Brianna L Schofield and Jennifer M Urban, Berkeley Digital Library Copyright Project Report: Takedown and Today’s Academic Digital Library, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No 2694731 (November 2015), available at SSRN. A recent push to provide increased access to research, scholarship, and archival materials, as well as a desire to provide greater visibility to faculty and institutional work, have driven more and more academic libraries to create online repositories. These repositories have successfully generated greater visibility for scholarly work and archival collections and greatly enhanced access to these materials for researchers. Greater visibility and access, however, also bring greater potential for requests that libraries takedown materials either because of intellectual property rights claims or other claims, such as privacy … (more)
[Kristina Niedringhaus, JOTWELL, 21 March]
First posted 2016-03-21 17:32:49
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