Satisfaction on the part of the students plays an important role when teachers, their course programmes and the general quality of educational programmes are evaluated. Knowledge of the factors that influence satisfaction with e-learning initiatives can help improve such courses. In this study, involving 1114 university students from southern Spain, the authors determined and analysed the main components influencing students' level of satisfaction with e-learning. The most relevant findings were that course design and contents, the facility for accessing and visualising information on the teaching platform and the possibility of interaction were key aspects. The research also points to the importance of the professor as a motivating figure upon whom successful completion of a course largely relies.

The problems that the great developments in digital information and the Internet are creating for copyright may be partly solved through new legislation as well as through the implementation of technological systems (generically known as ECMS) that help protect it. These two approaches – legal and technological – interact, as the new copyright laws protect these electronic measures through the prohibition of their circumvention. The contents of the three main legal norms that have regulated this area to date, the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the European Directive and the new Australian Copyright Act, are analysed in an attempt to determine what impact they might have on the traditional limitations and exceptions to copyright (fair use/dealing, private copying, library privileges) that benefit libraries, their users and the general public.

Objective: To assess the level of knowledge about and the attitudes of the Cuban health researchers towards the open access movement. Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted from March to June 2007 through a printed questionnaire administered to a group of Cuban researchers from several national health institutes, who were selected by means of a stratified random sampling (160 researchers from 11 institutions). Summary statistics and bivariate correlations were obtained using the SPSS

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Este trabajo presenta los resultados más relevantes de un diagnóstico sobre el estado de las políticas y estrategias de los comités editoriales de las revistas científicas latinoamericanas para favorecer el uso y reúso en acceso abierto de la producción científica que publican, así como sobre las percepciones y actitudes de editores y autores con relación a estas políticas y estrategias. Se realizó análisis cuantitativo y cualitativo a los datos obtenidos de 516 revistas y de 400 cuestionarios de editores y 101 de autores. La mayoría de las revistas son gratuitas y consideradas de acceso abierto por sus editores, pero en muchos casos disponen de políticas de derecho de autor restrictivas o carecen de información explícita sobre las condiciones de uso de los artículos. Las estrategias institucionales y editoriales para promover el modelo son escasas y tienen poca visibilidad entre los autores. El financiamiento sostenible y la falta de familiarización con el modelo de acceso abierto están entre las barreras más importantes para que América Latina lleve adelante estas iniciativas. La región de América Latina necesita mayor y mejor alineación y coherencia de las políticas institucionales y editoriales con los principios y estrategias que favorecen el acceso abierto, así como mayor preparación de editores y autores.

A solid professional performance on the part of academic librarians at present calls for adequate knowledge about copyright law, not only for the development of their own tasks without infringing the law, but also to guide and provide pertinent advice for library users (faculty and students). This paper presents the results of an online survey of Brazilian academic librarians, the objective being to determine the level of knowledge about basic questions on copyright related to their professional activities. The case of Brazil is especially relevant, as it is one of the few countries still not including library exceptions and limitations in its copyright law. Our results make manifest important gaps in knowledge about copyright, underlining the need for a training program to remedy the situation. Moreover, because training is needed for current as well as future professionals, it should be implemented in both the professional and the educational sector. ost informational resources that make up university library collections are copyrighted works, meaning that a good proportion of the everyday activity of these libraries comes into contact with copyright law. We can find a wide array of examples. If one copies, photocopies, scans, or digitizes a work, the right of reproduction must be taken into account, as it does when something is downloaded from the Internet. Making a work available to the public, whether over Internet or in an intranet, has implications for the right of communication to the public (that is, the right to perform or display the work publicly according to U.S. law). If a work is adapted, translated, or summarized, we run into the right of transformation. Moreover, the moral rights of the authors, which were rarely an issue when dealing with analog information, are strongly affected in the case of digital information. 1 Thus, modifying or eliminating the authorship data of a work is an infraction of the right of paternity/attribution, while significantly altering a work, for instance through activities of digital preservation, may entail an infraction of the right of integrity. Problems can also arise surrounding some norms recently included in most

TransInformação, Campinas, 22(2):123-138, maio/ago., 2010 Garantia literária: elementos para uma revisão crítica após um século R E S U M OConsiderando o princípio da garantia literária, formulado por Hulme em 1911, para quem os termos de um sistema de classificação devem derivar antes da literatura a ser efetivamente classificada (o que se encontra documentado) do que de considerações puramente teóricas (classificações científicas ou filosóficas ou em uma suposta autoridade dos primeiros classificacionistas), observa-se uma ruptura com as concepções de Harris e de Dewey que, por sua vez, haviam se baseado em Bacon e Leibnitz. Deste modo, busca-se contribuir para uma síntese crítica do referido princípio como subsídio teórico aos estudos de organização do conhecimento. Para tanto, estuda-se a vigência deste princípio ao longo de um século por meio de distintos dados documentais (registro em dicionários, recuperação no Google etc.), reconhecendo-o enquanto elemento metodológico em sistemas de classificação e em padrões de registro. Nesse âmbito discutem-se os procedimentos top-down ou bottom-up de desenho de sistemas e se resenham três aplicações tradicionais da garantia literária, sugerindo-se três novas aplicações, em virtude de seu potencial metodológico. Tais aspectos levam a concluir pela crescente perspectiva de aplicação da garantia literária dentro e fora do campo da Ciência da Informação.Palavras-chave: Garantia literária. Sistemas de organização do conhecimento. Vocabulário controlado. A B S T R A C T

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