Denise Troll Covey

Principal Librarian for Special Projects

On leave Beginning September 1, 2008 through August 31, 2009 Scholarly communication projects Authors' Rights and Wrongs - Coordinate the ongoing program to help Carnegie Mellon faculty and graduate students understand and manage their copyrights to achieve their goals, including providing open access to their work Carnegie Mellon Research Showcase - Working with University Libraries administration and the Scholarly Communications Committee to develop policy and tactical and strategic plans for a repository that will preserve and provide open access to faculty and graduate student work. 2007-08 studies of Carnegie Mellon faculty self-archiving practices - (1) A systematic study of faculty publication lists on the Web and the types of access provided to the full text of the publications listed, for example, open access, restricted access, no access. (2) An analysis of journal publications, specifically the gap between the opportunity to provide open access (based on publisher policy) and faculty self-archiving practice. Presentation of preliminary findings. 2006 study of Carnegie Mellon faculty publishing practices and copyright transfers - Interviewed a stratified random sample of 87 campus faculty to understand how they select and negotiate with publishers and how they understand copyright and open access. Presentation of key findings. Public policy projects Digital Freedom - Supporting the campaign to defend the rights of artists, innovators, creators and consumers to use technology without fear of unreasonable government restrictions or costly lawsuits.   Title 17, Section 108, library exemptions in U.S. copyright law - Led the University Libraries' participation in the discussion of proposed changes to Title 17, Section 108 of U.S. copyright law. Section 108 provides exceptions and limitations to copyright law for libraries and archives. Analyzed the data gathered in the Copyright Office's investigation of issues. Served on an advisory committee to develop legislative strategies related to proposed changes and desired outcomes. Participated in panels convened by the Library of Congress. Led the University Libraries' response to the initial call for public comment. Drafted our position statement and successful application to participate in the public roundtable discussion of proposed changes to the laws of interlibrary loan. Prepared and submitted the University Libraries' written comments on the issues.   Orphan works - Analyzed the data gathered in the U.S. Copyright Office's investigation of orphan works, i.e., copyrighted materials for which the copyright owner cannot be identified or located. Led the University Libraries' response to the initial call for public comment and the response to the follow-up call. Published and gave many presentations on this topic.   Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) - Led discussion and formulation of the University Libraries' response to the proposed FRPAA, which would require the results of federally funded research to be made freely available on the web within six months of publication. Senator John Cornyn Senator Joe Lieberman Senator Arlen Specter Senator Rick Santorum Representative Mike Doyle Network Neutrality - Led discussion and formulation of the University Libraries' and Computing Services' response to legislation proposed to ensure that the Internet remains neutral and open, from service provider to end user, rather than balkanized by cable and telephone companies. 2007 - letters to Senator Byron Dorgan and Senator Olympia Snowe 2006 - letters to Senator Ted Stevens and Representative Joe Barton Proposed World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) treaty on webcasting - Led University Libraries efforts to prevent passage of this new and unnecessary layer of intellectural property control. Worked with university government relations to prepare letters to relevant senators and representatives: Senator Arlen Specter Senator Patrick Leahy Senator Orrin Hatch Representative Howard Berman Representative Lamar Smith

	NEW

• The Ethics of Open Access to Research: A Call for Civil Disobedience and Moral Courage. Progressive Librarian. Forthcoming.
  
• Faculty Self-Archiving Practices: A Case Study. July 2008. Working paper.
  
• Self-Archiving Journal Articles: A Case Study of Faculty Practice and Missed Opportunity. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 9, 2 (April 2009): 223-251.
  

	Recent presentations

• “The Ethics of Open Access to Research.” Library 2.0 Symposium. Yale Law School. New Haven, CT. April 2009.
  
• “Faculty Self-Archiving: The Gap Between Opportunity and Practice.” International Conference on the Universal Digital Library (ICUDL). Pittsburgh, PA. November 2007.
  
• American Library Association Conference. "Becoming an Orphan: What? How? Says Who?" June 24, 2007. Washington, D.C.
  
• 7th Annual Symposium, Center for Intellectual Property. "Open and Restricted Access: Preserving Community." May 22, 2007. Adelphi, MD.
  
• Digital Library Colloquium. "Faculty Rights and Scholarly Communication Practices." January 17, 2007. Pittsburgh, PA. See videorecording.

	Recent publications

• Self-Archiving Journal Articles: A Case Study of Faculty Practice and Missed Opportunity. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 9, 2 (April 2009): 223-251.
  
• “Copyright and the Universal Digital Library.” Universal Digital Libraries: Universal Access to Information. Proceedings of the International Conference on the Universal Digital Library, 2005. Hangzhou, China: 9-26.
  
• “Rights, Registries, and Remedies: An Analysis of Responses to the Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry Regarding Orphan Works.” Free Culture and the Digital Library: Symposium Proceedings 2005. Atlanta , GA: Emory University: 106-140.
  
• Acquiring Copyright Permission to Digitize and Provide Open Access to Books. CLIR report 134. Washington DC: Council on Library and Information Resources and Digital Library Federation. 2005.