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- From: cbs@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Chris Syed)
- Subject: Re: Free Publicity for Your Newsletter or Magazine
- Message-ID: <C1IyF1.31q@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: UTCS Public Access
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:09:00 GMT
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- Under Canadian copyright law, copyright is inherent in your work.
- You needn't really do anything.
-
- However, it's to your advantage to do the following:
-
- - Apply for a publisher's number and set of ISBN numbers if you intend
- to publish books or pamphlets etc. Once assigned, you simply check
- off the numbers as you use them and include them on the verso of
- your title pages.
-
- - If you publish a journal or newsletter, apply for an ISSN number.
-
- - To have your work catalogued properly before it is typeset, and to
- have it announced in the nation-wide forthcoming books bulletin,
- ask the National Library of Canada for a Cataloguing In Publication
- kit. They'll send you some forms to fill out each time you issue a
- book. You wait till they catalogue the book properly, then include
- the CIP data on the title page verso. Librarians will thank you!
-
- - Comply with legal deposit - send 2 copies of everything you do to
- the NLC for preservation. This will also prove that it's your work
- should anyone dispute your copyright. Technically, if your stuff is
- by, about, or done in Canada, you're required to do this by law.
- In fact, once you start doing it, they start sending you reminders
- that you're liable to prosecution if you forget to send them an
- issue. ;-)
-
- For complete ISBN/ISSN/CIP information kits, write:
-
- National Library of Canada
- 395 Wellington
- Ottawa, Ontario
- K1A 9Z9
-
- This is good free publicity, (forthcoming goes to all bookstores
- and libraries which subscribe to the trade newspaper Quill & Quire),
- It's also a simple way to ensure that your publication appears in the
- national bibliography, that your authors' names are spelled correctly
- in the authorities files. It also saves librarians lots of work when
- deciding to buy the book, as the proper classifcations and subject
- headings will have already been assigned.
-
- Happy typesetting!
-
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- "We cannot think without imagining." -- Thomas Aquinas
- cbs@.utcs.utoronto.ca (Chris Brown-Syed)
- FLIS PhD Office, Room 608 Bissell Bldg., Univ. of Toronto, 140 St.George St.
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