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Consumers drive book
Authors, publishers and Google agree
digitisation, says survey on copyright, payment and access
Book digitisation is being driven The Authors Guild, the Google Book Search. It
by consumers, online retailers Association of American should also resolve a class-
and search engines, according to Publishers (AAP), and Google action lawsuit brought by
a survey by Frankfurt Book Fair. have reached what they book authors and the Authors
More than 1,000 industry describe as a ‘groundbreaking’ Guild, as well as a separate
professionals from 30 countries settlement over copyright and lawsuit filed by five large
responded. Some 22 per cent payment to rights holders for publishers as representatives
said that consumers were pushing cent of respondents thought that online access. of the AAP’s membership.
the move towards digitisation, publishers were driving this move This agreement, reached Under the agreement,
21 per cent said it was being and only 2 per cent thought the after two years of negotiations, Google will make payments
driven by the likes of Amazon push came from authors. should expand online access totalling $125 million. The
and 20 per cent put Google Forty per cent of respondents to millions of in-copyright money will be used to establish
as the driver. A further 13 per expect e-content to overtake books and other written the Book Rights Registry. This
cent attributed the digitisation traditional book sales as early as materials from the collections will resolve existing claims by
push to the telecommunications 2018, but a third of respondents of a number of major US authors and publishers and
sector. In contrast, just 7 per said this will never happen. libraries participating in cover legal fees.
news in brief
swets buys Dutch
worked with SGM for the past six publishing company has a particular journals. It employs around 150
book seller
years and retained the contracts focus on books and journals in the people and has revenues of around
E
Subscription services company
following an open tender process. fields of fashion, design and culture 15 million per year.
Swets has bought Boekhandel
studies. This follows Bloomsbury’s ‘This acquisition reinforces the
E. Frencken, a Netherlands-
UKPubMed Central
announcement of its own academic fact that we see open-access
based book and journal seller.
gets funding for
imprint, Bloomsbury Academic (see publishing as a sustainable
The business name Boekhandel
development
page 18). part of STM publishing, and not
E. Frencken B.V. is changing to
The UK PubMed Central website an ideological crusade,’ said
Frencken Information Services B.V.
has received funding for further science community Derk Haank, CEO of Springer
but the company will continue to be
development over the next three plans global data Science+Business Media.
based in Eindhoven with the 28 full-
years. The funding comes from library
time staff currently employed.
eight leading biomedical research Scientific organisations representing Australian OA
funding organisations. New and over 130 countries will overhaul declaration is developed
society for General improved features should include existing world data centres and
The latest statement on open
Microbiology renews direct links to the 18 million records services to create a World Data access has been released. The
Charlesworth’s contract currently available on the US System. so-called Brisbane Declaration
version of PubMed. There will also The General Assembly of the says that every citizen of Australia
be new ways to extract biological International Council for Science should have free open access to
information from research papers (ICSU) has agreed to take the first publicly-funded research, data
using text analysis and data-mining steps towards an interoperable data and knowledge, and that every
To make it happen, he needs you.
tools. In addition, access to content system that will extend around the Australian university should have
not included in traditional journal world and across all areas of science. access to a digital repository to
As an information specialist, you do much more than do it. Because, we put the right content from over
literature such as clinical guidelines, This plan is in response to store its research outputs for this
connect individuals to publications. You help them 79,000 publishers at your disposal. We support you
Charlesworth’s Marion Morrow
technical reports and conference uncertainty about the quality, long- purpose. This repository should
find the inspiration they need to make academic with more than 130 trained librarians. And we provide
formalises the contract with SGM chief proceedings is promised, as is a term stewardship and availability of contain all materials reported in the
breakthroughs. Invent the next big thing. Maybe even information management systems that free up
executive Ron Fraser (pictured right)
new intuitive interface. scientific data and information. Higher Education Research Data
solve a global problem. And, as the world’s leading your time so you can focus on your users. After all,
and Robin Dunford, journals manager
Collection (HERDC). In addition, the
at SGM
information services provider, EBSCO can help you who knows what the next genius will ask for?
bloomsbury buys berg springer buys bioMed deposit of materials should take
The Charlesworth Group has
Publishers Central place as soon as possible, and
retained its contract for the
Bloomsbury Publishing is buying Springer is acquiring the open- in the case of published research
typesetting and manufacturing of all
Oxford International Publishers, access publisher BioMed Central. articles should be of the author’s
the Society for General Microbiology
which trades under the name BioMed Central has over 180 final draft at the time of acceptance,
(SGM) journals. Charlesworth has
Berg Publishers. This academic open-access peer-reviewed says the declaration.
ebsco.com
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