PSP . . . Links, No. 74 - November 15, 2011

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PSP 2012 Annual Conference
Prospering with Digital: Making Investments Pay
February 1-3, 2012
Mayflower Hotel
Washington, DC
PSP 2012 Annual Conference Program
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For more information on all of these seminars, please visit http://publishers.org/psp/seminars/.

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3. Other Programs of Interest

American Library Association Midwinter Conference
January 20th — 24th
Dallas
http://www.alamidwinter.org/

ACRL/ SPARC Forum at ALA Midwinter
January 21st (4:00 — 6:00 PM)
Dallas
http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/save-the-date-sparc-acrl-forum-at-ala-in-dallas.shtml

Building Your Social Media Plan (NFAIS Webinar)
January 25th 11:00 AM (EST)
http://www.nfais.org/page/356-2011-12-email-marketing-series

4. New Job Postings

University of California Press is seeking an Editorial Director. The Editorial Director must be well versed in the rapidly changing trends in scholarly publishing, innovations in digital publishing and technology, and the broader trends driving change in UC Press’s core markets. Must have demonstrated the ability to think and act strategically while demonstrating the hands-on skills to manage and expand a high quality, innovative publishing program. The Editorial Director will have extensive experience of successfully managing author relationships and negotiations.

For full details, please visit http://www.pspcentral.org/jobOpenings/jobsOpenFrame.cfm to view these and other exciting career opportunities. To post a position please contact spinto@publishers.org.

5. Suggested Reading

(Please note: some links may require passwords)

Web Sites of Interest

On November 4th, The Office of Science and Technology Policy posted two Requests for Information in the Federal Register. The first invites recommendations on approaches for long-term stewardship and broad public access to the peer-reviewed scholarly publications that result from federally funded scientific research. The second offers the opportunity for interested individuals and organizations to provide recommendations on approaches for ensuring long-term stewardship and encouraging broad public access to unclassified digital data that result from federally funded scientific research. PSP will be drafting a response, but we suggest PSP members review the requests in each posting, and members are encouraged to submit comments to the OSTP. Anyone interested in further information on PSP activities in this area may contact John Tagler jtagler@publishers.org.
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-11-04/html/2011-28623.htm
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-11-04/html/2011-28621.htm

Leading North American institutions endorse the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge
http://www.berlin9.org/news/11-1109.shtml

Articles of Interest

Copyright & Intellectual Property

The Copyright Evolution
InfoToday— 11/11
For information professionals, issues surrounding copyright compliance have traditionally been on the consumption side. It’s challenging enough to ensure that content usage within an organization is in accordance with negotiated licenses, especially as the channels for that content broaden, information centers decentralize, and the devices for consuming that content proliferate.

E-Books

Could Amazon’s Lending Library End in Court?
PW— 11/9/11
As more information has come to light about the Lending Library program Amazon launched last week, the tenor in the industry has shifted from puzzlement to anger. Although Amazon initially said it reached a "variety of terms" with publishers to include their titles in the Lending Library program, which allows Amazon Prime members to borrow one title per month for free, PW has learned that the overwhelming majority of publishers with titles featured in the program did not reach any agreement with the retailer.

Amazon, Now a Book Lender
Wall Street Journal— 11/3/11
As the e-reader and tablet wars heat up, Amazon.com Inc. is launching a digital-book lending library that will be available only to owners of its Kindle and Kindle Fire devices who are also subscribers to its Amazon Prime program.

For Amazon Prime Readers, a Lending Library
New York Times — 11/3/11
With less than two weeks to go before the new Kindle is in the hands of the masses, Amazon is aiming to stoke sales with more benefits. It recently announced a new program that loans eligible customers a free e-book every month.

Amazon Lights the Fire with Free Books
New York Times — 11/3/11
Today, Amazon unveiled something radical: the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. You get to download one Kindle book a month, with no due dates, free, if you’re an Amazon Prime member and a Kindle owner.

Kindle Lending Library Takes a Chance with Borrowing Books
Wired — 11/3/11
Amazon unveiled a long-rumored “Netflix-for-books” digital lending library. Via yet another enhancement for Amazon Prime, subscribers who also own Kindles can borrow one (and only one) book per month from about 5,000 available titles.

Higher Education

QuickWire: Tutoring Company Removes Copyrighted Materials from Web Site
Chronicle of Higher Ed — 11/9/11
The online tutoring site Student of Fortune, recently acquired by textbook vendor Chegg Inc., has reached a settlement over the claims of copyright and trademark infringement made against the site before the acquisition. The claims come from five major higher-education publishers—The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc., John Wiley & Sons Inc., Cengage Learning Inc., Pearson Education Inc., and Elsevier Inc.

Online Programs Face New Demands from Accreditors
Chronicle of Higher Ed — 11/6/11
In some circles, online education has a bad reputation. Accusations that some for-profit companies prey on unsuspecting students to rake in federal financial aid have led to image problems for the sector.

Tuition Jumps 8.3% Doubling Inflation as Obama Plans Debt Relief
Bloomberg — 11/4/1
Tuition and fees at U.S. public universities soared 8.3 percent this year, twice the rate of inflation, to an average $8,244, a College Board report found. Non-profit private college costs rose 4.5 percent to $28,500.

How For-Profit Colleges Fail Their Graduate Students
Chronicle of Higher Education — 11/2/11
But I have noticed with growing consternation that my clients from for-profit institutions find themselves without the mentoring and guidance they need as graduate students. Recruiters from for-profit colleges promise students that they will be helped through the learning process, but once enrolled, some students find that they are entirely on their own.

Ebrary announces initial results of 2011 Global Student E-book Survey
Knowledgespeak — 11/2/11
The survey of more than 6,500 students reveals that e-book usage and awareness have not increased significantly in 2011 over 2008. Preference for printed books over electronic books has not changed - both are still equally important, the survey noted.

Libraries

Research and Markets: Library Use of eBooks, 2012 Edition - Libraries Will Spend a Mean of $118,453 on E-Books in 2011 and Anticipate Spending a Mean of $128,712 In 2012
CNBC (BusinessWire)— 11/11/11
Research and Markets http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/86f53c/library_use_of_ebo) has announced the addition of the "Library Use of eBooks, 2012 Edition" report to their offering. Library Use of eBooks 2012 Edition also gives detailed data on current and future spending plans on tablet computers, eBook readers, e-directories, e-textbooks, e-audio books and many other forms of e-books.

Library Copyright Alliance Voices Concerns Over Anti-Piracy Legislation
Library Journal— 11/9/11
The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA)—whose members include the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the Association of College & Research Libraries—yesterday released a letter written to the ranking members of the House Judiciary Committee to voice "serious concerns" about two provisions in H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which could greatly increase penalties for copyright infringement.

The Bibliotech: Library of the Future, Now
New York Times — 11/6/11
The University of Chicago’s new Joe and Rika Mansueto Library is a futuristic bubble of a building with nary a stack in site. Many of its nearly one million items — special collections, journals, dissertations, documents — can be accessed online.

Academic Libraries Expand Their Publishing Services, but With Limited Resources
Chronicle of Higher Education— 11/1/11
Publishing services offered by academic libraries are “expanding and professionalizing,” says a new report based on a survey of library directors at research and liberal-arts institutions. But those publishing operations are often still hampered by a lack of full-time staffing and by the small scale of much of what they do.

Open Access & Institutional Repositories

Open-access science journal, eLife, leaves editing to the experts
Times Higher Education — 11/5/11
A new open-access life and biomedical sciences journal, conceived with the aim of transforming research communication and speeding up the publication process, has announced its title and editorial team. The journal, supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust, will be known as eLife.

Piracy

This Week in Tech: Online piracy bill moves front and center
The Hill — 11/14/11
The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday devoted exclusively to the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill from chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) that would significantly expand the government's authority to enforce copyright protections online.

House Hearing on Stop Online Piracy Act Scheduled
PCWorld — 11/11/11
A number of digital rights and tech trade groups have objected to the bill, with some critics saying it would allow copyright holders to target sites with user-generated content, including YouTube and Twitter.

Piracy legislation needed to battle huge problem, experts say
IT World— 11/10/11
Legislation in the U.S. Congress that would allow federal law enforcement officials to block websites accused of copyright piracy is necessary because of the vast number of foreign sites trading in infringing music and movies and counterfeit products, two supporters of the bills said.

Google’s Piracy Liability
Forbes — 11/9/11
Why the hostility to anti-piracy legislation? Google’s mission: “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” presumes that Google can index, scrape or copy most any information, including any private property, that it can find online, and then distribute parts of it to others for free.

RIAA chief: Copyright bills won’t kill the Internet
CNET— 11/8/11
There is a place for passionate, vigorous debate over rogue-Web-sites legislation pending in the House (the Stop Online Piracy Act) and Senate (Protect IP Act). We welcome it. Facts are always useful, and especially in this instance.

The Stop Online Piracy Act: Big Content's full-on assault against the Safe Harbor
Ars Technica— 11/7/11
The latest offensive in the content industry's never-ending war on copyright infringement is the Stop Online Piracy Act, which was introduced in the House two weeks ago. It incorporates key provisions of the Senate's Protect IP Act as well as another Senate bill that makes unauthorized streaming a felony. But it also includes new provisions that go beyond the language in either of those bills. If passed, it would be the most sweeping overhaul of copyright law in at least a decade.

Copyright Overhaul Pushed to Protect U.S. Intellectual Property
Bloomberg Businessweek — 11/4/11
Entertainment and software industry groups urged Congress to protect their economic health by approving legislation aimed at combating websites that sell illegal copies of movies, music and computer programs.

Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Fails to Distinguish “Rogue” from “Real” International Online Pharmacies
SFGate — 11/4/11
“It is imperative that Congress recognize the difference between ‘rogue’ versus ‘real’ online pharmacies. Recently introduced legislation in the House of Representatives, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), includes a definition of ‘rogue’ that is even broader than in its Senate counterpart, the PROTECT IP Act.

Sec. Clinton: No contradiction between Web freedom and IP rights
The Hill— 11/4/11
There is no incongruity between enforcing intellectual property rights online and protecting freedom of expression on the Web, according to a letter from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.).

Supporters, Critics Spar Over Piracy Bills
National Journal — 11/3/11
Lawmakers who back legislation that would crack down on piracy and counterfeiting on foreign websites pushed back Wednesday against critics who say that the measures could undermine the growth of new technologies and services on the Internet.

Why Anti-Piracy Legislation Will Become Law
Forbes— 11/2/11
Pending legislation to combat online piracy will very likely pass into law in 2012. The effort enjoys exceptionally broad bipartisan political backing because of the obvious pressing need to stop rampant online piracy that undercuts American economic growth and destroys hundreds of thousands of American jobs.

Stop Online Piracy Act would stop online innovation
SF Gate— 11/2/11
A bipartisan bill introduced last week in the House of Representatives would mark a fundamental change in Internet law, shifting liability for copyright piracy from the infringer to the host website.

Tech groups say online piracy bill would create 'nightmare' for Web and social media firms
The Hill — 10/31/11
A new online piracy bill unveiled in the House last week would stifle innovation and create a regulatory "nightmare" for Web and social media firms, according to three prominent technology industry advocacy groups.

U.S. government also a villain in piracy act story
CNET — 10/31/11
SOPA, also called the "E-PARASITE Act" (I mean, really?) is the darker version of the already dark Protect IP Act, which has been dogged by free speech, technical and even constitutional concerns. But far from offering a reasonable alternative to Protect IP, the House delivered SOPA, which would let content owners bypass cops, courts and any semblance of due process, and "disappear" entire Web domains like some kind of privatized secret police force.

Opposition to Stop Online Piracy Act Grows
PC World — 10/31/11
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the Computers and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) and NetCoalition, an association representing major ISPs, jointly sent letter to members of Congress expressing concern over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) legislation introduced last week in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Major Book Publisher Files Mass-BitTorrent Lawsuit
TorrentFreak — 10/31/11
John Wiley and Sons, one of the world's largest book publishers, have sued 27 BitTorrent users at a federal court in New York. The publisher claims that the defendants have shared copies of its “For Dummies” books without permission.

Professional & Scholarly Publishing

Scientific exchanges with China broke the law
Washington Times — 11/2/11
Obama administration officials broke the law by holding science and technology exchanges with Beijing contrary to legislation banning such cooperation, members of Congress and congressional auditors said Wednesday.

Why the world of scientific research needs to be disrupted
GigaOM — 10/31/11
Traditional media players such as newspapers, magazines and book publishers often get criticized for being slow to change and uninterested in technological progress, but as we’ve pointed out before, there is another world that makes these industries look like the most enthusiastic of early adopters: namely, academic research.

General Interest

The bookstore in the digital age
American Public Media Marketplace— 11/7/11
Well I want to start by asking you to be a representative of the book industry and tell me a question that I've been wondering about for a while: Why has Barnes & Noble survived, and Borders gone out of business?

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