ALCTS Network News v5n15 (March 11, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v5n15 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 5, Number 15 March 11, 1993 In this issue STRATEGIES FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIBRARY COLLECTIONS ALCTS STAFF CHANGES OKERSON TALK SPOTLIGHTS "PROPRIETARY OBSTACLES" FACING ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING OCLC EXTENDS FIRSTSEARCH, EPIC, AND CURRENT CLINICAL TRIALS HOURS ************************************************************************* STRATEGIES FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIBRARY COLLECTIONS A regional institute entitled "Preservation Strategies in Collection Management" will be held May 3-4, 1993 at the Conference Center at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN. The institute is sponsored by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, a division of the American Library Association. The institute is planned for librarians from institutions with little or no formal preservation program who have interest in and/or responsibility for preserving the collection. The institute will equip those involved in collection management with the needed skills and perspectives to set preservation priorities, work with available resources and establish plans that are appropriate to the collection(s) at risk within their institutions. Moderated panel discussions will draw together common concerns, while small break-out sessions will provide practical advice. Speakers include Dwight Burlingame, Indiana University Center of Philanthropy, Indianapolis, IN; Kathryn De Graff, DePaul University Library, Chicago, IL; Don Etherington, Information Conservation Incorporated (ICI), Greensboro, NC; Maureen Gleason, University Libraries of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; Martha Hanson, Syracuse University Library, NY; Jennifer Hehman, Herron Art Library (IUPUI), Indianapolis, IN; Sophia Jordan, University Libraries of Notre Dame; Miriam Kahn, MBK Consulting, Columbus, OH; Robert Miller, University Libraries of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; Carla Montori, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Marta O'Neill, Indiana Commission on Public Records, Indianapolis, IN; Lorraine Olley, Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington, IN; Dina Schoomaker, Oberlin College Library, OH; and Rebecca Stuhr-Rommerin, Burling Library, Grinnell College, IA. Fees for the Institute are $135 for ALCTS members, $170 for ALA personal members, and $205 for non-members. The registration fee includes instructional materials, refreshment breaks and lunch on Tuesday. To obtain further information, contact Yvonne A. McLean, ALCTS, at: U21183@UICVM.BITNET To get the file containing the brochure text for the "Preservation Strategies in Collection Management" Institute, do one of the following: tell listserv@uicvm send PRESISS BROCHURE or send a note to LISTSERV@UICVM.UIC.EDU or LISTSERV@UICVM.BITNET with the text: SEND PRESISS BROCHURE ************************************************************************* ALCTS STAFF CHANGES AN2, Volume 5, Number 7, issued February 5, 1993, carried a list of ALCTS staff responsibilities, along with e-mail addresses. Gretchen VanNatta, who has been serving as Interim Deputy Executive Director of ALCTS, is leaving at the end of this week to begin a position as Training Specialist, Evangelical Helth Systems. We appreciate all of Gretchen's efforts in assisting us, particularly with this spring's reginal institutes preparation, and wish her well in her new postion. In addition, Yvonne McLean has a new e-mail address, u21183@uicvm.uic.edu, and Beatrice Calvin and Marie Rochelle have been issued their own accounts, u20792@uicvm.uic.edu and u20754@uicvm.uic.edu, respectively. Inquiries for Gretchen will be handled by other ALCTS staff, with Marie Rochelle being the initial contact. She will refer your call to another staff member if appropriate. Staff member Phone extension Internet address* General Office/AN2 5035 U34261@uicvm.uic.edu Marie Rochelle 5035 U20754@uicvm.uic.edu Karen Muller 5031 U19466@uicvm.uic.edu Yvonne McLean 5032 U21183@uicvm.uic.edu Beatrice Calvin 5036 U20752@uicvm.uic.edu * The Bitnet version of these accounts is Unnnnn@uicvm.bitnet. ************************************************************************* OKERSON TALK SPOTLIGHTS "PROPRIETARY OBSTACLES" FACING ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING By Jeri Van Goethem and Richard Jasper Emerging technology will give us little choice but to provide better management of information ownership and thus provide better access, according to Ann Okerson, director of the Association for Research Libraries' Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing. Okerson addressed more than 150 librarians, vendors and publishers at the Midwinter Meeting of the ALCTS Electronic Publishing Discussion Group in Denver. Okerson pointed out that twentieth century society has a high respect for ownership and that existing copyright law assigns ownership to ideas. Copyright law and related questions of information ownership are at the heart of the "proprietary obstacles" coming to the fore as the result of electronic publishing. In the academic tradition, Okerson said, authors own the work they produce and are free to dispose of it in any fashion they choose, while publishers regulate the transmission of ownership. The language of transference now used for copyright assignment to journal publishers needs to be changed to deploy ownership in better fashion. Copyright laws were written to create an economic balance with money to support the publishing system, Okerson said, but the ratio is now out of balance. Libraries need to work with the language of copyright statements both to improve access and maintain a vital publication system for information sharing. Because electronic publishing is concerned with selling access instead of a product, we are seeing a move away from copyright law to licensing and contract law, Okerson said. As a result, the library owns nothing, fair use is diminished, and broad access is limited. Okerson suggested that there may be new shifts in the meaning of ownership, noting that academic institutions generally view themselves as owning the right to institutionally funded research. Likewise, she referred to the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) "Model Copyright" document, which advocates universities' retaining ownership rights to scholarly information, and to another proposal which would allow publishers the first printing rights but retain second party rights and all rights to electronic distribution. Still, Okerson noted, these models may result in different types of problems. For example, faculty retention of copyright raises logistical problems for coordinated transference of the right to copy to secondary parties. Likewise, even though some Bitnet/Internet-distributed publications state that the article may be freely share distributed so long as acknowledgment is cited, there is concern that such work not move into the hands of for profit publishers. Okerson suggested that in some cases copyright may be needed to protect the right to give the work away. Okerson ended her talk by indicating that new models and alternatives for information ownership will have to be tried and by suggesting that publishers will no longer be able to cling to copyright in an age of downloading and broad sharing of information. The discussion following up Okerson's talk ranged from questions about archiving electronic information and defining an "authoritative version" for electronic texts to concerns that the Copyright Clearance Center will not be able to handle the revenue distribution that some are suggesting. Peter Graham, Rutgers University, described a method for date stamping and encrypting text to confirm the authoritative version. Also discussed at the Denver meeting were tentative plans for establishing a moderated electronic newsletter for Discussion Group participants, as well as efforts to seek co-sponsorship of EPDG by other divisions of ALA, including the Association for Colleges & Research Libraries and the Library Information Technology Association. The Discussion Group will meet again during the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans this June. Various topics are being considered and further suggestions, as well as nominations for the position of vice-chair/chair-elect, would be welcomed. Please send topic suggestions and nominations to: Richard P. Jasper, Chair; ALCTS Electronic Publishing Discussion Group; Acquisitions Department; Emory University General Libraries; Atlanta, GA 30322-2870; BITNET: LIBRPJ@EMUVM1; Phone: (404) 727-0122; FAX: (404) 727-0053. ************************************************************************* OCLC EXTENDS FIRSTSEARCH, EPIC, AND CURRENT CLINICAL TRIALS HOURS The FirstSearch Catalog and the EPIC service, OCLC's online reference services, and the _Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials_ are now available Sunday through Friday until midnight and on Saturday until 8 p.m. on both the OCLC Network and the Internet. The new hours are: Monday-Friday 6 a.m.-midnight (Eastern Time) Saturday 8 a.m.-8 p.m. (Eastern Time) Sunday noon-midnight (Eastern Time) "We are responding to requests from users, especially U.S. West Coast users, to extend our hours, particularly on Sundays," said Tam Dalrymple, OCLC Reference Services. "Sunday evenings are among the busiest nights for academic libraries." Later this year, OCLC plans to make the systems available 24 hours a day. The FirstSearch Catalog is designed for library patrons, with an end-user interface that allows patrons to move easily through the online search process in just a few simple steps, without training or online searching experience. EPIC, a full-featured online reference system that provides subject access, and keyword and Boolean searching to a variety of databases, is used mostly by librarians and experienced searchers. The _Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials_ is a peer-reviewed medical journal, edited by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and distributed electronically by OCLC. ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ALCTS NETWORK NEWS (ISSN 1056-6694) is published irregularly by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, a division of the American Library Association. Editorial offices: ALCTS, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; Liz Bishoff, President; Karen Muller, Executive Director. Editor: Karen Muller (u34261@uicvm); Editorial Advisory Board: Liz Bishoff, Jennifer Younger, Arnold Hirshon; Editorial Assistance: Alex Bloss. ALCTS NETWORK NEWS is available free of charge and is available only in electronic form. Opinions expressed in the articles are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the division. 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