Welcome: AAP/PSP Issues

 
  • Access to information
    Technological and public policy matters affecting the ability of members of the general public to obtain information or copies of records or other documentary materials; includes freedom of information, open access, government regulation (NIH), privacy, secrecy, censorship, and security issues.

    (A,H)

    See "How to Access Medical Information" memo and "Copyright and Public Access to Federally- Funded Scientific Research: The Erroneous Premise of Open-Access Advocates and H.R. 2613" memo at the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) website.


    See also Publisher issues regarding proposed NIH policy on Open Access.


    (___,H)

  • Archiving
    Technological and public policy matters relating to the collection, storage, preservation, and retrieval of documents and publications of all kinds, in various media, at public and private archives and other repositories for such materials.

    (A,H)

  • Censorship
    Legal, government regulation, or other policy restrictions, or potential for limitations, imposed by governments and other authorities on the publication or other dissemination of creative expression or other forms of speech and information through any media, many of which may implicate First Amendment rights or values.

    (A,H)

    See OFAC memo at the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) website

    And, see:AAP/AAUP suit Against Treasury Department --


    All OFAC litigation materials, including complaint; and All media coverage.

  • Copyright
    The legal intellectual property rights and protections afforded to authors and other creators of works of original expression under the U. S. Constitution, together with the exemptions and limitations applicable to such rights and protections.

    See Copyright Primer at: http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/cprim er. ©Primer: An Online Interactive Introduction. (Updated regularly.) Provides an overview of the underlying principles behind copyright in the United States and discusses the parameters of use and access of copyrighted material. Center for Intellectual Property, University of Maryland University College, 2002.

    (A,H)

    See "Copyright and Public Access to Federally- Funded Scientific Research: The Erroneous Premise of Open-Access Advocates and H.R. 2613" memo at the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) website

  • Cybercrime
    Technological and public policy issues relating to the treatment of speech, conduct or other activities that are considered or proposed to be made unlawful in their occurrence on the Internet, including new matters such as cyber squatting and spamming, as well as more traditional matters such as fraud, identify theft and piracy.

    (A,H)

  • Database Protection
    Legal rights and protections afforded to the providers of collections of discrete items of information (regardless of media format), which may be used and distributed in their entirety or through extraction of portions; includes technological means of providing such protection.

    (A,H)

  • Digital Rights Management
    Technological, economic, legal, administrative and public policy issues associated with systems that are designed to facilitate digital content commerce by enabling the identification of content in digital formats, its ownership, and the terms and conditions for its use, in direct or indirect association with the content itself.

    (A,H)

    See AAP White Paper "What Consumers Want in Digital Rights Management (DRM)" of other related documents at the AAP website.

  • Distance Education - Distance Learning
    Copyright and other public policy issues associated with the delivery, or provision of access to, mediated instruction to students who are separated from their instructor by time and/or space, including through the use of the Internet or other digital networks or technologies.

    (A,H)

  • Document Delivery
    Technological, legal, economic, administrative and public policy issues associated with the provision by libraries and other entities of services to fulfill requests for the delivery of copies of research materials and other documents.

    (A,H)

  • Domain Names
    Technological, legal, economic, administrative and public policy issues regarding textual names that are translated into Internet Protocol (IP) addresses designating particular servers through which the domain name holder communicates and may be contacted online; they are assigned based on the type of organization or site to be identified by the name, and are generally differentiated by the three-letter suffix provided at the end of the URL.

    (A,H)

  • E-Commerce
    Public policy issues concerning the buying and selling of products and services by businesses and consumers over the Internet, typically distinguishing among separate categories of business-to-business (B2B), business-to-consumer (B2C), and consumer-to-consumer (C2C) transactions.

    (A,H)

  • Fair Use
    Matters concerning an exercise of any exclusive right of copyright with respect to a copyrighted work which, despite the absence of permission from or payment to the copyright owner, is not considered an infringement of that right under copyright law, based upon the application of four statutory criteria through which the use is evaluated in the context of the particular facts and circumstances in which it occurs.

    (A,H)

  • Government Competition
    Public policies or government regulation concerning circumstances in which government agencies or personnel make access available to the public or any segment of the public or provide any enhanced information products or services that can substitute for products or services provided commercially by private sector entities or persons.

    See "Copyright and Public Access to Federally- Funded Scientific Research: The Erroneous Premise of Open-Access Advocates and H.R. 2613" memo at the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) website

    See also Publisher issues regarding proposed NIH policy. (A,H)

  • Information Technology
    Technological and public policy issues arising in connection with technologies used to create, disseminate, store, use, or transform information, including computers, software, telecommunications products and services, Internet and online services, systems integration, and related professional services.

    (A,H)

  • Interlibrary Loan
    The sharing of publications, information products, or material between libraries as an integral element in the provision of library services, where one library requests the returnable or non-returnable provision of loans or copies of materials from another library to fill the informational needs of its users that cannot be met through its local collection resources.

    (A,H)

  • International
    Public policy matters within the scope of the issues categories involving nations other than or in addition to the United States, including multilateral treaties and agreements.

    (A,H)

    See OFAC memo at the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) website

  • Legislation (Pending, Enacted)
    Both existing and proposed federal or state legislation and related Congressional or state legislative body activities.

    See: Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet -http://thomas.loc.gov.

    (A,H)

    See "Copyright and Public Access to Federally- Funded Scientific Research: The Erroneous Premise of Open-Access Advocates and H.R. 2613" memo at the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) website

  • Licensing
    Contractual authorizations and/or restrictions regarding the provision of access to, or use, distribution, performance, modification, or reproduction of information or related rights, including those associated with copyrighted works.

    (A,H)

  • Postal
    Postal rates, classifications, services, and other public policy matters concerning the delivery of mailed items by the U.S. Postal Service.

    (A,H)

  • Privacy
    Technological and public policy matters concerning governmental, corporate and other intrusions into the personal affairs of individuals or the proprietary affairs of non- government entities, as well as the ability of individuals to control the collection, content, disclosure and use of information that is personally-identifiable to them; also concerns surveillance, monitoring and other invasive practices in connection with communications, information or activities occurring through telecommunications or other means.

    (A,H)

  • Public Domain
    Legal and other public policy matters concerning the sphere of knowledge or information which, by virtue of its character as being publicly available and/or lacking in patent, copyright, or other intellectual property protections or claim of ownership, is considered to be unencumbered and 'common' to all, e.g., government information.
    (H)

  • Publishing - General
    Technological and public policy issues associated with enterprises engaged in the authorship or purposeful dissemination of content (including software) by print, electronic or other means, particularly in connection with books, journals and other textual materials.

    (A,H)


    See additional policy papers such as the OFAC memo at the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) website

  • Sovereign Immunity
    Public policy and legal issues arising from the state's immunity from liabiliy or prosecution for activities which would otherwise give rise to a cause of action but for the state's being engaged in a governmental function.

    (_, H)

  • Taxation
    Economic and public policy issues associated with governmental levies of financial charges in connection with certain transactions in goods or services, or with other activities, including issues concerning sales taxes related to online or e-commerce, value-added taxes, etc.

    (A,H)

  • Technological Safeguards/Circumvention
    Technological and public policy issues concerning the use of technological measures by copyright owners and others who hold or are responsible for administering proprietary rights in content or information to control access to or use of such content or information, and matters concerning the defeat of such measures (such as encryption, scrambling, etc.), with particular emphasis on related provisions of the WIPO treaties and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA").

    (A,H)

  • Treaties / International Agreements
    Legal and other public policy matters concerning existing or proposed agreements between or among nations in which the signatory nations agree to conform certain types of activities, conduct or related rules and laws to an accepted common set of principles, standards or arrangements.

    (A,H)

  • Welcome


    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.

    2005 and 2006 have been particularly active, with open access and government regulation issues commanding our attention, particularly the how the NIH policy and proposed Federal research access legislation issues affect scientific and government information publishing. The Glossary database is by searchable by Issue categories, (copyright, distance education, archiving) and/or by subject or Entity categories, (libraries, associations, legislation). A search specifying "libraries" and "copyright", for example, would turn up 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 revised glossary terms reflecting current issue areas and added links directly to closely related websites. As designed, the Glossary is continuing to evolve and grow. PITF invites PSP members to suggest new entries or changes to existing ones. The Glossary is a valuable reference guide to the issues and the players in this confusing arena of public policy.

 

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