NOTES FROM RAMSEY LIBRARY ; 2011-11

FEATURED RESOURCE
Well, it had to happen and if you haven’t anticipated it, you should have! It’s NOTES’ first, real COPYRIGHT issue! It’s a shame NOTES couldn’t get itself together for World Intellectual Property Day (April 26), but sometimes the world just doesn’t cooperate. Anyway, though not strictly the library’s, today’s featured resource in the university’s new intellectual property web site just published on the new campus website located under the Office of the University General Council in the Administration section. Check out convenient links to UNC Asheville policies and forms on the main Intellectual Property/Copyright page. Then check out links to information about U.S. copyright law, tutorials and guides, digital media, free or low cost permissions, and useful sites on theIntellectual Property Information page. And last but certainly not least, NOTES hopes that many of you will take the opportunity to link to the Copyright Information for Students page which presents those connections likely to be of most interest to our students (including dire warnings and a summary of civil and criminal penalties for violation of copyright laws).
RECENT COPYRIGHT NEWS OF NOTE

What You Don’t Know About Copyright but Should, By Jennifer Howard
In a maze of rights confusion, Nancy Sims, copyright-program librarian at the University of Minnesota, guides colleges to safety
A Professor Takes His Rights Fight to the Supreme Court, By Marc Parry
Lawrence Golan, music teacher and conductor, has a case whose outcome could affect access to many books and films, as well as to some composers’ scores.
2 Universities Under the Legal Gun (includes update on Cambridge University Press et al. v. Patton et al. (Georgia State University) that will like have seminal impact on the copying of and electronic access to copyrighted materials in the classroom and library).
What’s at Stake in the Georgia State Copyright Case
Experts in scholarly communications comment on what the case may mean for the use of reproduced copyrighted material in the classroom.
Out of Fear, Institutions Lock Millions of Books and Images Away from Scholars, By Marc Parry
Confronted with the murky copyright status of many works, academic archives are playing it safe and limiting online access to scholars.
Pushing Back Against Legal Threats by Putting Fair Use Forward, By Jeffrey R. Young
Two professors at American University fight against “copywrongs” with common-sense guides to the law.
QuickWire: Parties in Google Books Settlement Get More Time

OTHER RECENT NEWS OF NOTE
Students Say Tablets Will Transform College, Though Most Don’t Own Tablets
Nearly half said they expected the devices to replace textbooks within the next five years.
Textbooks Go the iTunes Route, but Buying by Chapters May Not Save Students Money, By Ben Wieder
Publishers are now giving students the option to buy e-textbooks by the chapter. Will it do for academic publishing what iTunes did for the music industry?
Academics, in New Move, Begin to Work With Wikipedia
The Association for Psychological Science uses its prestige-and some new software-to motivate scholars to help fix inaccuracies in the everyone-can-edit encyclopedia.
U. of Chicago Students Hope to Revolutionize Course Packs
Two students are developing a cheaper, online alternative to printed course materials that they want to bring to campuses nationwide
When You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover, By Ann Kirschner
E-readers have changed the packaging picture.
Leading Economics Journals Drop ‘Double Blind’ Peer Review