Taxacom: old journals
Richard Pyle
deepreef at bishopmuseum.org
Mon Nov 28 12:16:02 CST 2022
2022
Many thanks for this very useful post, Martin!
I'm curious: if copyright is a greater problem than funding, I wonder if it would potentially make sense to continue scanning content even if it's restricted due to copyright, then have it automatically released according to the window of copyright availability each year? I'm assuming fair-use rules allow the scanners to keep on digitizing content even if it falls within copyright, as long as it's not publicly released.
Or... is that how it already works?
Aloha,
Rich
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> From: Taxacom <taxacom-bounces at lists.ku.edu> On Behalf Of Kalfatovic,
> Martin via Taxacom
> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2022 7:19 AM
> To: Roderic Page <Roderic.Page at glasgow.ac.uk>; taxacom at lists.ku.edu
> Subject: Re: Taxacom: old journals
>
> Hi All, all the info so far is on target.
>
> I'll respond to Rod's comment about diminish content, yes, the past 2+ years
> have seen new BHL content plummet. That has mostly been a factor of
> digitization efforts slowing (or stopping) at some of our big partners. Example:
> Smithsonian went from 335K pages in 2019 to 19k pages in 2021, 7K pages
> 2022 (year to date).
>
> BHL remains an active program of the Smithsonian with generous support. BHL
> also relies on it's 41+ global members and affiliates for funding that primarily
> support technical development as well as digitization of their collections.
>
> BHL roughly adheres to US Copyright. When BHL began, the cut-off date was
> pre-1923 publications. The "wall" has been moving forward for the past few
> years, so as of now, January 1, 1927 is the cutoff date.
>
> As others noted, BHL has actively sought permission from copyright holders for
> permission to make available (with the most liberal licensing) content that is
> (ostensibly) protected by copyright. The terms of each agreement varies, so
> there may be other limitations.
>
> BHL works with the permissions holder and the BHL partner libraries that hold
> the physical copies to digitize additional content as the copyright wall moves
> forward. The past 2+ years have seen many partners stop or slow down
> digitization and things are only now getting started up again at scale. Which is
> to say, we're behind.
>
> To a great extent, it is global copyright law and not necessarily funding that is
> the problem with moving forward with the vast amounts of material out there.
> For legal reasons, BHL is not able to be as aggressive in risk management of
> materials that are likely (legally) covered by legitimate intellectual property
> claims. <sad face>.
>
> Martin
>
>
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> From: Roderic Page <Roderic.Page at glasgow.ac.uk>
> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2022 11:56 AM
> To: taxacom at lists.ku.edu
> Cc: david.redei at gmail.com; Kalfatovic, Martin <kalfatovicm at si.edu>
> Subject: Re: Taxacom: old journals
>
> External Email - Exercise Caution
> I can't speak for BHL, although I do collaborate with the project (e.g.,
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>
> Yes, the original cut off was influenced by US copyright, which moves forward a
> year at a time. In an ideal world this would automatically trigger additional
> scanning across the BHL member libraries, but that requires that those libraries
> have the resources to do this.
>
> Note that there is BHL content that is much more recent, in some cases only a
> few months old. However, this depends on copyright holders being (a) willing
> to make their content available, and (b) BHL having the resources to scan
> and/or process that content.
>
> My sense is that BHL's resources are increasingly limited, and the amount of
> new content being added to BHL (particularly, content related to taxonomy)
> has been diminishing recently. There are a few happy exceptions: a lot of
> recent Australian journals are being added, and most Mus?um National
> d'Histoire Naturelle journals are in BHL.
>
> There is a lot of taxonomic literature that has been digitised but which is not in
> BHL. I've been trying to keep track of some of this, e.g.
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> CInPSrg20ZM%3D&reserved=0> which barely scratches the surface.
>
> Ultimately, as with most things, it comes down to resources (AKA funding).
>
> Rod
> On 28 Nov 2022 at 16:37 +0000, David Redei via Taxacom
> <taxacom at lists.ku.edu<mailto:taxacom at lists.ku.edu>>, wrote:
> As Biodiversity Heritage Library was just mentioned, I take the opportunity to
> pick up a related topic I have wanted to ask since ages.
>
> It is apparent that on BHL the vast majority of periodicals are available up to
> about the early 1920's only. I always suspected (but I might be in error, if so
> please correct me) that this is because the platform started not much before
> 2010, and due to copyright reasons they only uploaded the volumes up to 90
> years before the (that-time) present. But I always expected that as time passes,
> further volumes and issues will be gradually uploaded. Now we are well after
> 2020, so volumes up to the early 1930's would legally be possible to be made
> available, still it apparently does not happen, all titles which over a decade ago
> were uploaded up to the early 1920's are still frozen at the very same year,
> without any subsequent addition.
>
> Does anyone know what the policy of this project is? Will there be any addition
> later, or ten years ago they just uploaded the volumes up to 1920 and only
> those will be available forever, the project has been finished?
>
> With best regards, David Redei
>
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