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What Every Chemist Should Know About Patents, 3rd Edition, 2002 (pdf) & 2006 Supplement (pdf)
By the ACS Committee on Patents & Related Matters

Posted on Liblicense-L, 10 March 2008.
OXFORD, UK, MONDAY, 10 MARCH 2008 1700GMT.

The debate on the rights that authors have (or indeed it is claimed inaccurately, do not have) over their published works continues to rage, and much coverage has been given to purportedly restrictive practices or policies, when in fact they do not exist for the majority of publishers. The most recent examples surround the vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard for university ownership and distribution of research papers (February 2008). One advocate of the Harvard policy claims that this step was taken because “the scholarly publishing system has become far more restrictive than it need be [… m]any publishers will not even allow scholars to use and distribute their own work.” (See Harvard to collect, disseminate scholarly articles for faculty, from the Harvard University Gazette).

This is not only an inaccurate perception of the role of publishers and copyright, but also means that advocating authors to modify existing journal publishing agreements with “copyright addenda” is simply a call for needless bureaucracy.

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White Paper by Leading Copyright Scholar Helps Grantees Prepare for April Start of NIH Requirement

Washington, DC and Cambridge, MA — February 29, 2008 — SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), Science Commons, and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) have jointly released a white paper to help university and medical school administrators ensure their institutions comply with public access requirements that are soon to be a condition of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding.

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The Lane Medical Library offers a broad array of workshops on campus. Users outside the Medical School are welcome to attend. Workshops that will be held in March include: EndNote, Advanced SQL Querying of Bionformatics Databases, Advanced Google: Services, Tools and Search Techniques, and PubMed: Basic to Advanced Techniques so You Don’t Miss Key Research.

Earlier this month, I participated in a class that Yannick taught on patent searching. This WebEx session was archived and is available for viewing. Handouts and other materials are available for many previously offered sessions.

Chuck Bailey in the February 2008 issue of Current Cites wrote this summary about a mandate approved recently at Harvard:

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Relationships matter. Professional relationships are key to your professional success. LinkedIn’s mission is to help you be more effective in your daily work and open doors to opportunities using the professional relationships you already have.

LinkedIn is an online network of more than 19 million experienced professionals from around the world, representing 150 industries. LinkedIn is free to join.

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If you are preparing for an academic career, you will find the “Tomorrows-professor” listserv to be a useful resource. It is a fully-moderated list covering a variety of topics. All posts to tomorrows-professor are done by the list owner, Richard M. Reis, Ph.D. Archived topics are posted on the archives page.

Tomorrow’s professor: preparing for academic careers in science and engineering / Richard M. Reis; IEEE Education Society, sponsor. New York: IEEE Press, ©1997. xix, 416 p.: ill.
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The Stanford News Digest is a daily compilation of citations (including URLs) to news articles about Stanford University. The Digest is produced by the Stanford News Service. Join this listserv as a way to keep up-to-date on campus news.

The Research Libraries Cooperative Program (RLCP) agreement allows eligible users at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and UT Austin to obtain materials that are needed to support teaching, learning, research, and other University-related work that are not available at their home institution.

Eligible Users: Faculty (current and emeritus), academic or professional staff, and currently registered graduate students. Undergraduate students and visiting scholars are not eligible for RLCP privileges. Most postdoctoral students are also eligible for RLCP privileges.

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RecycleMania is a friendly competition among college and university recycling programs in the United States that provides the campus community with a fun, proactive activity in waste reduction. Over a 10-week period, campuses compete in different contests to see which institution can collect the largest amount of recyclables per capita, the largest amount of total recyclables, the least amount of trash per capita, or have the highest recycling rate.

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