This panel will discuss The Digital Dilemma,  a newly-released report of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council. The Digital Dilemma  discusses the complex labyrinth of technology, law, economics, social science, and public policy that shapes digital intellectual property, with an emphasis on copyright. Acknowledging and describing profound differences in outlook among stakeholders, it illuminates the major policy issues relating to intellectual property in the networked environment, describes the principal differences in opinion on those issues, distinguishes among the more and less tractable issues, and offers recommendations. Specific issues examined include the implications of digital intellectual property for fair use, private use, public access and archiving, technical protection mechanisms, and business models.

In their book, Unleashing the Killer App,  Downes and Mui discuss the "Law of the Diminishing Firm" as the expression of the work of economist Ronald Coase in the Internet era. This session will explore these ideas in the context of higher education and connect them to the growing focus on "virtual universities."

The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is an open standards activity that supports the development of a cross disciplinary, international standard for resource description on the Web. This session will describe recent developments from the 7th International Dublin Core Workshop, summarize the Dublin Core workplan for the year 2000, and discuss the relationship of the Dublin Core to other metadata initiatives.

The full text journal marketplace is complex, confusing, and changing daily. In this presentation, we will describe some common models for full text delivery, and address the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. We will explore the attributes of distributed vs. aggregated full text vendors, examine the impact of prepackaged vs. customized groupings of content, and look at the way that static vs. live linking affects administration of full text systems. Finally, we will explore trends for future full text delivery.

With these models as a common basis for discussion, we'll provide an overview of the development of Ovid's OpenLinks Toolkit. The OpenLinks Toolkit provides Ovid sites with the tools to define live links from Ovid bibliographic databases to external full text targets using metadata from the citations. We will discuss this project both in terms of technical and marketplace requirements and challenges, and will also place it in context of available and projected full text delivery models.

In October, 1999 Arizona State University hosted the first interdisciplinary national conference on preservation and access for electronic records produced by colleges and universities. University registrars, attorneys, policy developers and academic administrators met with archivists, librarians, technology professionals and records managers to share and compare perspectives on what should be saved and how it should be saved. Electronic mail, electronic courseware, enterprise-level information system design, distributed computing and preservation of web based records were discussed in the contexts of selection, preservation, accessibility and privacy for students and staff. The conference generated national press coverage in the Chronicle of Higher Education  and at office.com. A brief overview of the conference issues will be followed by substantial discussion of how to expand this dialogue, establish best practices and communicate them to university administrators.

The presentation describes an extensible model for implementing a user-centered, customizable interface to a library's collection of information resources. This model, called MyLibrary, integrates principles of librarianship (collection, organization, dissemination, and evaluation) with globally networked computing resources creating a dynamic, customer-driven front-end to any library's set of materials. The model supports a framework for libraries to provide enhanced access to local and remote sets of data, information, and knowledge. At the same time, the model does not overwhelm its users with too much information because the users control exactly how much information is displayed to them at any given time. The model is active and not passive; direct human interaction, computer mediated guidance and communication technologies, as well as current awareness services all play indispensable roles in this system.