Copyright and Digital Rights Management

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• Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, Copyright Advisory Office (resources on copyright, fair use, libraries and copyright, publication agreements, permissions, the Google Books settlement, and more)

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• Copyright and Preservation: a Serious Problem in Need of a Thoughtful Solution (CLIR Report, by Robert L. Oakley, 1990)

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• Copyright Implications of Digital Archives (presentation by Peter B. Hirtle at the AALL Annual Meeting, 2006)

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• Copyright Issues Relevant to the Creation of a Digital Archive: a Preliminary Assessment (CLIR Report, by June M. Besek, 2003)

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• Copyright Renewal Database (Stanford database that makes searchable the copyright renewal records received by the U.S. Copyright Office between 1950 and 1993 for books published in the U.S. between 1923 and 1963.)

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• Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the U.S. (Cornell Copyright Information Center, revision of chart first published by Peter B. Hirtle)

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• Creative Commons (nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works)

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• Digital Millennium Copyright Act

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• Duration of Copyright Act: Provisions of the Law Dealing with the Length of Copyright Protection (U.S. Copyright Office, 2004)

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• Green Paper: Copyright in the Knowledge Economy (European Commission, July 2008)

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• How Can I Tell Whether a Copyright was Renewed? (U. Penn., Online Books Page)

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• International Study on the Impact of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation (Joint report of JISC, NDIIPP, the OAK Law Project and the SURFfoundation July 2008)

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• Library Digitization Projects and Copyright (LLRX.com article by Mary Minow, 2002)

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• Report on Digital Preservation, Orphan Works, and Out of Print Works – European Digital Library Initiative, High Level Expert Group, Copyright Subgroup (report approved 18 April 2007)

  • Model Agreement for a License on Digitisation of Out of Print Works

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• Report on Orphan Works (Report of the Register of Copyrights, 2006)

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• Section 108 Study Group (convened by Library of Congress)

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• SHERPA RoMEO (publisher copyright policies)

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• U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress

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• U.S. Copyright Search (“Search for copyright information about books, music, and other registered works.”)

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• When U.S. Works Pass Into the Public Domain (by Lolly Gasaway)

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Digital Preservation Resources

 

Standards and Guidelines

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• Preservation at GPO – “information about the preservation of Government information, within scope of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). Here you’ll find useful information pertaining to policies, guidance, and services that supports the work of Federal depository libraries.”
• Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative – “a collaborative effort by federal agencies formed as a group in 2007 to define common guidelines, methods, and practices to digitize historical content in a sustainable manner”
• METS (Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard) – Structure for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library

  • NISO, A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections (3rd ed., Dec. 2007)

  • PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, v2.0 (March 2008)
    • Understanding Premis (Library of Congress 2/1/2009)

  • Reference model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS), Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems, 2002. CCSDS 650.0-B-1 Blue Book

  • The OAIS Reference Model: An Introduction  (Michael Day, Reference Models Meeting, 25 January 2006)

  • Scanning Standards (University of North Texas Libraries) LC / OCLC / RLG / CRL

  • Best Practices for CONTENTdm and Other OAI-PMH Compliant Repositories: Creating Shareable Metadata (Oct. 2010)

  • Certification and Assessment of Digital Repositories (CRL)

  • Library of Congress

    • Digital Preservation Blog: The Signal

    • Digital Preservation Newsletter

    • Recommended Format Specifications

  • National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) – a collaborative initiative of the Library of Congress.

  • Preserving Our Digital Heritage: the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program 2010 Report.

  • National Digital Stewardship Alliance. An initiative of the NDIIPP, NDSA is a collaborative effort among government agencies, educational institutions, non-profit organizations and businesses to preserve a distributed national digital collection for the benefit of citizens now and in the future.

  • OCLC Digital Collection Management

  • OCLC Digital Archive

  • The Open Archival Information System Reference Model: Introductory Guide (2004)

  • RLG Best Practice Guidelines for Encoded Archival Description (2002)

  • Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities; an RLG-OCLC Report (2002)

  • Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification: Criteria and Checklist (TRAC) (version 1.0, Feb. 2007)

  • State Archiving in the Digital Era (October 2018)

 

Other U.S.

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• Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access, Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digital Information, Final Report (Feb. 2010)

• California Digital Library: University of California Digital Preservation Repository

• Chronopolis at the San Diego Super Computer Center (Digital Preservation Demonstration Project)

• Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)

• Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography, v. 2, 01/17/2011, by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

• Digital Library Federation

• Establishing Trustworthy Digital Repositories: a Discussion Guide based on the ISO Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Standard Reference Model, Jan. 19, 2011 — from the Interagency Science Working Group and NARA

• MetaArchive Cooperative, A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation – “Readers may use this guide to gain both a philosophical and practical understanding of the emerging field of distributed digital preservation, including how to establish or join a network.”

• HathiTrust, a collaboration of the 13 universities of the CIC and the University of California system to establish a repository for these universities’ digitized collections

• National Association of Secretaries of State, White Paper on Redaction Practives, Joint Report on Digital Archiving, Survey of Online State Services

• National Archives and Records Administration: Electronic Records Archives (ERA)

• Portico (“Working with libraries, publishers, and funders, we preserve e-journals, e-books, and other electronic scholarly content to ensure researchers and students will have access to it in the future.”)

 

International

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• CLOCKSS – “a joint venture between the world’s leading scholarly publishers and research libraries whose mission is to build a sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive with which to ensure the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly publications for the benefit of the greater global research community”

• Digital Curation Centre (UK)

• Digital Preservation Coalition (UK)

• Digital Preservation Policies Study – “aims to provide an outline model for digital preservation policies and to analyse the role that digital preservation can play in supporting and delivering key strategies for Higher and Further Education Institutions” (JISC, Oct. 2008)

• European Commission on Preservation and Access

• International Study on the Impact of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation (Joint report of JISC, NDIIPP, the OAK Law Project and the SURFfoundation, July 2008)

• Ithaka Case Studies in Sustainability Project

  • Sustaining Digital Resources: An On-the-Ground View of Projects Today (July 2009)

• Keeping Research Data Safe: a Cost Model and Guidance for UK Universities (JISC funded, April 2008)

• LOCKSS – “an international community initiative that provides libraries with digital preservation tools and support so that they can easily and inexpensively collect and preserve their own copies of authorized e-content”

• Make It Digital Guides (New Zealand)

• NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials (2002-2003)

• Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project (Australia)

  • Understanding Open Access in the Academic Environment: a Guide for Authors (June 2008)

• Open Planets Foundation — Follow-on organization to Planets: Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services, a four-year project co-funded by the European Union to address core digital preservation challenges

• Preserv2 — PReservation Eprint SERVices. Towards Repository Preservation Services, Final Report (JISC funded; July 2009). Preserv Bibliography on Digital Preservation

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Open Source Software for Digital Repositories

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• DSpace (developed by MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Labs)

• EPrints (developed at the University of South Hampton, UK)

• Fedora (developed by Cornell University Information Science and the University of Virginia Library)

• Greenstone (produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project)

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