Thursday, June 25, 2015

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Copyright Office’s New Orphan Works Report Contains Flawed Legislative Proposal | AALL's Washington Blawg

Posted: 25 Jun 2015 12:23 AM PDT

"On June 4, the Copyright Office released its new Orphan Works and Mass Digitization report, updating its 2006 and 2011 reports on the same topic. The new report analyzes past orphan works legislation, recent legal developments (including the Authors Guild v. Google and Authors Guild v. Hathi Trust), international models, public comments, and discussions from recent roundtables. A major section of the report is dedicated to the Copyright Office's recommendation for orphan works legislation. While AALL generally favors a legislative solution to the orphan works problem, we oppose the draft as written primarily because of the strict definition of a qualifying search and the notice of use requirement. The Copyright Office's proposal is a modified version of the Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act (S. 2913) as passed by the Senate in 2008. It includes a requirement for limited remedies when a user of an orphan work has conducted a diligent, good faith search for a rights holder and reasonable compensation for rights holders with a special provision for noncommercial actors (including libraries) engaged in noncommercial use of orphan works. The draft also includes an important fair use savings clause, stating that it does not affect any right, limitation, or defense to copyright infringement, including fair use, under Title 17. However, the definition of a good faith diligent search has many required elements that AALL finds troubling. The search requirements include, at a minimum, a search of Copyright Office records on the Internet, sources containing authorship and ownership information, technology tools, databases, and even Copyright Office records that are not available on the Internet. We object to this definition, which mirrors that included in the Senate version of the Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008, because we believe its requirements would be too resource-intensive for law libraries ..."

[YEAR-AC2015] Putting Open Access into practice | Foster

Posted: 25 Jun 2015 12:20 AM PDT

"This seminar on putting open access into practice led by Nancy Pontika was recorded at the YEAR Annual Conference 2015 in Espoo, FI ..."

Press release archive: About NPG

Posted: 25 Jun 2015 12:11 AM PDT

"Building on its established leadership in multidisciplinary publishing, Nature Publishing Group's (NPG) open access and interdisciplinary journal publishing programs are flourishing. The publisher says that open access, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research are all essential to accelerate progress, aid collaboration and meet the needs of the research community. For the second year running, three NPG titles dominate the multidisciplinary science category of the Thomson Reuters 2014 Journal Citation Report*, with Nature, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports ranking first, third and fifth respectively. Nature Communications also appears in the overall top 150 journals for the first time ..."

Prize4Life, Sage Bionetworks and DREAM Launch an Open Science Challenge to Find Clues to Understanding Heterogeneity in Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) | Business Wire

Posted: 25 Jun 2015 12:09 AM PDT

"Today Prize4Life (http://www.prize4life.org.il/) in partnership with Sage Bionetworks (www.sagebase.org) and the DREAM Challenges (www.dreamchallenges.org) announced the opening of the DREAM ALS Stratification Prize4Life Challenge (https://www.synapse.org/#!Synapse:syn2873386/wiki/), a global open science data analysis competition geared to develop more personalized approaches for the research, prognosis and treatment of ALS ... The key goal of the DREAM ALS Stratification Prize4Life Challenge (or ALS Stratification Challenge) is to identify the attributes that differentiate ALS patients. Such information will help patients and families plan accordingly to increase their quality of life and will also help guide the development of so-called stratified ALS clinical trials that could enroll specific ALS subgroups for the testing of new treatments.  The ALS Stratification Challenge will run from June to mid-September, 2015, and spur the development of quantitative solutions to stratify ALS patients based on their disease progression or survival.  Prize4Life is providing the largest open ALS clinical trials database in the world (PRO-ACT: https://nctu.partners.org/ProACT), which will serve as the basis for the Challenge. Sage Bionetworks and DREAM have created an engaging set of incentives and a cloud-based Challenge environment — called Synapse (www.synapse.org) — where Challenge participants can access and analyze the data, work alone or on teams, submit their quantitative solutions to a leaderboard for scoring against a hidden validation data set and share their ideas, code, and analysis results with others in the Challenge. IBM is donating computational resources for the Challenge and working with Sage Bionetworks to provide a cloud-based environment to empower participants with limited computational power. An exciting technical feature of this Challenge is that participants will submit their open source algorithms in a portable framework to the IBM cloud for scoring. At the end of the Challenge all of the submitted analysis methods will be available on Sage's Synapse platform as a Challenge library and community resource that can serve as the basis of ongoing research ..."

About us | News | Max Planck in-house | Three Open Access journals move to Springer

Posted: 25 Jun 2015 12:05 AM PDT

"Springer has acquired the three pioneering 'living' open access journals: Living Reviews in Relativity (impact factor 19.25), Living Reviews in Solar Physics (impact factor 17.64)and the recently launched journal Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics from the Max Planck Society.Furthermore, Springer has acquired the domain names livingreviews.org and livingreviews.eu, all registered Living Reviews trademarks, as well as the journals' wordmarks and logos ..."
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