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Chisita, Collence Takaingenhamo; Chiparausha, Blessing – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2021
The article explores the recent experiences encountered by the Bindura University of Science Education (BUSE) Library, Zimbabwe in the daily operations of its institutional repository (IR) with emphasis on security and ethical issues. It examines the present scenario in the management of the IR. BUSE Library set up an IR to archive and enable…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Electronic Publishing, Archives, Academic Libraries
Grotke, Abbie – Computers in Libraries, 2011
Recent years have seen an explosion of the number of institutions involved in or beginning to think about web archiving. Many National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) members, as well as other universities, historical societies, and state and local governments, have recognized the need for and importance of preserving a variety of web content…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Cooperation, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing
Holobar, J. Christopher; Marshall, Andrew – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2011
This study examines the process of requesting copyright permissions through the Copyright Clearance Center's (CCC) pay-per-use service for electronic course reserves at the Penn State University Libraries in 2008. The authors investigate the efficiency of this process as a function of the percentage of permission requests successfully mediated by…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Research Libraries, Academic Libraries, Internet
Griffey, Jason – Library Journal, 2010
The author believes that publishers and authors will, in the digital age, benefit from freely sharing information, and that digital rights management (DRM) and other protection mechanisms are crazy. He has argued on behalf of libraries that ebooks and other digital content deserve the same First Sale rights that physical purchases have. But that…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Internet, Electronic Publishing, Library Materials
Bhatt, Anjana H. – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2010
This paper is a summary of the project that the author completed at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) library for providing online access to 80 open access E-journals and digital collections. Although FGCU uses SerialsSolutions products to establish online access, any one can provide access to these collections as they are free for all. Paper…
Descriptors: Internet, Electronic Libraries, Access to Information, Electronic Publishing
Poulos, Marios; Korfiatis, Nikolaos; Bokos, George – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2011
Purpose: This paper aims to present the semantic content identifier (SCI), a permanent identifier, computed through a linear-time onion-peeling algorithm that enables the extraction of semantic features from a text, and the integration of this information within the permanent identifier. Design/methodology/approach: The authors employ SCI to…
Descriptors: Semantics, Copyrights, Electronic Libraries, Internet
Farmer, Lesley – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2011
Intellectual pursuit and the recognition of ideas is a central concept. Copyrights protect the rights of intellectual creators while balancing those rights with the needs for access. As technologies have expanded, and production has become more sophisticated, the legal regulations surrounding their use have become more complex. With the advent of…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Web 2.0 Technologies
Jenkins, Celia; Probets, Steve; Oppenheim, Charles; Hubbard, Bill – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to show how the self-archiving of journal papers is a major step towards providing open access to research. However, copyright transfer agreements (CTAs) that are signed by an author prior to publication often indicate whether, and in what form, self-archiving is allowed. The SHERPA/RoMEO database enables…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Databases, Internet, Archives
Ashraf, Tariq, Ed.; Sharma, Jaideep, Ed.; Gulati, Puja Anand, Ed. – Information Science Publishing, 2010
The increasing prevalence of digital information systems and technologies compels libraries across the globe to update systems and provide users with a digital experience outside the confines of the structural library, providing useful benefits to the user while creating new areas of concern such as digital information preservation.…
Descriptors: Preservation, Copyrights, Information Systems, Electronic Libraries
Selwyn, Neil – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2008
Whilst the copying, falsification and plagiarism of essays and assignments has long been a prevalent form of academic misconduct amongst undergraduate students, the increasing use of the internet in higher education has raised concern over enhanced levels of online plagiarism and new types of "cyber-cheating". Based on a self-report…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Plagiarism, Cheating, Internet
Johnson, Richard K. – Association of Research Libraries, 2007
"ARL" is the bimonthly report on research library issues and actions from ARL (Association of Research Libraries), CNI (Coalition of Networked Information), and SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). "ARL" reports on current issues of interest to academic and research library administrators, staff and users; higher…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Research Libraries, Library Services, Library Materials
Balas, Janet L. – Computers in Libraries, 2005
Up until fairly recently, library collections have consisted of physical things--books; journals; audiovisual materials; and, in some libraries, collections of realia. Now, however, collections often include materials that cannot be placed on library shelves either because they are digitized versions of primary sources or because they exist only…
Descriptors: Librarians, Library Materials, Internet, Electronic Libraries
Caporizzo, Marilyn – Computers in Libraries, 2008
The Information Group at Millipore has been successfully using a digital rights management tool to secure the email distribution of archived laboratory notebooks. Millipore is a life science leader providing cutting-edge technologies, tools, and services for bioscience research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing. Consisting of four full-time…
Descriptors: Microforms, Marketing, Biological Sciences, Specialists
Geist, Michael – Education Canada, 2006
With the dramatic growth of the Internet in the 1990s, the Canadian government developed a well-regarded strategy for addressing the emerging issues posed by the "information highway." The strategy featured legal reforms to address privacy and e-commerce, administrative reforms for the government online initiative, and connectivity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Copyrights, Educational Change
Harper, Meghan – Knowledge Quest, 2007
Most school librarians do not think of copyright compliance and facilities planning in the same breath. Yet the design of space--physical and virtual--can discourage or promote compliance, or even help police it. Placement of and access to equipment, traffic patterns, signage, and student workspace all may influence copyright-compliance behavior…
Descriptors: Copyrights, School Libraries, Ethics, Librarians