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Subject: Essay on Electronic Peer-Reviewed Work Generates
Debate
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Subject: Public Domain Suits
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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Essay on Electronic Peer-Reviewed Work Generates Debate
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
January 11, 2002
ESSAY ON SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING GENERATES DEBATE
"Op. Cit," Policy Perspectives
http://www.irhe.upenn.edu/pubs
http://www.irhe.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/cat.pl#V10N3
>Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:19:29 -0500
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>>To: H-NCC@H-NET.MSU.EDU
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>NCC WASHINGTON UPDATE, Vol. 8, #1, January 11, 2002
>by Bruce Craig <rbcraig@nccph.org
>National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History (NCCPH)
4. ESSAY ON SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING GENERATES DEBATE
According to an essay recently published by the Knight Higher Education
Collaborative universities and colleges should establish policies declaring
peer-reviewed work in electronic form suitable for consideration in
promotion and tenure decisions. The publication, based on the Roundtable
on Scholarly Communication in the Humanities and Social Sciences jointly
convened in March 2001 by the Association of Research Libraries, the
National Humanities Alliance, and the Knight Collaborative with support
from the National Endowment for the Humanities also advocates that active
and continuing partnerships are needed to help ensure viability as markets
and technology recast the dynamics of scholarly publishing.
According to the essay, "developing venues of electronic publication in
conjunction with existing modes of print publication offers a means of
expanding the size of the audience that the humanities and social sciences
might address." But as the essay recognizes, scholars may be reluctant to
adopt electronic publishing if it jeopardizes their chances for promotion
and tenure. Scholars need assurances that scholarly work addressed to a
broader audience and peer-reviewed scholarship published in electronic form
will be considered legitimate forms of scholarly activity. University
policies can help accelerate the cultural shifts needed to make this happen
states the report.
"This round table focusing on the humanities and social sciences grew out
of a series of conversations that have taken place in conferences,
roundtables, and National Humanities Alliance committee discussions over
the past several years," notes Duane Webster, Executive Director of the
Association of Research Libraries. "We hope the essay will encourage
active discussion in the broader community and the development of
innovative partnerships in electronic publishing."
Individual copies of the December 2001 issue of Policy Perspectives can be
obtained from the Institute for Research on Higher Education, University of
Pennsylvania, 4200 Pine Street, 5A, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4090; phone
(215) 898-4585. The issue is available on the Web at
<www.irhe.upenn.edu/pubs>.
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NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community January 11, 2002
ELDRED v. ASHCROFT CASE UPDATES Additional Suit: Golan v. Ashcroft <http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvashcroft/> http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvashcroft/cert/library-amicus.pdf http://www.law.asu.edu/HomePages/Karjala/OpposingCopyrightExtension/
There is increasing pressure for the Supreme Court to consider the suit against the government on the unconstitutionality of the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act that extended copyright protection by 20 years. A recent amicus brief by four library associations, the Digital Future Coalition and the Society of American Archivists joins four other amicus briefs by copyright law professors, constitutional law professors, the Eagle Forum and Cato Institute and the Internet Archive.
In case the Supreme Court decides against hearing this case, plaintiffs have filed another suit Golan v. Ashcroft. Professors Larry Lessig and Edward Lee of Stanford and Professors Jonathan Zittrain and Charles Nesson of Harvard are representing the plaintiffs, along with the Denver law firm of Wheeler Trigg & Kennedy.
Lawrence Golan is a conductor and University of Denver music professor. He and other plaintiffs, claim that the copyright law prevents them from performing works by notable foreign composers by making the royalty fees for performing the music cost-prohibitive. Furthermore, they argue that the law violates the limitations imposed on copyrights by the copyright clause of the U.S. Constitution, namely that copyrights be limited in duration and that they "promote the Progress of Science and useful arts."
David Green ===========
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