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Information Access Alliance Releases White Paper and Launches Website
The Information Access Alliance, a coalition of six leading library organizations in North America, has published a white paper that examines the impact of mergers among scholarly and legal publishers...
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Letter to Lamar S. Smith re: Piracy Deterrence and Education Act of 2003 (Jul. 24, 2003)
Letter from library associations expressing concern with certain provisions of H.R. 2517, the "Piracy Deterrence and Education Act of 2003." lt-smith-piracy-deterrence-24jul03.pdf
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Information Access Alliance Letter to Commission of European Communities Regarding Cinven and Candover Purchase of BertelsmannSpringer
Bertelsmann AG recently announced its intent to sell BertelsmannSpringer, a publisher of scientific, technical, and medical (STM) journals, to Cinven and Candover, a partnership of UK-based private equity firms. We...
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SPEC Kit 274: Data Mining and Data Warehousing (July 2003)
A scanned version of SPEC Kit 274 is available full view through HathiTrust. View document here »
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Letter to Zoe Lofgren re: Support for the Public Domain Enhancement Act (Jun. 24, 2003)
lt-pub-domain-enhance-act-24jun03.pdf
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Letter to Robert F. Bennett re: support from the Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies for the National Agricultural Library (NAL) (Jun. 19, 2003)
Letter from library associations requesting increased support from the Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies for the National Agricultural Library (NAL). nal-lt-19jun03.pdf
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Hidden Collections, Scholarly Barriers: Creating Access To Unprocessed Special Collections Materials Innorth America’s Research Libraries
On behalf of the ARL Task Force on Special Collections, UIUC's Barbara Jones prepared this white paper that lays out the problem, the opportunities, and some recommendations for how ourcommunities...
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Dastar Corporation, Petitioner v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Et al.
In this case, we are asked to decide whether ß43(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U. S. C. ß1125(a), prevents the unaccredited copying of a work, and if so, whether...
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Publisher Mergers: A Consumer-Based Approach to Antitrust Analysis
In this paper, the Information Access Alliance (Alliance) describes the issues that have emerged as the industry has become increasingly concentrated and advocates for a new standard of antitrust review...
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Libraries Urge Justice Department to Block Cinven and Candover Purchase of BertelsmannSpringer
The Information Access Alliance, a group of six library organizations, is urging the U.S. Department of Justice to block Cinven and Candover's proposed purchase of BertelsmannSpringer. The Alliance is concerned...
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