1. E-Publication, copy right and ICT based Librarianship
Prof.DattatrayaL.Thosar
Librarian
All IndiaInstitute of
Local Self-Government, Pune
Abstract
Copy right means the ownership of the work which is protected by the act. Copy right offence
issues arise if the reproduction of above mentioned artistic work has done without prior
permission of the owner of art/ literature. E-publications has been publish by
publisher/distributer. Library gets links by subscribing the databases and e-publications. E-
publication means communication to publication. Copy right arise on circulation not on
Communication. For efficient digital library service we need to formulate new digital library law
which will protect library from offences and protect the copy rights of the author.
Copy Right and library policy.
Copy right is the protection policy for author and publisher. Library should do its acts
considering the services and not to broke the law of the copy right. Copy right means the
owner-ship of the work which is protected by the copy right act.. The meaning of the copy is
creating the copy for gaining profit. Copy right act regulates how libraries uses the material
which has been acquired. Copy right issues arises if the reproduction of published art
,literature, diagrams, chart, picture etc. artistic work of individual or organized body has done
without permission of the writer /publisher. Library professionals should attention that as per
the coy right act the author is the owner of the published work. He gets a very good amount as a
loyalty of the published copy form the publisher. When the first copy of the artistic work has
published the copy right of publisher has begin. Copy rights can be transferred to others. If a
student photo copy the artistic work literature it is fair. Libraries can photo copy it. The
ownership of the art lives full life of the author. After his death the assigned person gets the coy
rights till 50 yrs. These are the some of the signs. After this the document owner is pubic.
If we purchase the licensee copy of e-publication for library. As a library we should provide
service like CAS, Abstract, Translation, Reference Service, Information Service, email service,
digital library service and so on. We are the service providers and that’s why we should be
consider e-book, e-journal is as a knowledge instrument. We the library professionals works for
service and maximum fulfillment of the users. On the other side the author consider e-book, e-
journal as an literature and he concentrate on the loyalty of the book from the publisher. The
publisher / distributers considers e-book, e-journal is as a product. They works for gaining
profit.
2. Library Services and Copy Right
Copy right means the owner ship of the work/art. The meaning of the copy is creating the copy
for gaining profit. It is an international law as well as national law. Copy right issues arise In
the case of the reproduction of published art ,literature, diagram, chart, picture etc. artistic
work of individual or organized body. Copy right offence issues arise if the reproduction of
above mentioned artistic work has done without prior permission of the owner of art/
literature. Library professionals should attention that as per the coy right act the author is the
owner of the published work. He gets a very good amount from as a loyalty of the published
copy. When the first copy of the artistic work has published the copy right of publisher has
begin. Copy rights can be transferred to others. If a student photo copy the artistic work/
literature it is fair. Libraries can photo copy 10 Nos. of the artistic work/ literature. The
ownership of the art /literature lives full life of the author. After his death the assigned person
gets the coy rights till 50 yrs. These are the some of the signs of the copy right. After that the
freely open to the pubic.
E-Publication nature and copy right
e-books, e-journals, databases, e-papers, scanned digitized in house library books , e- reports
scanned digitized in house library journals, content files, word excel presentations slides etc. can
be used as a e publication. It means every available data which can be accessed through ICT
instruments can be called as a e-data . and a e-data which is published by authentic person or a
organization can be called e-publication. Library can use e-publications without any hurdles but
what about the e-data. Does libraries can use it frequently.Yes it can. Providing its services as a
user friendly, librarian should be act as an IT Professional . But some barrier gets to provide e-
service of e-publications. One of the barrier may called is a copy right. If we try to to think the
digitization of the document first question came in mind what to do of copy right. I here suggest
on solution , Library is a service provider, not a body of policy making of what to do and don’ts.
e-journals are one of the e-publication. Readers can get the e-journal more early than
the print journal. You can read it at places where you are . For e- service, you must be the
member of library or digital library and has secured user Id and password issued by the library.
It create the security and safety of the data provided by library. Readers can use this e-content
for a long period . E-books, e -journals has been published by authorized publisher and prior
permission of author. Library purchase it for its users . library / digital library can use each
and every tool of ICT to disseminate the e-service to its users. Thus as a digital library service
there no issue arise of copy right. There is small difference between publication and e-
publication, databases. Tangible media like CD, DVD, CD-Rom the author has a right to publish
it or not. In the e-publication, databases the author has given the data to publisher and the
publisher decides to publish it or not in his database. Library has some problems in e-
3. publications. Some of them as follows 1) Publishers refuse to include certain titles of e‐books
2)Remove certain titles from the subscription packages . 3)Sometimes data get change 4) some
time data cannot accessed etc. these library problems cannot be slowed by this copy right act.
How it is regulate the e-service of the library. For the protection of the copy right and
development of services using e-publications we need need digital library law. proposed digital
library law can be assist the libraries for their digital library and e-book services. as well as
protect the copy rights and increase the library services with the weapons of ICT.
librarianship need to be bold nature and Innovative
The electronic environment of the 21st century demands a range of skills form librarians and
information scientists. In the ICT area library need Higher level skill based library professionals
Librarians, information scientist. The skills like app development , software development,
Internet networking, hardware engineering, ability to access various communication
instruments. Users wants advice and help on search techniques, online databases, online
information, choose of information which is available. Library can create in-house databases
collection. Create current awareness services, information services, form the data bases of
books, journals, e-book, e-journals, in-house digitized books, in-house digitized journals, in-
house digitized reports and so on digitized in house data. For this innovative work some
boldness, innovativeness and leadership requires form the library professionals. Some
Innovations need for this ICT artistic work. Without innovation you can’t develop your e-Service
using e-publications. Also keep in mind that we are not broking the copy rights.
Copy right, e-publications and e-serviceof library
E-publication and copyright issues It requires to show the difference between copy right and
communication to public.
Libraries stimulate interest in reading, and people who borrow many books also buy many
books. Libraries do not ruin the market. However, if a library acquire an electronic publication
and make it available on the server for registered users to access, there would subsequently be
no need to buy it. In the e-services library takes user centric attitude. This attitude has been
acquired for registered users which spread all over glob. And it is online service of the library.
In this online service the libraries requires to generate user ID and Password to its users. This
online service must be provided its registered users. And this online service must be restricted
to the non library users. That is the way library can give its digital library service to its users
efficiently and continuously. One more question here arise is that if the data which has retried
by the registered user and this data used by the unauthentic person for his profit. What should
be done by the reader and which step should be taken by the library . I will suggest the answer
as follows. The question has along with its answer. In this case the author or owner of the
4. art/literature can register his complaint. Here is the need of digital library law which has not
been passed in the India, and worldwide. In this digital library law we can make provisions how
to protect the copy rights and how to prevent library, from such cases. And which activities
digital library can do for its services. By making provisions in digital library law we can keep
aside digital library from the claims/offences. Due the digital library law library cannot work
effectively having strengths and weapons of ICT. Here need a law of digital library which
empowers the libraries to give effectively verity of digitized and e-publication data services to
its users in the developed ICT area. The users can use the library service from local area as
well as anywhere from Universe. Library for service not for protect the rights. If we working
with the mind set of protect the copy right. We cannot do very well. Keep aside the law and do
whatever you want. But keep mind that there is no digital library law in India. And that’s why
make provision of registered users with Online user ID and Password. Like Databases providers.
Librarians can implement the techniques of database providers for e-publications and its all
services with the help of ICT tools. Organization has ethical dilemmas without proper
governance and guidelines. They need process, people, training with strong ethical code to
govern the Big data initiatives. During the data initiatives original data can be altered . the
library must track and maintain the privacy and security aspect of the original data throughout
the data life cyce.
Single photo copy may be made for personal use as allowed by national copy right laws
permission of the publisher and payment of a fee is required for all other photo coping, including
multiple or systematic coping for advertising or promotional purpose, resale, and all forms of
document delivery.
Epublications, ebooks are the instruments of communication
1”Works published in databases are not distributed; they are communicated to the public or
made available to the public. Communication to the public or making available to the public is
regarded as a service, and the question of exhaustion does not arise in the case of services.
Therefore every on‐line access is an act which is subject to authorisation. This right is
non‐exhaustible, and until the work becomes public domain – approximately 100 to 120 years
after publication – libraries are dependent on the licensee agreement with the author or other
rights holders to whom the author may have transferred his copyright.”
E‐publishing and acquisition and copy right
Since the end of 1990 the electronic journals published and distributed in packages like
consortiums , and it has compiled by publisher or distributed as per libraries needs. Acquisition
process has been changed and taken place by subscription. To access the e-publications we
5. require internet access point of publishers or distributers databases. The libraries has a lot of
connections of databases. The databases has taken the place of book collection.
2“The main problem is that the supplier decides what is in the package, and he may not be
interested in including “bestsellers” or even very infrequently used material. The result is that
the library may not be able to present to its users the very best literature or the most
specialised literature on a subject. The library may become a distributor of mainstream
products.
Another consequence is that libraries will no longer be able to control the authenticity of the
content or to ensure that content is not removed from the databases. It is very difficult to
detect whether content has been tampered with, but it regularly happens that content is
removed from the databases. This may be due to technical problems or to commercial
decisions made by the service provider and publisher. Sometimes the content will be available
from another distributor, and sometimes it simply disappears.
Now, the library may want to include a provision in the licensing contract with the publisher,
that mate‐ rial may not be changed or removed from the database, but this is subject to
freedom of contracts. If the publisher judges that a book is so valuable to the users that he may
obtain greater revenue from selling the work directly to the users rather than including it in the
subscription package to the library, nothing can force the publisher to act otherwise.”
Consequences
The publisher decided the policy what should be included in the e-book, e-journals, databases.
The library cannot decide the policy. Library make only connections. Libraries are the
customers and also service providers to its registered users. We cannot publish or reproduce
the art or literature work. We provide service to our registered users. If alongside third
unauthorized third person or organization reproduce it. Library has no links for this offence.
That is the reason librarians should act frequently and free minded for its e-services. Also
library is not responsible for the broken of the copy rights.
1) Harald von Hielmcrone, Rosa Maiello,Toby Bainton and Vincent Bonnet (April2012) E‐publishing and thechallenges for
libraries
2) Harald von Hielmcrone, Rosa Maiello,Toby Bainton and Vincent Bonnet (April2012) E‐publishing and the challenges for
libraries
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