10:00 Wednesday 20 July – 16:00 Thursday 21 July 2011 at 115 New Cavendish Street, University of Westminster
This two day workshop leads participants to seek maximum value from online resources and activities. It does this by addressing the range of strategic and tactical considerations that determine effectiveness in this area-including an understanding of how the internet is evolving; the role of search engine optimisation; the importance of social networks; acknowledgement of relevant smart technologies. The course is provided by JISC Netskills and supported by JISC through the Strategic Content Alliance.
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A new Strategic Content Alliance/Ithaka S+R report examines funding practices to provide insight on post-grant sustainability for digital resources
Ithaka S+R, funded by the JISC-led Strategic Content Alliance (SCA), released today Funding for Sustainability: How Funders’ Practices Influence the Future of Digital Resources. This report, written by Nancy L Maron and Matthew Loy, provides funders of digital resources and their grantees with an overview of current funding practices and highlights areas for potential improvement in defining and planning for post-grant sustainability.
Download the full report: Funding for Sustainability: How Funders’ Practices Influence the Future of Digital Resources (June 2011)
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Yesterday the Hargreaves Review of IP, charged with independently reviewing how the Intellectual Property (IP) framework supports growth and innovation (http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ipreview-finalreport.pdf), reported its recommendations.
The fundamental aim of the consultation was to identify barriers to growth within the IP framework, which consists of the rules and regulations covering how IP is created, used and protected in this country. Using evidence based responses, it has aimed create a picture of how well the current IP system serves to help promote entrepreneurialism, economic growth, social and commercial innovation.
The Strategic Content Alliance welcomes the recommendations of review in terms of the specific exceptions outlined as well as the commitment to furthering easy, widespread access to information and resources, putting technology and information management at the heart of research and education. It is hoped that if the recommendations are implemented, they will allow for and encourage exploitation, re-use of digital content as well as supporting research and learning.
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Naomi Korn, the Strategic Content Alliance’s IPR consultant, writes:
A judicial review of the measures to tackle online copyright infringement within the Digital Economy Act, which has been brought by BT and Talk Talk, has just ruled in favour of the Government. BT and Talk Talk claimed that the measures in the Digital Economy Act to cut the internet services of users who allegedly download illegal content such as music, films and books, were not compliant with EU law nor were proportionate. This argument was rejected by the judge, Mr Justice Kenneth Parke, who upheld the principle of the measures within the Act to tackle the unlawful downloading of copyright material.
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Confused by copyright? In the dark about IPR?
A new elearning module from the Strategic Content Alliance is to help update people dealing with intellectual property rights in universities, colleges, museums, libraries and other public bodies.
Access the module at http://www.web2rights.com/SCAIPRModule
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Maximising online resource effectiveness is a new section on the SCA blog dedicated to reports, guides and case studies that summarise the key principles in this increasingly important area and present a condensed version of the highly successful series of workshops commissioned by the Strategic Content Alliance and undertaken by JISC Netskills in 2010.
Find out more at Maximising online resource effectiveness
In response to the activities of certain publishers in changing their policies to retrospectively restrict the depositing of authors’ manuscripts in local, institutional or subject-based repositories, JISC has published the following statement:
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Managing Orphan Works is a new section of the Strategic Content Alliance blog dedicated to the publications and tools the Alliance had produced to explain and offer practical advice on a sometimes very complex issue. Managing Orphan Works includes research, briefing papers, template notices and posters, along with a short explanation of how they can be used within your organisation.
According to HM Treasury/BIS’s document Plan for Growth, published today, the UK government is to consider simplifying payments for copyright materials and freeing up orphan works. The relevant sections are:
In response to the Hargreaves recommendations, due in April 2011, the Government will consider simplifying payments for copyright materials and freeing up orphan works. The Government commits to no further broad reviews of the IP rights regime during the lifetime of this Parliament.
2.225 The review of Intellectual Property and Growth, led by Ian Hargreaves, is examining how the UK’s intellectual property framework can further promote entrepreneurialism, economic growth and social and commercial innovation. The review’s recommendations are expected to include measures to modernise the system of copyright licensing to minimise the transaction costs that inhibit innovation and growth, and a proposal to enable access to orphan works. The Government will consider these proposals carefully and will implement as soon as practicable those which will demonstrably contribute to future growth. A commitment to no further broad reviews gives investors certainty over investment. The Government will also set out a five-year international approach to intellectual property.
The full document can be accessed at: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/ukecon_growth_index.htm
JISC has commented on the European Commission’s draft Key Principles on the Digitisation and Making Available of Out-of-Commerce Works, ahead of a ’stakeholder dialogue’ meeting on March 25.
The substantive points are below, marked in italic, and the comments can be read in full: JISC’s comments on draft Key Principles on the Digitisation and Making Available of Out-of-Commerce Works
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