Managing Your Intellectual Property

The UCLA IRB Policy 42 allows for registration of public use datasets and publicly available data depositories to eliminate the need for obtaining a Certification for Exemption of Review.

This means that any data available from the following pre-approved public use data sets can now be freely used with no paperwork or certifications required:

The ISSR Data Archive<http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/issr/da/> will assist in getting other public use data sets registered; please send your suggestions or requests for further information to Libbie Stephenson, Archivist (libbie@ucla.edu).  Check out the IRB Policy 42 periodically as more data sets may soon be registered.

UCLA faculty members are invited to “‘What Are My Rights?’: Software, Patents, and Open Source” on Thursday, April 10, from noon to 1:30 p.m. Kat Fibiger, software creator and new member of the UCLA’s Office of Intellectual Property, will lead this lunch session and describe UC policy related to these areas.

Admission is free, and lunch will be provided. Advance registration is required by Monday, April 7.

Now available online - Information and resources from the February 7 faculty lunch session “‘Don’t I Own My Own Work?’: Negotiating to Keep Your Copyright” that alert faculty about their rights as authors and suggest strategies for retaining copyright during the publication process.  An overview of UC policy on copyright ownership, examples of authors’ agreements, and strategies for negotiating them are outlined in a PowerPoint presentation.  A handout in PDF format with URLs of useful Web sites is also available.

The session is part of the yearlong series “Intellectual Property in the Digital Age:  The Rights Stuff for Teaching and Publishing.”  The final session in the series, “‘What Are My Rights?’: Software, Patents, and Open Source,” will be on Thursday, April 10.  For more information and to register online, go to the Faculty and the Collections Web site.

UCLA faculty members are invited to “‘Don’t I Own my Own Work?’: Negotiating to Keep Your Copyright” on Thursday, February 7, from noon to 1:30 p.m. This lunch session will offer suggestions on how to negotiate agreements with publishers in order to keep your rights to use and reuse your work as you wish. Admission is free, and lunch will be provided. Advance registration is required by Monday, February 4.

Open Humanities Press (OHP), an open access publisher of contemporary critical and cultural theory, will launch in 2008 as a consortium of leading open access journals in continental philosophy, cultural studies, new media, film, and literary criticism.  The editorial board includes a number of UC faculty as well as N. Katherine Hayles and Douglas Kellner from UCLA.

Sharon Farb has been appointed as the UCLA Library’s new associate university librarian for collection management and scholarly communication.  She has been head of Digital Collection Services for the Library since April 2006 and has worked at the Library in various positions since 1989.  She earned a BS in criminology from UC Berkeley, a JD from Golden Gate University Law School, and an MA and a PhD in information studies from UCLA.