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Grace Baysinger
Head Librarian & Bibliographer
Swain Library of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Email: graceb@stanford.edu
Phone: 650-725-1039
What Every Chemist Needs to Know About Copyright
By the ACS Publications Subcommittee on Copyright
What Every Chemist Should Know About Patents, 3rd Edition, 2002 (pdf) & 2006 Supplement (pdf)
By the ACS Committee on Patents & Related Matters
Posted on Liblicense-L, 10 March 2008.
OXFORD, UK, MONDAY, 10 MARCH 2008 1700GMT.
The debate on the rights that authors have (or indeed it is claimed inaccurately, do not have) over their published works continues to rage, and much coverage has been given to purportedly restrictive practices or policies, when in fact they do not exist for the majority of publishers. The most recent examples surround the vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard for university ownership and distribution of research papers (February 2008). One advocate of the Harvard policy claims that this step was taken because “the scholarly publishing system has become far more restrictive than it need be [… m]any publishers will not even allow scholars to use and distribute their own work.” (See Harvard to collect, disseminate scholarly articles for faculty, from the Harvard University Gazette).
This is not only an inaccurate perception of the role of publishers and copyright, but also means that advocating authors to modify existing journal publishing agreements with “copyright addenda” is simply a call for needless bureaucracy.
White Paper by Leading Copyright Scholar Helps Grantees Prepare for April Start of NIH Requirement
Washington, DC and Cambridge, MA — February 29, 2008 — SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), Science Commons, and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) have jointly released a white paper to help university and medical school administrators ensure their institutions comply with public access requirements that are soon to be a condition of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding.
Falconer Library is implementing after-hours card access. Access when the library is open will not be affected by this change. Effective Monday, March 10, any physical keys for Falconer’s front door will no longer function. Access will be by use of an authorized Stanford ID only, and only facilities and emergency personnel will have a physical key.
Faculty, graduate students, postdocs, and academic staff are eligible for after-hours access. Orientation tours are required and can be arranged by appointment. For grad students and postdocs outside Biology, Falconer requires an email message from the student’s adviser stating that the student needs 24-hour access to Falconer’s materials. This message should be sent to falconerlibrary@stanford.edu.
Swain’s new book list for February 2008 is now available:
