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The Public Issues Task Force has continued to update and improve the PSP Issues Glossary to connect today's issues facing PSP members and the environment in which we operate.
The PSP Issues Glossary, a reference guide for the perplexed, is available to PSP members through the PSP web site. It contains issues and buzzwords, and descriptive entries for organizations and entities that are "players" in the arena -- those who are important in the world of professional and scholarly publishing.
2007 and 2008 have been particularly active, with public or free access and government regulation issues commanding our attention, particularly the how the new mandatory compliance requirement of the NIH Public Access Policy and related issues affect scientific and government research and information publishing.
The Glossary database is by searchable by Issue categories, (e.g., copyright, access, archiving) and/or by subject or Entity categories, (e.g., libraries, associations, legislation). A search specifying "libraries" and "copyright", for example, would turn up a collection of links to and descriptive entries for all library organizations that have been actively involved in the public debate on copyright. A simpler search based simply on "WIPO" would provide a description of the treaty. Each entry also contains links to organizational home pages, for further reference.
Where helpful, PITF has updated and revised glossary terms reflecting current issue areas, added new entities and players in the policy arena, and added links that lead directly to closely related websites. As designed, the Glossary is continuing to evolve and grow.
PITF encourages PSP members to suggest new entries or changes to existing ones. The Glossary is dynamic and responsive to the changes that influence our vocation. It is a valuable reference guide to the issues and the players in this confusing arena of public policy.
F. Hill Slowinski
Editor, PSP Issues Glossary
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