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Association of American publishers says taxpayers have not paid for journal articles
More reporting on the hearing this week on Public Access to Federally-Funded Research: In his testimony to the House Committee On Oversight and Government Reform, Alan Adler of the association of american publishers, said: Publishers strongly believe that american taxpayers are entitled to the research they've paid for.... But taxpayers have not paid for the private sector, peer-reviewed journal articles reporting on that research. ...Peer-reviewed articles published in scholarly journals are not research, federally-funded or otherwise. They describe and explain the process, findings and significance of research. They re...
Source: Free Government Information (FGI) blogs - August 3, 2010 Author: jajacobs Tags: open access

Now Available: Prepared Testimony (Full Text) From “Public Access to Federally Funded Research” Hearing
From the Subcommittee Web Site: Background On Thursday, July 29, 2010, the Information Policy, Census, and National Archives Subcommittee [part of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform] [held] a hearing entitled, “Public Access to Federally-Funded Research.” The hearing will review the current state of public access to federally-funded research in science, technology and medicine. The hearing will provide an opportunity to assess the issues surrounding public access policies, including the impact of increasing public access on scientists, physicians, and researchers. Prepared Testimony and...
Source: ResourceShelf - July 30, 2010 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Uncategorized

Canadian Authors Launch Petititon Against Google Book Settlement
A group of Canadian authors has launched an online petition to protest the proposed settlement intended to put an end to a class action copyright lawsuit by U.S.-based author and publisher groups over Google’s plans to make and sell digital copies of millions of books. In November 2009, the settlement was amended so that it would now apply only to books registered with the U.S. Copyright office or published in the U.K., Australia, or Canada. The Book Rights Registry board, the entity that will be responsible for paying authors and publishers from revenues earned by the digitization project, would also be required to ...
Source: Slaw - January 6, 2010 Author: Michel-Adrien Sheppard Tags: Books Canada Copyright Law Google International Librarians Online Research Sources open access Publishing

Revised Google Books settlement due Nov. 9
Motoko Rich, Judge Sets Nov. 9 Deadline For Revised Google Book Settlement, New York Times: Media Decoder blog, October 7, 2009. The federal judge who is responsible for reviewing the Google book settlement that would create a vast digital library has set Nov. 9 as the date by which Google and its partners must submit a revised settlement for the court’s preliminary approval. The original agreement, which was reached last October between Google and representatives of the Authors Guild and the association of american publishers, was derailed by numerous objections from authors, academics, librarians, public interest gro...
Source: open access News - October 8, 2009 Author: Gavin Baker

Google Book Search Settlement Deadline
Tomorrow marks the deadline for comments on the proposed settlement between Google and U.S. publisher and author organizations over the search giant's project to digitize millions of books.The settlement is intended to end class action lawsuits that charged Google with copyright infringement for unauthorized mass scanning.Interested parties have been invited to make comments to a New York judge by tomorrow. In early October, that judge will consider whether or not to approve the settlement.In recent days, the number of comments and analyses about the deal has increased dramatically. Here are a few:Google's plan for world'...
Source: Library Boy - September 3, 2009 Author: Michel-Adrien

Lessons from the plagiarism beat
Erica Hendry, Students Reach Settlement in Turnitin Suit, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 3, 2009. Excerpt: A two-year battle over copyright infringement between four students and Turnitin, a commerical plagiarism-detection service, came to an apparent end last Friday in a settlement that prohibits either party from taking further legal action. The high-school students first sued iParadigms, Turnitin's parent company, in 2007 for copyright infringement, saying the company took their papers against their will and then made a profit from them. The students' high schools required them to use the service, w...
Source: open access News - August 4, 2009 Author: Peter Suber

U.S. Publishers Endorse International Joint Statement On Open access Debate
From the Announcement: The Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the association of american publishers (aap/PSP) today expressed its support and endorsement of a joint statement on the open access debate issued by two prestigious international organizations representing publishers and librarians. Designed to bring more light and less heat to the often contentious debate surrounding open access, the statement, entitled “Enhancing the Debate on open access,” was issued on May 20 by the International Publishers Association (IPA) and the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA). They were join...
Source: ResourceShelf - June 11, 2009 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Scholarly Publishing

Aap/PSP Endorses IPA/IFLA “Enhancing the Debate on Open access” Statement
The Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the association of american publishers has endorsed the IPA/IFLA "Enhancing the Debate on open access" statement. Here's an excerpt from the press release: The Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the association of american publishers (aap/PSP) today expressed its support and endorsement of a joint statement on the open access debate issued by two prestigious international organizations representing publishers and librarians. Designed to bring more light and less heat to the often contentious debate surrounding open access, the statement, en...
Source: DigitalKoans - June 11, 2009 Author: admin

Update on the OA discussion at the U of California
Mengfei Chen, Journals: The Cost of Free Access, New University, April 20, 2009. This excerpt picks up after Chen discusses the MIT OA policy and rising journal prices: ...[Rising journal prices have], according to Lorelei Tanji, [the University of California at Irvine's] Assistant University Librarian for Collections, made it increasingly difficult for libraries to afford the journals that researchers and student use. Libraries around the United States, including the UCs, have been forced to cut the less-used titles in their collection. Tanji pointed out that part of the problem is that authors a...
Source: open access News - April 20, 2009 Author: Peter Suber

The NIH OA mandate after one year
Meredith Wadman, Open-access policy flourishes at NIH, Nature, April 7, 2009. Excerpt: One year on, advocates of free public access to scientific literature are calling a law that requires researchers at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to make their manuscripts publicly available at the PubMed Central repository a success. At the same time, the measure continues to be challenged by a senior congressman and some publishers. Since the legal requirement that NIH-funded researchers make their manuscripts publicly available after acceptance for journal publication came into effect last ...
Source: open access News - April 7, 2009 Author: Peter Suber

More on the Conyers bill: publisher breaks with publishing lobby
The Boston Globe has published two letters to the editor in response to Richard Roberts' March 23 op-ed piece defending the NIH policy and denouncing the Conyers bill (blogged here the same day). From Patricia Schroeder, President of the association of american publishers, March 30, 2009: Richard J. Roberts declared that scientific publishers must "stop trying to rob the public" of free access to taxpayer-funded scientific research ("Protect our access to medical research," op-ed, March 23). But research manuscripts are the foundation of the products developed by scientific publishers, and those pr...
Source: open access News - April 3, 2009 Author: Peter Suber

A (Publishing) House Divided: Scholarly Publishers In Support and Opposition to Public Access to Research
I wasn’t surprised to learn that the american Association of Publishers had sent a letter [PDF ] to then President-elect Obama in December opposing the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy, which requires any NIH-funded researchers to deposit a copy of what they have discovered and published in a publicly accessible archive. The aap publishers association holds that the NIH Policy infringes on their business rights, insofar as it grants the public a right to this publicly funded work, and in support of their objections, Rep. John Conyers, Democrat of Michigan, has reintroduced into Congress the questionably...
Source: Slaw - March 18, 2009 Author: John Willinsky Tags: Codicilog

More on the Boston U. policy and the supposed threat to peer review
Jon Marcus, Publishers struggle to cope with open-access tide, Times Higher Education, March 5, 2009. Boston University has become the first major US higher education institution to post its academics' research online, bypassing the traditional route of publishing papers in peer-reviewed journals, which it said restricts public access. ... But John Tagler, director of the professional and scholarly publishing division of the association of american publishers, said this was an overstatement. Most scholarly publishers give extensive rights to authors to reuse the intellectual content they provide. "It's not as restrictive...
Source: open access News - March 5, 2009 Author: Gavin Baker

How is unauthorized downloading affecting university presses?
Scott Jaschik, Pirates vs. University Presses, Inside Higher Ed, February 18, 2009. ... [T]hose involved with anti-piracy efforts say that university presses are now targets of a number of sites. In a particularly disturbing trend, some presses are reporting that pre-publication digital editions are ending up on these piracy Web sites, raising concerns about the need to better track who has access to such versions. Princeton University Press has emerged as something of an expert on the issue — a distinction the press wishes it didn’t have. Over the summer, an author the press declined to identify informed the publish...
Source: open access News - February 19, 2009 Author: Gavin Baker

Publisher views of the Conyers bill at the Aap/PSP meeting
Jennifer Howard, At Publishers' Conference, the Digital Future Is (Almost) Now, Chronicle of Higher Education, February 9, 2009 (accessible only to subscribers). Excerpt: The people who gathered here last week for the association of american publishers’ Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division's annual conference did not waste a lot of time worrying whether print is going the way of the dodo. As Matthew Nauman, director of publisher relations at Blackwell’s, put it, “A book sale is a book sale, and we don’t care what the format is.” ... The conference did devote one session to copyright and pu...
Source: open access News - February 12, 2009 Author: Peter Suber

Copyright Alliance and Aap welcome re-introduction of Conyers bill
Two publisher groups which supported the Conyers bill the last time around are supporting it again. No surprises here. From the Statement of Patrick Ross, Executive Director of the Copyright Alliance, February 4, 2009: The Copyright Alliance praises House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers for introducing HR-801, the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act.... Federal copyright law and years of precedent grant copyright owners control of the right of reproduction, distribution, and public performance and display. But in a troubling reversal of this incentivizing precedent, Congress – without cons...
Source: open access News - February 5, 2009 Author: Peter Suber

Publishing lobby appeals to Obama transition team to stop NIH policy
Allan Adler for the association of american publishers and Martin Frank for the DC Principles Coalition have released their December 22 letter to the Obama transition team, asking it to oppose the NIH policy and support the Conyers bill. Excerpt: ...In seeking to work with the new Administration, we would like to make you aware of our continuing concerns regarding the Public Access Policy of the National Institutes of Health, which effectively allows the NIH to unfairly compete directly with private-sector journal publishers in the distribution of peer-reviewed scientific journal articles that are authored by NIH...
Source: open access News - January 7, 2009 Author: Peter Suber

More on the Google settlement
Chris Castle, Is Google's culture grab unstoppable? The Register, December 31, 2008. Excerpt: Google dealt itself a powerful piece of the future in the proposed settlement of the "Google Books" case his year. The plaintiffs, the Authors Guild and the association of american publishers, permitted Google pay itself to build a proprietary technology infrastructure for a "Book Rights Registry". This effectively creates a single purpose author's society, but one that grants licenses to one user - Google. While nominally "non exclusive", there's little incentive for competitors - a for...
Source: open access News - January 1, 2009 Author: Peter Suber

LJ editorializes against Google settlement
Francine Fialkoff, Google Deal or Rip-Off? Librarians need to protect the public interest, Library Journal, December 15, 2008. An editorial. Excerpt: One public access terminal per public library building. Institutional database subscriptions for academic and public libraries that secure once freely available material in a contractual lockbox, which librarians already know too well from costly e-journal and e-reference database deals. No remote access for public libraries without approval from the publisher/author Book Rights Registry, set up to administer the program. And no copying or pasting from that i...
Source: open access News - December 16, 2008 Author: Peter Suber

More on the debate over the Google settlement
Andrea Foster, Google Settlement to Pay Lawyers Up Front, Authors Eventually: Opinions on Settlement Differ, But Negotiations Cloaked in Secrecy by Non-Disclosure Agreements, Doing the Write Thing, undated but apparently December 15, 2008. A detailed account. Excerpt: ...Publishers, scholars, and authors, along with Google, have hailed the agreement as a boon to book lovers and an ingenious solution to the thorny issue of how to fairly compensate authors and publishers in the digital age. Books and periodicals are quickly moving online, and the public, it seems, expects to read it all for free. Bu...
Source: open access News - December 16, 2008 Author: Peter Suber

SAGE Report: Meeting the Challenges: Societies and Scholarly Communication
SAGE has released Meeting the Challenges: Societies and Scholarly Communication (Thanks to Adrian K. Ho's Digital & Scholarly: News about Research and Scholarship in the Digital Age.) Here's an excerpt: The survey was supported by the Association for Learned Professional and Scholarly Publishers; the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the association of american publishers; the International Association for Science, Technical and Medical Publishers, and the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, and made available to the 600+ members of these organizations. The online survey...
Source: DigitalKoans - December 5, 2008 Author: Charles Bailey Tags: Publishing Scholarly Books Scholarly Journals

More on the Google-Publisher settlement
Here are some comments on the settlement from the press and blogosphere. From Andrew Albanese at Library Journal: ...On a conference call this morning [10/28/08], the parties said that there remained a strong difference of opinion over the copyright principles at the core of the case. “We had a major disagreement with Google, and we still do,” said Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. “We also don’t see eye-to-eye on with publishers on book contract law,” he added, before calling the settlement the “the biggest book deal” in U.S. publishing history. Taylor said two “guideposts” helped...
Source: open access News - October 30, 2008 Author: Peter Suber

Google Books news
Google, the Authors Guild, and the association of american publishers announced Oct. 28th that they had settled their longstanding legal battle over Google’s mass scanning of books. Under the terms of the deal, Google will pay $125-million to establish a Book Rights Registry, to compensate authors and publishers whose copyrighted books have already been scanned, and to cover legal costs. It isn't clear yet what this will mean to WU users. I expect we will be hearing a lot more on this story. Here are a few comments already: Google's blog post Google, Publishers, and Authors Settle Huge Book-Scanning Lawsuit (Chronicle o...
Source: Biology Library News - October 29, 2008 Author: wubiolibrarian Tags: Books & E-Books

Google and publishers settle
Google and the book publishers who sued to stop the Google library project have reached a settlement. See the aap's settlement page and press release, as well Google's settlement page, press release, and blog post. The two press releases use the same text. From the common press release (October 28, 2008): The Authors Guild, the association of american publishers (aap), and Google today announced a groundbreaking settlement agreement on behalf of a broad class of authors and publishers worldwide that would expand online access to millions of in-copyright books and other written materials in the U.S....
Source: open access News - October 28, 2008 Author: Peter Suber

More on the Springer-BMC deal
Andrea Gawrylewski, A match made in open access heaven? TheScientist, October 10, 2008. Excerpt: ...According to an Email sent to editors at BMC by the BMC publisher Matt Cockerill, BMC will be an autonomous operating unit within Springer, and everything remains business as usual.... "If BMC's presence within the organization means Springer moves closer to the BMC model and not BMC closer to the Springer Open Choice model -- then this will be a very good thing for open access," Rebecca Kennison, director of the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship at Columbia University, told The Scienti...
Source: open access News - October 11, 2008 Author: Peter Suber

More comments on the Conyers bill
Here's our third collection of comments on the Conyers bill from around the blogosphere. (Also see our first and second.) From Jonathan Blackhall at Encephalosponge: ...As a taxpayer and citizen, I cannot believe the idiocy of some of statements against open access in Congress.... From David Bollier at On the Commons: ...You would think business people could understand the simple economic proposition that taxpayers should be entitled to own and control what they pay for. But apparently not. Commercial journal publishers are now rallying to overturn the new NIH open access policy.... It’s depressing,...
Source: open access News - September 19, 2008 Author: Peter Suber

More comments on the Conyers bill
Here are some more comments on the Conyers bill from around the blogosphere. (Also see our first collection of comments, three days ago.) From The Aust Gate: ...The only people who “benefit” from [the Conyers bill] in the short term are the publishing companies who appear to be heading down the MPAA/RIAA route of trying to make increasingly short term profits....[The bill] is clearly a knee jerk reaction to the way that knowledge and its ease of transfer takes place. Publishers should be looking at changing their business models to adapt rather than trying to hold on to something that is slowly dying. Especi...
Source: open access News - September 17, 2008 Author: Peter Suber

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