Not all commercial publishers are alike. Of the many epithets thrown at the commercial publishers of academic works, “greedy” ranks as the most common. But for journals facing serious competition, like Library Hi Tech, the ...

How can we digitize the spoken word in a way that maximizes its usefulness and accessibility over as long a period as possible? This editorial lists six issues: copyright and ownership; selection at both the collection and ...

Der Beitrag behandelt das Thema Qualitätssicherung im Umgang mit digitalen Forschungsdaten. Es werden drei Ebenen herausgearbeitet, auf die sich die Qualitätssicherung beziehen kann: die der Forschungsdaten selbst, der ...

Early copyright laws said little about the rights of consumers. In general, the law in each country gave an exclusive, short-term right to make copies of the work as a whole. The periods were so short, and the copying ...

Purpose – This column aims to examine the influence of technology on copyright infringement and looks at the contemporary technology race between tools for rights enforcement and tools for copying and sharing. ...

Purpose – The goal of this column is not to argue the pros and cons of digital archiving, or to propose solutions to its problems, but to describe it as a research subject and a social phenomenon. Design/methodology/approach ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The statutes themselves are not the only basis for deciding whether an intellectual property rights infringement has occurred. Ethical judgments can also influence judicial rulings. This column looks at three issues of ...