Subject: Refereed Research Author Copyright and Library Rights Management (fwd) From: Stevan Harnad <harnad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 18:21:13 +0000 (GMT) |
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 18:14:11 +0000 From: "Hofman, Linda" <Hofman@xxxxxxx> Reply-To: September 1998 American Scientist Forum <SEPTEMBER98-FORUM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: SEPTEMBER98-FORUM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Refereed Research Author Copyright and Library Rights Management Resent-Subject: Refereed Research Author Copyright and Library Rights Management [Moderator's Note: The posting below may be of some interest to researchers who seek open access to maximize the usage and impact of their give-away peer-reviewed research output, but readers should be careful not to conflate these concerns with academic library digital rights management concerns in general, which may also involve non-giveaway, royalty-bearing work, such as books, textbooks, etc. The cause of open-access is not furthered by treating this all as if it were different aspects of the same problem: It is not. SH] The (copy)right degree of sharing Copyright and universities; after years of discussion still a hot item. How can faculty achieve maximum access to scholarly information? How can universities raise awareness and educate their academics? How to process 'rights management' between the main stakeholders: authors, publishers and universities? To answer these questions, the Dutch SURF Foundation is launching a new website 'Copyright Management for Scholarship' (www.surf.nl/copyright). Copyright Management for scholarship is concerned with with copyright in higher education, university policy on copyright, and arrangements between universities, authors and publishers. The 'three-party' perspective makes this website unique of its kind! Furthermore, to achieve maximum access to scholarship, strengthen academic freedom and enhance the quality of academic work, SURF is organising a working conference on 'Copyright and Universities' in December 2002 in Zwolle, the Netherlands. International experts are invited to discuss a set of principles and issues for institutional copyright policies and agreements with publishers. Both the set of core principles and the draft documents form an important part of the newly launched website. Also, the site has links to copyright policies, publishing agreements and good practices subdivided by country. The changed environment in scientific "business" forced universities to rethink their attitude towards their policies on intellectual property rights in general and copyright in particular. Universities realised that only with the co-operation of the other stakeholders could optimal access to scholarly information be achieved. Therefore the Dutch SURF Foundation formed an international Steering Committee with representatives of the different stakeholders to prepare the upcoming December 2002 conference. During this conference SURF and the Steering Committee would like to secure support for the principles from as many participants as possible. They hope that many participants will sign the "Zwolle Principles" either in their individual capacities or as representatives of their companies and organisations and that the result will be appropriate management of copyright-protected works created at universities throughout the world. SURF SURF is the information and communications technology (ICT) collaboration organisation for higher education and research in the Netherlands. The universities and hogescholen (universities of professional education) collaborate in SURF regarding ICT developments in the areas of ICT and Research, Education and Organisation, and regarding the network infrastructure of SURFnet and the software licences of SURFdiensten. For further information please contact: SURF Foundation Mrs C.G.E. van Hattem, Communications Manager Leidseveer 35 Postbus 2290 3500 GG Utrecht The Netherlands T +31 (0)30 234 66 00 F +31 (0)30 233 29 60 W www.surf.nl E vanhattem@xxxxxxx
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