Melissa Levine
Lead Copyright Officer and Principal Investigator
University of Michigan

Richard C. Adler
Copyright Review Management System Special Projects Librarian
University of Michigan

This presentation will include a review of the achievements of the Institute of Museum and Library Services-funded Copyright Review Management System (CRMS) project and it will consider the promise this effort holds for the future of access to electronic scholarly resources. The project has established reliable, responsible processes for assessing the copyright status of books in the HathiTrust Digital Library. There are two areas of focus to date. In the CRMS-US effort, copyright determinations have been made for over 200,000 books published in the US between 1923 and 1963. In the more recently established CRMS-World (a collaboration of over 20 reviewers at 14 academic institutions), copyright status determination for another 170,000 titles published in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom is beginning. The goal is grand, yet simple: to learn more about the copyright status of books in the HathiTrust and to make books identified as ‘no longer subject to copyright’ available for anyone to read, thus fulfilling the promise of the public domain.

https://www.lib.umich.edu/imls-national-leadership-grant-crms-world
http://www.hathitrust.org/

SIPX (formerly the Stanford Intellectual Property Exchange) is a new Web-based technology service created to manage copyrights and deliver digital documents for the higher-education marketplace. Developed from interdisciplinary work between Stanford’s computer science and law faculties, the SIPX research focused on using information technology to address copyright problems such as prohibitive cost, overly complex procedures, availability of quality open content, and liability. The original research goals have not changed: to improve teaching and scholarship by empowering educators with critical information and choices, and to eliminate many copyright barriers and friction points – ultimately also serving as a tool for fair market efficiency, transparency, and copyright and content policy adjustment. The SIPX solution networks together key data, components and stakeholders needed in one easy-to-use end-to-end system, thereby enabling real-time computing of copyright decisions on course materials, faster, legally, and more easily, and combining in options for royalty-free and open content alongside paid content. The system can be used as a stand-alone platform, or blend into current university systems such as library management systems (LMS) and massive open online courses (MOOCs) with global classrooms. The end result: students access content easily, simply, at the best possible price that highlights their cost savings from institutionally-licensed content, and educators and faculty support staff save time and effort. SIPX analytics also provide benefits to all parties: (i) for professors and students, real-time pricing allows optimal selection of cost-effective materials; (ii) for librarians, usage data and purchase information help optimize subscription budgets; and (iii) for university counsel, comprehensive insights into how course materials are used allows better analysis of potential risks.

SIPX was first used at Stanford in April 2011, and the company completed its spinout in October 2012 when it closed its initial institutional financing. It is currently working on a number of implementations, pilots and MOOCs with other institutions, ranging from small community colleges to Big 10 and large research universities, that are slated to launch in the coming spring and fall academic sessions.

 http://www.sipx.com

Michael Boock
Head of the Center for Digital Scholarship and Services, Libraries & Press
Oregon State University

Deborah Ludwig
Assistant Dean, Libraries
University of Kansas

Diane Geraci
Associate Director for Information Resources, Libraries
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

James Mullins
Dean of Libraries
Purdue University

This panel of presenters from members of the Coalition of Open Access Institutions (COAPI) will present information about what strategies have been most successful in fostering a culture of open access (OA) at their universities. Each presenter will highlight different strategies for enabling OA to succeed. Some of the topics to be discussed include: strategies for getting faculty buy-in, benefits of OA deposit for articles in terms of impact, the land grant institutional context mandating public access to publicly funded research, most effective outreach programs to raise awareness, working with the individual departments and schools to gain their support, and strategies for working with university administrations to ensure OA success.

http://www.arl.org/sparc/about/COAPI/

Presentation (UNT)
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Presentation(MIT)
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On October 11, 2010, EDUCAUSE, in collaboration with the League for Innovation in the Community College, the International Association of K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL), and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) announced up to $20 million in funding for campuses, consortia, organizations, and government agencies as part of the first wave of grants for Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC). NGLC is a new effort to identify and scale technology-enabled approaches that dramatically improve college readiness and completion, particularly for low-income young adults. In this interactive session, attendees can learn more about NGLC, including future grant opportunities, and participate in an open dialogue with initiative staff.

http://nextgenlearning.org

M. Claire Stewart
Head, Digital Collections
Northwestern University

David Lowe
Digital Programs Team Leader
University of Connecticut

Libraries involved in large scale digitization projects with partners such as Google and the Internet Archive have sallied forth with confidence as long as they have focused on making openly accessible those published materials with imprints up to and including 1922. However, the copyright waters of 1923 and beyond become much murkier, and the uncertain fate of the Google Book Settlement (GBS)—likely to be dry-docked in the courts for some time to come—has distracted libraries from much forward progress on broadening access to digitized book collections. In fact in practice, the GBS only begins where public domain ends, and opportunities to identify public domain titles and gather permissions from rights holders are available to libraries seeking to broaden access to their digitized materials. This session will include discussion of post-1922 book copyright evaluation workflows developed at the presenters’ institutions:

• University of Michigan’s IMLS-funded project to identify public domain titles among books in the HathiTrust Digital Library
• Northwestern University’s copyright checking workflow and preliminary work to gather author permissions for locally digitized books
• University of Connecticut’s 1923-1977 decision tree.

The presenters hope to foster discussion about establishing community practices and procedures that libraries can follow to provide open online access to hundreds of thousands of post-1922 titles.

http://www.lib.umich.edu/imls-national-leadership-grant-crms
http://books.northwestern.edu/
http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/libr_pubs/21/

Handout (PDF)
Handout 2 (PDF)