Copyright in the networked world

Purpose – Libraries and scholars face more frequent problems with and decisions about plagiarism than in the past. This article aims to look at complex cases where plagiarism may have occurred. Design/methodology/approach – The method is anthropological and looks at specific cases, in which the situations are real but the actors have been fictionalised to protect identities. Findings – Plagiarism tools, while invaluable for discovering potential problems, can also expose cases where judgments depend on complex circumstances.Peer Reviewe

Bibliotheksutopien und -dystopien heute und 2040

Open access is a key utopian ideal for a large proportion of librarians, but before discussing libraries in 2040, it is important to define the term “library”. For some readers, a complete shift to electronic reading would be a utopia, especially for those with dyslexia and other reading disabilities since electronic reading offers means for compensating. For those whose utopia is the library building itself as a long-term repository for bound paper volumes, the future offers little hope. The prevalence of book banning attempts and of fake news of all sorts is a symptom of a fundamental distrust in information that is the hallmark of the librarian’s dystopia.Open Access ist für einen großen Teil der Bibliothekare ein wichtiges utopisches Ideal, aber bevor wir über Bibliotheken im Jahr 2040 sprechen, ist es wichtig, den Begriff „Bibliothek“ zu definieren. Für einige Leser wäre eine vollständige Umstellung auf elektronisches Lesen eine Utopie, insbesondere für Menschen mit Legasthenie und anderen Lesebehinderungen, da das elektronische Lesen Mittel zum Ausgleich bietet. Für diejenigen, deren Utopie das Bibliotheksgebäude selbst als Langzeitdepot für gebundene Papierbände ist, bietet die Zukunft wenig Hoffnung. Das Vorherrschen von Buchverbotsversuchen und gefälschten Nachrichten aller Art ist ein Symptom für ein grundlegendes Misstrauen gegenüber Informationen, das ein Markenzeichen der Bibliothekardystopie ist.Peer Reviewe

Copyright in the networked world

Purpose – This column looks at which rights matter, how to retain them, and which journal publishers already cooperate. Design/methodology/approach – It uses the requirements of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access, and examines the Creative Commons licences, the SPARC addendum, the project RoMEO list publishers' copyright policies, and the Emerald Journal Article Record form. Findings – If retaining rights to works in order to provide open access is a key part of the solution to the crisis in scholarly publishing, then significant progress has taken place. Practical implications – It remains to be seen whether having authors retain the right to provide open access will, over time, bring down journal costs. Enough publishers have cooperated that an opportunity now exists for repositories to begin to show what they can (or cannot) accomplish. Originality/value – It remains to be seen whether having authors retain the right to provide open access will, over time, bring down journal costs.Peer Reviewe

International print and digital repositories initiatives in the United States: CRL, Portico, LOCKSS, Internet Archive : 6th scientific symposium Frankfurt - 6. wissenschaftliches Symposium Frankfurt ; October 5 - 7, 2006

This panel will explore the broad horizon of print and digital repository efforts underway in the United States

The Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis conference

The Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis conference pursued three themes: access, preservation, and intellectual property. The 100 invited participants were mainly middle-aged, established, upper-echelon professionals. What is interesting is how much agreement there was on issues like digital preservation and the use of encoded archival description. Participants saw the US copyright law as a barrier which neither upheld the rights of people of non-European origin, nor facilitated the free movement of information.Peer Reviewe

Examining Research Integrity

Research integrity issues fill the academic news, and include plagiarism, data falsification and image manipulation. Integrity violations are complex because of the gray zones between where bad practice ends and genuine malpractice begin. No real consensus exists about the boundaries, even though many people have strong opinions. The goal of this panel is to engage in a scholarly discussion about integrity issues using specific examples drawn from the book “Quantifying Research Integrity” (Seadle, 2017)

Why a copyright column?

Copyright is integral to everything we do in digital publishing. This new column will examine a wide range of intellectual property issues using concrete examples from current projects. Since Internet-based publishing is automatically international, the column will look at the British, European and other aspects, as well as US law. This first column deals with the question of whether a set of 1960s era Black Panther Party pamphlets are in the public domain under US copyright law. It also mentions the moral rights issues that would arise in a German context. The final section of the column reviews some of the information sources useful in answering questions of this sort.Peer Reviewe

A friendly conquest: German libraries after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989

This paper provides an overview of the development of libraries in the geographical area of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) after it joined the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) in 1990. It briefly describes the situation of libraries in the GDR and the major changes that accompanied the unification process. It also touches on a series of three nationwide studies on reading and library-user behavior, and on library legislation and major national-planning initiatives since 1989. For academic libraries, the unification process was mainly favorable, as a structured plan and continuous funding were introduced as part of higher education development. For public libraries, the process was less structured, severely reducing a previously very dense system within a very short time. Recent library statistics indicate, however, that the integration of the two library systems has benefited the remaining libraries and left no clearly visible difference between library systems in the eastern and western parts of Germany.published or submitted for publicatio