Copyright Clearance Center and BioOne Partner to Expand Market Reach For Small Science Publishers.DANVERS, Mass. -- 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 premier provider of copyright licensing and compliance solutions, today announced a new strategic partnership with BioOne, a leading online aggregator of bioscience research journals. The partnership allows independent research publishers to extend their reach into markets they ordinarily may not have the resources to pursue. Publishers that join BioOne are automatically eligible to be included in all of Copyright Clearance Center's secondary licensing programs. "We are extremely excited about this new relationship between BioOne and Copyright Clearance Center." said Heather Joseph, president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of BioOne. She continued, "We believe it is essential for journal publishers to maximize the protection of their intellectual property and to cultivate new sources of income. Further, a proactive effort is needed to reach for the highest possible dissemination dissemination Medtalk The spread of a pernicious process–eg, CA, acute infection Oncology Metastasis, see there of articles for legitimate 'fair use'. However, many society and other nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. publishers lack the resources for administering such efforts and might even be unaware of the programs available to them." Edward Colleran, director of publisher relations at Copyright Clearance Center, agreed that publishers have much to gain from this new arrangement. "This partnership gives participating publishers an opportunity to realize the full value of their intellectual property and also enhances BioOne's services to researchers," said Colleran. About Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. Copyright Clearance Center is the world's premier provider of copyright licensing and compliance solutions for the information content industry. A trusted intermediary between copyright holders and content users, the company facilitates the exchange of 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. rights and royalties through a wide range of licensing services. Copyright Clearance Center manages the rights to millions of works and represents more than 9,600 publishers and hundreds of thousands of authors and other creators. The company's comprehensive, convenient compliance solutions enable more than 10,000 corporations and subsidiaries, including nearly all of the Fortune 100, and 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]
About BioOne BioOne is an online aggregation of, at present, 81 high-impact bioscience research journals from 63 not-for-profit publishers. Formed as an innovative collaboration of scholars, society publishers, librarians and a commercial press, BioOne's mission is to enhance access and distribution of research by not-for-profit organizations in the fields of botany botany, science devoted to the study of plants. Botany, microbiology, and zoology together compose the science of biology. Humanity's earliest concern with plants was with their practical uses, i.e., for fuel, clothing, shelter, and, particularly, food and drugs. , ecology and zoology zoology, branch of biology concerned with the study of animal life. From earliest times animals have been vitally important to man; cave art demonstrates the practical and mystical significance animals held for prehistoric man. . Sold to institutional libraries, the service is available at more than 800 institutions worldwide and provides more than 600,000 full-text articles to researchers, scholars and students every month. Founded in 1999, BioOne is headquartered in Washington, DC. For more information, please visit, www.BioOne.org. |
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