Understanding the Rights Provisions of a Book Contract

A book contract establishes a partnership between a publisher and an author. The author offers their scholarly expertise and selected rights to the work while the publisher offers capital and expertise in copyediting, design, marketing, and rights management. In essence, the partnership is grounded in the exercise of specified rights. This presentation covers the provisions of book publishing contracts related to US copyright law: Copyright ownership Copyright as a package of rights Open access and open licenses Contract terminatio

Understanding the Rights Provisions of a Book Contract

A book contract establishes a partnership between a publisher and an author. The author offers their scholarly expertise and selected rights to the work while the publisher offers capital and expertise in copyediting, design, marketing, and rights management. In essence, the partnership is grounded in the exercise of specified rights. This presentation covers the provisions of book publishing contracts related to US copyright law: Copyright ownership Copyright as a package of rights Open access and open licenses Contract terminatio

The Handy IR Manager: A Toolkit for Recruitment, Intake, and Promotion

You seek fresh strategies for recruiting new collections for your institutional repository (IR). You strive to improve intake workflows and expedite metadata creation for hosted collections. You wonder how to attract users to repository content. If you see yourself in any – or all – of these scenarios, come to this session for inspiration and practical tools. The Scholarly Communications team will present successful strategies that we’ve developed at the University of Arkansas for recruitment, intake, and promotion, using examples from our work with research centers and student journals

African roots : prehistory to 1440

Forma parte de una serie que estudia la historia del hombre negro y de sus logros en la historia mundial. Este texto estudia la variedad de tierras y paisajes de África; las primeras sociedades de cazadores que se constituyeron allí, unos diez mil años antes de Cristo; el Nilo y la civilización egipcia, el surgimiento de la primera ciudad africana, Hierakonpolis, alrededor del 3500 antes de Cristo; y otros reinos posteriores en Egipto. También, se describen las culturas de las ciudades comerciales del este de África conectadas con Oriente Medio y Asia; el reino de Ghana, en África occidental, en la ruta comercial entre el desierto del Sahara y el Mediterráneo; el reino de Malí y más al sur, la cultura de la ciudad del Gran Zimbawe.SCBiblioteca de Educación del Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte; Calle San Agustín, 5 - 3 planta; 28014 Madrid; Tel. +34917748000; [email protected]

Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik the New York Eskimo, by Kenn Harper, Steerforth Press, South Royalton, VT, 2000

When Arctic explorer Robert Peary came home in September 1897, he brought with him a thirty-ton meteorite, an ethnological collection, and a group of Polar Eskimos for the American Museum of Natural History, which were immediately put on display. No matter that four of the six Eskimos died: the Museum just removed them from temporary exhibits and catalogued in them permanent collections. Of the two surviving, one returned to Greenland the following summer, the other remained in the household of a Museum administrator, William Wallace. This little orphan named Minik became the "New York Eskimo" of the title, and the phrase aptly summarizes his oxymoronic life

The slave trade : 1440 to 1770

Forma parte de una serie que estudia la historia del hombre negro y de sus logros en el contexto histórico mundial. Este texto explica el estado de las culturas africanas hacia 1400 cuando llegan comerciantes europeos al oeste del continente; el comienzo del mercado de esclavos desde África hasta América; la colonización británica; la empresa internacional del comercio de esclavos desde 1600 hasta 1800; los movimientos de protesta y resistencia y la construcción de nuevas vidas en América.SCBiblioteca de Educación del Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte; Calle San Agustín, 5 - 3 planta; 28014 Madrid; Tel. +34917748000; [email protected]

Partnering with Research Centers: Outreach, Hosting Services and Promotion

Are you seeking new content for your repository? Are you eager to forge partnerships across campus? Come to this session for inspiration and practical tips for working with research centers. The University of Arkansas repository team will discuss successful strategies for - Outreach – recruitment, collaborating with fellow librarians, initiating contact - Hosting services – multi-format platform, discoverability through metadata, uploads, usage statistics - Promotion – social media, celebrating mutual achievements Note: This video presentation is platform agnostic