The European research library network LIBER has submitted its response to the European Commission consultation on copyright rules
Emily Goodhand examines the implications of recent copyright announcements and news, and speculates on whether a happy medium in digital copyright will ever truly be achieved
Sian Harris finds out why a treaty on intellectual property and digital rights is causing widespread protests
A new European agreement is tackling the challenge of how to revive books and journals that predate the internet without damaging the rights of authors and publishers, write Carlo Scollo Lavizzari and André Myburgh, attorneys-at-law at Lenz Caemmerer
The European Publishers Council, the British Library and JISC are among the organisations that have welcomed the recommendations made to the UK Government by the Hargreaves Review into intellectual property
A new report by FreePint Research into managing copyright has concluded that information managers have been successful in communicating about copyright risk and raising awareness amongst workers about their role in managing it
European Commission takes on European's Publisher Council's copyright ideas
Millions of "orphan works" cannot be accessed online because their rights holders cannot be found
Online publishers are losing significant revenue and, in many cases, the rights to their material, because of the way they implement 'article tools' on their web pages
The Association of American Publishers has welcomed US legislation that aims to safeguard the rights of authors and publishers of copyrighted, peer-reviewed scientific journal articles.
Wayne Sime discusses his hopes for the future of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
From bypassing aggregators to the influx of new university presses, the world of library-based publishing is changing fast, reports Rebecca Pool
Vivek Mehra explains how the English language is dominating global communication and changing school structure
Chris Smith
Chris Smith explains why they matter, and how publishers and universities can benefit
Rossana Morriello
Rossana Morriello assesses the ways in which librarians are supporting research in Italy
Nandita Quaderi – editor-in-chief of the Web of Science – champions objectivity, selectivity, and data integrity
This article was jointly written by Andrea Chiarelli (pictured), Juliane Kant and Birgit Schmidt on behalf of Knowledge Exchange. Andrea Chiarelli is a consultant at Research Consulting. Juliane Kant is partner representative for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) in Knowledge Exchange. Birgit Schmidt is head of knowledge commons at Göttingen State and University Library.
Active engagement and collaboration are needed to deliver the promise of preprints, writes Andrea Chiarelli
