Considerations on Policies of University Digital Collections

Koulouris, A. and Kapidakis, S. (2004) Considerations on Policies of University Digital Collections. In Proceedings 6th Russian Conference on Digital Libraries (RCDL 2004), pp. 159-168, Pushchino (RU).

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Abstract

We examine the factors (creation type of the material, acquisition method, copyright ownership etc.) and the access and reproduction policies of the digital collections of ten leading university digital libraries. We classify the policies according to the factors and analyze their relation, showing how the acquisition method and the copyright ownership define the access and reproduction policies for the digital collections. We conclude with rules about which factors lead to specific policies. For example, when the library has the copyright of the material, the reproduction for private use is provided usually free with a credit to the source or otherwise mostly under fair use provisions and the commercial reproduction needs written permission from and fees paid to the library. Finally, we extract the common practice on access and reproduction policies and we map the conventional to digital policies.

Keywords:	Factors of policies, Acquisition method, Creation type of the content, Copyright ownership, Content policies, Access, Reproduction, Digital libraries, Digital collections, Policy mapping, Conventional policies, Digital policies
Subjects:	E. Publishing and legal issues. > EB. Printing, electronic publishing, broadcasting. D. Libraries as physical collections. > DD. Academic libraries. B. Information use and sociology of information. > BH. Information needs and information requirements analysis. J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum. > JJ. Document delivery. E. Publishing and legal issues. > ED. Intellectual property: author's rights, ownership, copyright, copyleft. J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum. > JK. Interlibrary loans. L. Information technology and library technology. > LI. Authentication, and access control. I. Information treatment for information services > IB. Content analysis (A and I, class.) J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum. > JA. Acquisitions. C. Users, literacy and reading. > CA. Use studies. B. Information use and sociology of information. > BF. Information policy J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum. > JG. Digitization. B. Information use and sociology of information. > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion.
ID Code:	7396
Deposited By:	Koulouris, Alexandros / N.; Dr.
Deposited On:	10 October 2006
Alternative Locations:	http://dlib.ionio.gr/pubs/rcdl2004_koulouris.pdf, http://rcdl.ru//papers/2004/paper10.pdf
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