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On 20th December 2012, the UK Government published the White Paper Modernising Copyright, setting out its proposals for reforming UK copyright law, based on the recommendations made in Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property and Growth, published in May 2011. However, there has been some dilution of the Hargreaves recommendations as a result of the consultation…
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CHINA A key objective for the Wiley China Publishing team in 2013/14 was to increase external editorial participation from Chinese editors and editorial board members. This involves getting the right people onto the editorial boards of our journals people who can add value to the journals and aid in their growth in China, empowering…
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Mark Robertson
Vice President & Publishing Director
Societies Research
Many people talk of Open Access as if its a single strategy or ideal, but it can take many different forms. Commentary often ignores the differences or assumes a level of understanding, so it may be useful to provide some explanation of key phrases and concepts and to highlight some of the different Creative Commons…
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On October 4, 2012 the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Google announced a settlement agreement that enables Google to provide access to the books and journals it has digitized for its Google Library Project. The settlement acknowledges the rights and interests of copyright holders. One of the main objections to the library project was…
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The last comprehensive textbook on journal publishing was published in 1997 (Journal Publishing by Page, Campbell and Meadows) . Its successor, Academic and Professional Publishing, edited by Bob Campbell (Wiley), Ed Pentz ( CrossRef), and Ian Borthwick (IET Standards), is different in that, as well as covering the how to basics, it attempts to take…
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RightsLink® is the easy-to-use automated permissions clearing system developed by the Copyright Clearance Center to enable customers to clear permissions swiftly and easily — at any time, from anywhere in the world. As featured in a previous issue of Publishing News Wiley implemented RightsLink® for all our journals back in November 2009, and we have recently also…
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Kris Kleimann
Vice President & Director, Global Rights, Licensing,& Permissions
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1. Ed, thanks for taking the time to talk to Wiley-Blackwell Publishing News. First of all, could you introduce the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), its origins, objectives, and activities? Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) is a global rights broker for millions of books, journals, newspapers, magazines, images, blogs, and ebooks. We were founded in 1978 as…
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David Nicholson
Vice President & Journals Publishing Director
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Piracy and subscription fraud pose significant challenges to the publishing industry, especially in the digital world, where the illegitimate use of copyrighted materials is pervasive. One-off illegitimate copies of copyrighted material can be found all over the internet, but the greatest challenge comes from systematic piracy facilitated by file-sharing sites. These sites come in a…
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http://www.publishers.org/ 1. Allan and John, can you tell our readers about the main activities of the AAP and particularly its Professional/Scholarly Publishing division? JT: Ill be happy to lead off with information about the PSP division. We have a little over 130 members. What is interesting in the AAP context is the diversity of the…
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David Nicholson
Vice President & Journals Publishing Director
Societies Research
Authors quite rightly expect their published work to be as widely read, cited and accessible to potential readers as possible. In addition to the wide range of publishing developments and marketing activities undertaken to this end, Wileys Permissions Department routinely clears many thousands of requests for the re-use of published works every month. As…