On or off the Slate: University Library E-Reserve Supports Web-Based Learning

Ryerson University Library in Toronto, Canada, embarked on an E-Reserve pilot project in 2004, providing electronic links to journal articles and scanned documents for course readings. Insufficient time allowed by faculty for copyright clearance, excessive copyright cost and the difficulty of achieving a single sign-on by users to access e-Reserve in Blackboard, the University’s courseware, were the major issues. Despite setbacks, E-Reserve continued to undertake innovative projects, using the new E-Reserve module in Blackboard to integrate course readings with faculty course pages, utilizing SFX open linking to connect citations to full-text articles, and experimenting with Web streaming of videos in Blackboard.

On or off the Slate: University Library E-Reserve Supports Web-Based Learning

Ryerson University Library in Toronto, Canada, embarked on an E-Reserve pilot project in 2004, providing electronic links to journal articles and scanned documents for course readings. Insufficient time allowed by faculty for copyright clearance, excessive copyright cost and the difficulty of achieving a single sign-on by users to access e-Reserve in Blackboard, the University’s courseware, were the major issues. Despite setbacks, E-Reserve continued to undertake innovative projects, using the new E-Reserve module in Blackboard to integrate course readings with faculty course pages, utilizing SFX open linking to connect citations to full-text articles, and experimenting with Web streaming of videos in Blackboard.

Liberating Orphan Works from The Copyright Orphanage: The Malaysian Perspective

Orphan works are works that are still protected by copyright and whose owners cannot be identified or located by prospective users for copyright clearance. Many countries have addressed this issue since the emergence of the problem, and it remains a legitimate subject of inquiry in this present day. However, Malaysia is yet to initiate public consultations and formulate legislative and non-legislative solutions to the orphan work problem. Hence, this paper aspires to underline the challenges and obstacles in exploiting the orphan works in Malaysia. It starts with a brief introduction to the orphan works problem and its causes. It further highlights the legal and policy uncertainties about the orphan work phenomenon in Malaysia and its implication to higher learning education. Besides, this paper also examines the current practices in the United Kingdom and Canada. Finally, this paper proposes some suggestions into what Parliament and policymakers have to do and avoid when solving Malaysia's orphan work phenomenon. It is hoped that the access to the orphan works in Malaysia would not be problematised, thereby liberating them from the copyright orphanage. Keywords: Copyright law, Orphan works, Orphan works licensing scheme

Documenting the copyright sphere: can festivals solve the problem of copyright clearance for documentaries?

The starting point of this article is a short documentary film that I and five colleagues produced in the course of the Business of Film module at Queen Mary University of London's Intellectual Property Law LLM Programme. During the process of production, we faced some borderline issues regarding our unauthorized uses of others’ copyright works. When we put ourselves into the copyright's author's shoes, three problems arose regarding our use of possible limitations and exceptions: the lack of guidance; the fear of liability; and the unharmonized status of limitations and exceptions at an international level. This article examines these problems from a copyright policy perspective and invites documentary festivals to undertake a mission of guiding new documentary directors through the complex, unharmonized world of copyright limitations and exceptions.

Problems of the publishing business and open access in the focus of 2018 Frankfurt Book Fair

The Copyright Clearance Center held the meeting of university publishers within the framework of the Frankfurt Book Fair. The meeting proceedings were sent to the active users. We are offering several of them that might be of interest to our readers. The brief communication by Michael Kolman, IPA President: Copyright in the Crosshairs; information by the UN News, and Mark Piesing’s thoughts on “What is “Plan S” and Why Are Many Publishers Worried” (Mark Piesing is an independent journalist and a blogge). The original texts in English are give in the appendix to the paper. Read more on the problem at: https://www.scienceeurope.org/ coalition-s.

Authors’ Responsibilities and Ethical Publishing

The International Cardiovascular Forum Journal requires authors to abide by the following guidelines:Manuscript: The corresponding author declares that the manuscript has not been published and is not under consideration elsewhere.Authorship: The corresponding author takes full responsibility for the list of authors. Any modification to the author list including order and composition can only be approved by the Editor-in-Chief following signed agreement from all the authors listed on the original submission.Ethics: The corresponding author states that the material presented has been obtained with the approval of all appropriate animal and/or human ethics committee(s).Permissions: The corresponding author on behalf of all authors confirms whether explicit written consent to publish has been received from any people described, pictured, or recorded and that formal copyright clearance is obtained to publish any video or audio recordings.Registration of Clinical Trials: Prospective registration of any clinical trial in a publically accessible database is a requirement for later publication of such trials in ICFJ. In exceptional circumstance if the trial is not registered, or is registered retrospectively, the reasons for this must be given.Competing Interests: All authors must declare all relevant competing interests (financial, or non-financial, professional, or personal) and state all funding sources.Attribution: The corresponding author accepts full responsibility for the accurate citation and acknowledgement of any material reproduced from other publications including the author’s own prior work.It is incumbent upon the corresponding author to consult the Editor-in-Chief should there be any variance of the above. The Editor-in-Chief retains the right to retract any submission found to be in breach of the above guidelines.