of them don't involve selling copies to consumers. For example, despite the rise of file sharing, Hollywood has continued making money hand over fist at the box office.

Piracy vs. an open Internet
LA Times — 11/25/11
To avoid the reach of U.S. copyright laws, numerous online pirates have set up shop in countries less willing or able to enforce intellectual property rights.

Internet Anti-Piracy Bill Would Chill Free Expression
The Daily Beast — 11/23/11
Copyright owners have struggled to find an effective mechanism to fight the wide-scale online piracy of their intellectual property. Understandably, Congress wants to help.

SOPA opposition goes viral
Washington Post — 11/22/11
As Web firms recently pressed Congress to free them from liability for pirated content on their sites, they turned to a natural lobbying technique: starting a viral campaign.

Wide Backlash Greets Internet Antipiracy Bill
American Libraries— 11/22/11
Groups from both ends of the political spectrum—and everything in between—have come out against a congressional bill that would require internet service providers to police users’ online activities for potential copyright infringement and would empower the U.S. attorney general to order the removal from the domain name system of any website that “engages in, enables or facilitates” infringement.

Business Software Alliance withdraws support for Stop Online Piracy Act
Computerworld— 11/22/11
The U.S. Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which would allow U.S. authorities to seize the domain names of copyright-infringing websites, has taken another blow as a leading proponent has withdrawn its support.

Major software group backs off support for controversial online piracy bill
The Hill — 11/21/11
A prominent software industry group backed by Apple and Microsoft, among others, appears to be to backpedaling from its support of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

How the Internet Evolves to Overcome Censorship
TIME — 11/21/11
Last week’s congressional hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, drew attention to the fact that Congress has it within its power to censor the Internet. Dozens of sites across the web blacked-out their logos in opposition to the bill.

Controversial Copyright Bill Goes Before Congress
PW— 11/18/11
The Association of American Publishers has thrown its weight behind a bill that critics say would dramatically scale back the “safe harbor” provision of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act. On November 16, Congress heard testimony on SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act), a bill that broadly targets foreign-based “rogue” Internet sites by going after companies that allegedly “engage in, enable, or facilitate” infringement.

Dangerous Bill Would Threaten Legitimate Websites
The Atlantic— 11/17/11
Congress is considering sweeping Internet legislation that purports to target "rogue websites" with the intent of cracking down on the theft of everything from movies to songs to designer handbags. While the goal is laudable, too many innocent websites would wind up in the crosshairs.

SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) debate: Why are Google and Facebook against it?
Washington Post — 11/17/11
Big names from Silicon Valley went head-to-head with media giants at a House hearing Wednesday on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which would punish companies for posting pirated content online.

U.S. piracy fight spills into Canada
Montreal Gazette— 11/15/11
The U.S. Congress is embroiled in a heated de-bate over the Stop On-line Piracy Act (SOPA), pro-posed legislation that sup-porters argue is needed to combat online infringement, but critics fear would create the "great firewall of the United States."

Professional & Scholarly Publishing

What Is Publishing? A Report from THATCamp Publishing
Chronicle of Higher Ed — 11/28/11
The entry of many research libraries into the publishing industry has muddied the definition of what exactly a publisher is. These include M-Publishing by the University of Michigan library and the Scholarly Resources Integration department of the Ohio State University library.

Realistic Approaches to the US Federal Public Access RFIs
Scholarly Kitchen — 11/22/11
The two Requests for Information recently put forth by the federal government require a realistic set of responses, and hint at some changes in attitudes and approaches.

Returns on R&D tumble at world's top drugmakers
Reuters — 11/21/11
Investment returns from researching new drugs have fallen nearly 30 percent in the past year at the world's 12 top pharmaceutical companies, highlighting the productivity dilemma facing the sector.

First EU chief scientific adviser named. After a two-year delay, appointment goes to Scotland's CSA.
Nature — 11/21/11
Europe’s first chief scientific adviser (CSA) is to be Anne Glover, a molecular and cell biologist and presently Scotland’s CSA.

The World Turned Upside Down—Peer to Peer Review
Library Journal — 11/17/11
Academic journal publishers are likewise reading the writing on the wall. They are launching open access journals and are increasingly offering opportunities for scientists and scholars to ransom the freedom of their writings in toll access journals-for a fee, of course. SAGE now offers such a service for a mere $3000, for which the publisher will deposit the article into repositories of funders who require deposit, and anyone who stumbles across the article in SAGE's vast database will be able to read it without having to purchase it.

Republicans Cut Top Science Office by 1/3
Huffington Post — 11/17/11
Scientists are regarding it as yet another attack on science by a political party that has, in the words of GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, become "the anti-science party." The budget for the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy has been cut by 32%.

Stop the Great Firewall of America
New York Times — 11/16/11
China operates the world’s most elaborate and opaque system of Internet censorship. But Congress, under pressure to take action against the theft of intellectual property, is considering misguided legislation that would strengthen China’s Great Firewall and even bring major features of it to America.

General Interest

In Praise of Book Critics
Wall Street Journal— 11/28/11
People who earn a salary reading and critiquing books have one of the sweetest jobs on earth, except that it's harder than it looks. Critics read heaps of bad books, only some of which they review.

SOPA explained in cartoon form
IT World — 1/28/11
Have you been following the SOPA soap opera? Yeah, me neither. But thanks to our friends at New Media Animation, I can now provide an overview of the issue through the use of humorous computer-generated animations.

How Will We Read: In Public Libraries?
Huffington Post— 11/21/11
Google Books has been a topic of conversation since it started. Now the intellectual copyright issues are in the courts for resolution. There are other digitization projects that are also underway. Some only digitize books that are in public domain, so they don't have the kinds of issues Google Books does. There is an effort that is being initiated at Harvard at the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society called the Digital Public Library of America.

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