NEWS FROM MEMBER COUNTRIES
Sweden The Swedish Copyright Act, which implements the EC Copyright Directive, will be delayed for a year until January 2005 because of the vast number of comments to the Ministry of Justice.
A Parliamentary Committee is examining the role of the Royal Library in its capacity as the Swedish National Library. There are a number of proposals, which have already emerged, principally in the areas of digitisation, web facilitation and electronics.
United Kingdom The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee:
Inquiry into scientific publications has now reported.
Freedom of Information legislation, giving statutory individual rights of access to information held by government and other bodies, comes into effect in the UK in January 2005.
ECIA MEMBER PUBLICATIONS
ADBS has ceased publication of its hardcopy newsletters: ADBS-Info and Actualités du droit de l'information (ADI). Now, the association produces two electronic newsletters: La lettre de l'ADBS and ADI.
ADBS has published two new books: To make a success of the exam of CAPES (diploma for educational area) of Documentation:to educate with information by Odile Riondet; and From bibliographical catalogue to the resources of the Web: the case of the contextual links by Tosca Consultants.
AIDA continues to publish AIDA Lampi, the online monthly newsletter, which is edited by Gabriele Gatti. AIDA Informazioni, which was founded in 2002, is becoming an authoritative Italian source in information science. Mario De Gregorio is the Editor-in Chief; Anna Baldazzi is the Scientific Referee.
AIDA has published a number of monographs. An example is Multimedia Information Retrieval edited by Roberto Raieli and Perla Innocenti, which is an international review of content-based retrieval methodologies.
The AIDA website (http://www.aidaweb.it) has become an effective portal for AIDA publications.