Copyright Clearance Center Extends Rights Licensing Database to Leading Vendors.Business Editors DANVERS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 17, 2003 Ex Libris and XanEdu Integrate with Text Licensing Leader to Deliver Fast Access to Copyright Permissions Copyright Clearance Center Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) is a not-for-profit U.S. company based in Danvers, Massachusetts, that provides collective copyright licensing services for corporate and academic users of copyrighted materials. , the world's largest licensing agent of text reproduction rights, today announced it has provided direct access to its licensing services from applications created by Ex Libris and XanEdu. Through Copyright Clearance Center's Copyright Integration Services, Ex Libris, a leading supplier of software solutions for libraries and information centers, and XanEdu, a publisher of online and offline course materials for the higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. market, now provide a convenient way for their application users to lawfully law·ful adj. 1. Being within the law; allowed by law: lawful methods of dissent. 2. Established, sanctioned, or recognized by the law: the lawful heir. reuse reuse - Using code developed for one application program in another application. Traditionally achieved using program libraries. Object-oriented programming offers reusability of code via its techniques of inheritance and genericity. copyright protected materials. By extending its rights database to vendors that provide access to valuable content, Copyright Clearance Center increases the ease and likelihood of copyright compliance by providing new points of access at which application users can obtain the permission they need. "Copyright Clearance Center has taken a big step forward by cleanly clean·ly adj. clean·li·er, clean·li·est Habitually and carefully neat and clean. See Synonyms at clean. adv. In a clean manner. clean integrating its licensing services into the flow of finding, accessing and using information," said Marc Strohlein, vice president and lead analyst, Content Software Technology at Outsell out·sell tr.v. out·sold , out·sell·ing, out·sells 1. To surpass (another) in an amount sold: a book that outsold all others of its kind. 2. Inc. "Through its Copyright Integration Services, the company will not only simplify the lives of researchers and other information users, but will also make it easier for content users to comply with copyright law." XanEdu has integrated Copyright Clearance Center's licensing services and transaction engine into its production system to streamline the way it secures permission to lawfully produce educational coursepacks. "During our peak season, we can process thousands of copyright licensing transactions in one week. We've seen a significant jump in productivity as a result of integrating our application with Copyright Clearance Center's rights database," said David Prichard, vice president of sales and marketing at XanEdu. "By enabling our employees to obtain permission within our internal systems, we've eliminated repetitive data entry, increased accuracy and improved our overall workflow The automatic routing of documents to the users responsible for working on them. Workflow is concerned with providing the information required to support each step of the business cycle. ." Ex Libris now provides an easy way to use Copyright Clearance Center's licensing services through its award-winning SFX SFX Special Effects SFX Self Extracting (data compression) SFX SpreadFireFox (IRC) SFX Sound Effect(s) SFX Side Effects (counter-strike gaming clan) link server that provides librarians This is a list of people who have practised as a librarian and are well-known, either for their contributions to the library profession or primarily in some other field. with a connection to collections services where content users can quickly access and request permission for the content they wish to reproduce re·pro·duce v. 1. To produce a counterpart, an image, or a copy of something. 2. To bring something to mind again. 3. To generate offspring by sexual or asexual means. . "By providing a direct link to Copyright Clearance Center's rights database and transaction engine from SFX, our customers gain immediate access to copyright permissions where and when they need it," said Jenny Walker, vice president of marketing and business development of the Ex Libris Information Services See Information Systems. Division. "By putting rights licensing services at their fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. , we help them obtain the permissions they need to reuse the content they want." "Copyright Clearance Center wants to put easy copyright licensing services everywhere users access content," said Tracey Armstrong, vice president, Transactional Services at Copyright Clearance Center. "Ex Libris and XanEdu are able to leverage our unparalleled rights database and provide their customers and system users with convenient access to the permissions they need." Copyright Clearance Center's Copyright Integration Services enable content suppliers, aggregators, copyshops, document deliverers and high-volume users of its services to integrate rights licensing into their application workflow, thereby increasing user satisfaction and productivity. The services currently include: -- Permissions Gateway - a Web service consisting of application programming interfaces (APIs) that provide seamless integration between a software application and Copyright Clearance Center's rights database, and -- Permissions Direct - a link from a software application or portal that connects to a specified area in Copyright Clearance Center's Web site using OpenURL standards. Organizations can use either Permissions Gateway or Permissions Direct to integrate with Copyright Clearance Center's rights database, depending on their systems, processes and desired level of integration. These Copyright Integrations Services can be used to support a variety of end-user needs, such as interlibrary in·ter·li·brar·y adj. Existing or occurring between or involving two or more libraries: an interlibrary loan; an interlibrary network. loans, library reserves and e-reserves, course management, coursepack management and document delivery. For more information about Copyright Clearance Center, please visit www.copyright.com. To learn more about Copyright Clearance Center's Copyright Integration Services, please call 978-646-2847 or send an email to integration@copyright.com. About Ex Libris Ex Libris is a leading worldwide developer of high-performance applications for libraries, information centers, and researchers. A multinational company, Ex Libris has offices around the world. ALEPH, the Ex Libris integrated library solution, has been installed at over 800 sites in 50 countries. The Information Services Division (ISD See IDD. ) of Ex Libris, based in Boston, MA, is responsible for the MetaLib and SFX products. MetaLib, the information portal for library collections, and SFX, the context-sensitive linking solution for heterogeneous electronic resources in the scholarly information environment, have been purchased by more than 450 customers in 28 countries. DigiTool, a solution for constructing and managing digital collections, completes the Ex Libris product suite. For more information about Ex Libris, link to http://www.exlibrisgroup.com. About XanEdu XanEdu, a part of ProQuest Education, is a unit of ProQuest Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : PQE PQE Post Qualification Experience PQE Print Quality Enhancement PQE Province of Quebec PQE Preliminary Qualifying Exam PQE Project Quality Engineering PQE Procurement Quality Engineering PQE point quotation explanation PQE Pragmatic Quality Evaluation ). It publishes online and offline course materials for the higher education market, helping faculty teach smarter and students learn smarter. XanEdu's content base is the largest commercial archive in the world. Through its parent, ProQuest Company, XanEdu has access to the archives of journals, periodicals, newspapers, books, dissertations, primary literature works, and academic collections. For more information about XanEdu, visit www.xanedu.com About Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. Copyright Clearance Center, a not-for-profit organization, is the world's largest licensing agent for text reproduction rights and provider of licensing services for reproducing copyrighted materials in print and electronic formats. Founded in 1978, Copyright Clearance Center provides rights management for over 1.75 million works represented by more than 9,600 publishers and hundreds of thousands of authors and other creators, either directly or through their representatives. In addition, the company provides over 10,000 corporations and subsidiaries (including most of the Fortune 100), as well as thousands of government agencies, law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
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