A comprehensive review of Copyright law announced; a presentation on the challenges libraries face in network environment; ORCID, ISNI plan interoperability; Thomson Reuters launches EndNote Basic online offering; Tumblrimproves sharing, Pocket and Instapaper support; Brooklyn Public Library inks innovative deal with Simon and Schuster; Stockholm University Chooses EBSCO’s Custom Discovery solution; and Nature introduces new measures to improve transparency and reproducibility.
U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte Announces Comprehensive Review of Copyright Law
InfoDOCKET reports that “today House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) announced that the Judiciary Committee will conduct a comprehensive review of U.S. copyright law over the coming months. The announcement was made at the World Intellectual Property Day celebration at the Library of Congress…”
- “Rightscaling, Engagement, Learning” Slides Address Challenges Libraries Face in Network Environment
This presentation by Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC’s Vice President, Research and Chief Strategist, looks at the three important challenges libraries face in this environment: rightscaling infrastructure; the shift to engagement; and institutional innovation. Mr. Dempsey “presented these “Rightscaling, engagement, learning: reconfiguring the library for a network environment” slides in his keynote on 10 April at The Higher Education Technology Agenda (THETA) Australasia 2013 conference in Hobart, Tasmania (AU). They are available for download (.pptx: 6.5MB/57 slides) from the OCLC Research website and for viewing on SlideShare. In addition, a video (55:10) of Lorcan’s presentation is also available online.”
KnowledgeSpeak reports “ORCID and ISNI have issued a joint statement on the need for interoperation between the two organisations and about the first collaborative steps in defining system interoperability. While ORCID is an international, interdisciplinary, open and not-for-profit organisation, ISNI is a UK-based non-for-profit organisation…”
- Thomson Reuters launches EndNote Basic online offering, provides researchers with new alternative in the marketplace
KnowledgeSpeak also notes that “the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the launch of its EndNote Basic online offering, an enhanced solution with features and functionality for reference management users looking for a free alternative.
EndNote Basic includes storage for two gigabytes of attachments and 50,000 references, as well as the top 20+ most frequently used styles…”
Readers, rejoice B’klyn Public Library inks innovative pact for e-books
Publisher to try novel approach, asking patrons if they would like to buy a copy of any e-book that is already checked out. The BPL and other city libraries will then get a 2% cut of the profits from each book sold. Publisher Simon & Schuster Monday agreed to make its complete collection of electronic books available at the Brooklyn Public Library — and in Manhattan, too — starting on April 30, and later in Queens
PaidContent reports that “Tumblr is making it easier to save content to read for later, with updates to its iOS app released Wednesday. The updated version of the app now lets users save Tumblr posts to Pocket and Instapaper and share them via Facebook, Twitter and other services. Users can also email the full text of a post to someone else…”
According to this press release “Stockholm University in Sweden has selected EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) from EBSCO as its new custom discovery solution. The library wanted to provide more innovative services to its students and EDS provided them with the single interface they were looking for and the ability to navigate their searches through a native interface and an API…”
New measures to improve the consistency and quality of reporting in the life sciences research published in Nature and the Nature Research journals are being introduced. An Editorial in Nature highlights the problems that result from publishers exerting insufficient scrutiny and failing to publish enough information for other researchers to assess the reliability of results. It also announces measures to improve procedures at the Nature journals, including systematically ensuring the reporting of key methodological details, increasing the space given to methods sections and examining statistics more closely.
Central to the initiative is a checklist that will prompt authors to disclose technical and statistical information in their submissions and encourage referees to consider aspects important for research reproducibility. It focuses on a small number of often-incompletely reported elements of experimental and analytical design that are crucial to the interpretation of research results; it also consolidates several existing policies about data deposition and presentation. In addition, the Nature journals will employ statisticians as consultants on certain papers, abolish length restrictions on methods sections and encourage authors to provide data underlying figures in papers.
The editorial concludes that “tackling these issues is a long-term endeavour that will require the commitment of funders, institutions, researchers and publishers” and urges others to “do whatever they can to improve research reproducibility”.
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