[…] on their research needs. Students also need to know the questions to ask around copyright and fair use, ethics, and privacy. Are additional permissions needed to perform text and data mining and create visualizations of collections? Once data is uploaded […]
[…] publish a paper from an author that doesn’t exist or wasn’t involved in the project. In this context, both data privacy and reader anonymity are also important. Organizations could get hacked or users can be subject to digital surveillance. Social […]
[…] of the DMCA; breach of contract; tortious interference in a contractual relationship; unjust enrichment; unfair competition; violation of California Consumer Privacy Act; and negligence. Also sued were a confusing mishmash of for profit and non-profit related entities all using a […]
[…] to implement and refine their instance of Summon is aligned with his institution’s efforts to balance transparency with safeguarding patron privacy. Similarly, Micki Lubbers, Library Systems Manager at the University of Kansas Libraries, sees their ODI statement as one in […]
[…] or Nation State rights to control data whether within a nation or across countries. Data sovereignty is also associated with privacy, information flows, ownership, inclusiveness, and the representation of different groups into decisions about how data is used or re-used. […]
Behavioral targeting of advertising and content is increasingly common online. By analyzing search terms in a session, documenting content types visited, or employing other approaches, sites try to deliver material that fits interests they believe they can deduce from online […]
[…] or Nation State rights to control data whether within a nation or across countries. Data sovereignty is also associated with privacy, information flows, ownership, inclusiveness, and the representation of different groups into decisions about how data is used or re-used. […]
[…] paid service that charges the partner publishers in addition to the bilateral data flows. I am also reminded that user privacy questions in the scholarly publishing landscape are increasingly complex and that library licensing practices are struggling to keep up. […]
[…] focus areas on patents, pharmaceutical and biotech, and trademark and brand protection. Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe has raised questions about the privacy implications of such models, arguing that as a result the reader is often “the product.” It is little wonder […]
[…] around the world. It’s also important to recognize that sharing data is not always easy to do — technological, legal, privacy, and cultural issues often trip us up. We cannot let our quest for perfection get in the way of […]
[…] closed in response to pushback from authors or funders — this has happened already in a notable number of cases. Privacy concerns, worries about the mismanagement or nefarious application of free information (by poachers and traders in human remains, for […]
[…] will leverage many more pathways to content than those with greater prosperity. Attending to ethical considerations, such as ensuring user privacy and avoiding social scapegoating, are critical information needs during emergencies like COVID. And trustworthy scholarly dissemination becomes ever more […]
[…] methods for remote access led Emerald (and many other publishers) to explore alternatives, such as federated authentication that can support privacy-preserving forms of personalization. As they began to roadmap more effective access workflows, Emerald identified a much bigger opportunity to […]
[…] been immune to criticism or misunderstanding of the service, particularly how GetFTR impacts the role of librarians and link resolvers, privacy, and the need to provide more flexibility and support for integrators of the service. After our first full year […]
[…] extracting value from them. Perhaps this is in recognition of the massive complexity of research datasets, which includes everything from privacy and other ethical factors to metadata description and standardization, far more difficult than the long-derided but ever-durable PDF. An […]