Competency: Library Literature and Books in Print

How can copyright be protected in the digital world? (Or, how can we handle digital rights management – an answer to the first question)

This is the same question I used for the EricFirst and Worldcat search.

Key terms & facets	Protect	Copyright(s)	Digital world
My terms	Protect Protection	Copyright(s)	Digital world Digital rights Electronic books
Library Lit	Electronic publishing/legal aspects
Books in Print	didn't find any that	I hadn't already	found

Another term I have learned about from my last search assignment is Digital Rights Management (DRM) that could work as well.

Library Lit Boolgan subject search: digital rights AND management AND protect

Search results came up empty.

Library Lit Boolgan smart search: digital rights AND management AND protect

The results were 29 records. Several looked promising too. One of the records I chose was "Publishers, Audible Watching eMusic Moves" by Jim Milliot as it deals with DRM and providing unencrypted file to buyers.

Milliot, J. (2007). Publishers, Audible Watching eMusic Moves. Publishers Weekly , 4.

Another article I found was "Ethical Issues Implicit in Library Authentication and Access Management: Risks and Best Practices" by Pam Dixon (2008). This one is about how libraries are involved with DRM.

Dixon, P. (2008). "Ethical Issues Implicit in Library Authentication and Access Management: Risks and Best Practices". Journal of Library Administration , 141-62.

I did complete another search that dealt with how school libraries could inform students about digital copyrights and found an interesting article titled "Front & Center: the Role of Libraries and Copyright in the Digital Age" by G.M. O'Gara (2008).

Books in Print Boolgan subject search: digital rights management AND protect

No matches were found.

Books in Print Boolgan subject search: electronic AND copyright

158 records were found. This is better than the first search, but there are lots of records to go through. Several of the books did seem interesting though. Digital Copyright by Simon Stokes and Intellectual Property Law and Interactive Media: Free for a Fee by Edward Lee Lamoureux both seem to be good for a basic understanding of what copyright and the Internet is.

Books in Print Boolgan subject search: digital rights management AND copyright AND protection

14 matches were found for this search. Handbook of Research on Secure Multimedia Distribution by Shiquo Lian was a book in found in the search and is another good one for getting an understanding on all things dealing with the multimedia (such as the Internet).

Shiquno Lian, Y. Z. (2009). Handbook of Research on Secure Multimedia Distribution. IGI Global.

Books in Print Boolgan subject search: libraries AND copyright

65 matches were found for this search. The book I picked out from this search is Licensing and Managing Electronic Resources: A Librarian's Guide. This book discusses the Electronic Resources librarian with a focus on the copyrights that go with this part of the digital age.

Albitz, R. S. (2008). Licensing and Managing Electronic Resources: A Librarian's Guide. Chandos Publishing.

ETA: In Books in Print, I used the advnaced search selection and chose "subject - all" as my search on option. However, I did go back and try the "Keyword in Subject" and came up with the same results.

I found the Library Lit database to be easier to work with and easier to find information pertaining to my needs. At first I had some problems finding much of anything, but after reading the "Help" I was able to ease through it. Another I noticed was that I found more (maybe even better) information with this database by using the "smart search" option.

As for the Books in Print, I really had trouble getting into this one. Part of my problem may have been that I was looking for articles and not books. However, this database tends to focus on books (as the name of it suggests). I did find some good books, but I had to try several different searches. (I only listed a few of them here.) It was interesting the number of search options one has under "Binding" from the advance search menu.

Competency - WorldCat and ERIC

How can copyright be protected in the digital world? (Or, how can we handle digital rights management – an answer to the first question)

I chose this question as I am interested in how technology is affecting the library and with it the idea of copyrights. The digital rights managements (DRM), I have found, is very interesting. Right now the news about Google books settlement is having to deal with just that question and it is one I am finding very interesting. The idea of who owns what on the Internet has been blurring and I have heard many arguments ranging from music (Napster) to ebooks. Since libraries must uphold to copyright laws no matter the form, I thought it might be in my best interest to understand this policy and the arguments that go with it.


Some other questions I would like to answer from this research:

1. What is the source of this issue?
2. What are the conflicting positions?
3. What arguments or evidence are cited to support conflicting positions?
4. Who has stakes in the resolution of the issue (or its non-resolution)?
5. What is at stake for each stakeholder?
6. What events, decision, or actions will lead to resolution?
   

Key terms or facets: protect, copyright(s), digital world
My terms: protect, protection...copyright(s)...digital world, digital rights
ERIC/First thesaurus terms: electronic publishing...digital technology, electronic books
Worldcat thesaurus terms: trademark infringement, electronic commerce
I tried several different ways to get my table inserted into this post but was unsuccessful. I hope what I was able to include is easy to follow.

Some other terms I discovered from both databases that could work is: compliance (legal), ownership, DRM (digital rights management), electronic development,

ERIC/First search: digital rights AND management
Came up with 61 records. Several on the first page looked promising. I found this record that had lots of information: Imagine No Restrictions: Digital Rights Management

ERIC/First search 2: digital rights AND management AND protect
Came up with 5 records. I chose to look at this one: E-Books and DRM: Rights Management Solutions, Extant Automation Systems, and Institutional Owners/Lenders. (SIGs LAN, PUB: Library Automation, Networks and Information Generation and Publication). It talked about publisher's choice of format to protect content and integrating digital rights managements with current library automation systems.

Worldcat Boolgan search: digital rights AND management
Came up with 766 records. This was a little much but there were a few records on the first page that looked promising.

Worldcat Boolgan search 2: digital rights AND management AND protect
Came up with 24 records and several seem to have potential for my research. Here is a book that could work, Intellectual property and information wealth : issues and practices in the digital age.
Here is another book that might work too, Multimedia security technologies for digital rights management.


I found that both databases gave some good results, but there were subtle differences in them. I noticed that some of the terms didn't transfer between the two, but my terms did. Overall I was pleased with both results and foudn them easy to use. One thing I would like to have seen were articles about this issue today inaddtion to the books. I may also need to reword my question (or use some of my other questions) to get all of the information I would like to have.