Hi, Sara. I do something that seems to prevent having my books
kicked back for copyright reasons. When I'm done validating a book,
I look up the copyright information on the copyright.gov site. There
are step by step instructions for doing this in the tips section of
Jake's web site. As I'm uploading the book to Bookshare, I paste the
information from copyright.gov into the comments field. That shows
Gustavo that the information is correct and that he can find it
easily if he needs to see the copyright notice for himself. This
step may not be necessary for every book, but I have made it a part
of my validation process because it saves me time in the long run
since my books are generally approved with this information in the
comment field. Jake's web address for volunteer tips like using
copyright.gov is http://www.jbrownell.com/bks/tl.asp I hope this
helps you out.
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I've tried asking this several times and am not sure if I'm just missing the answer in the volume of mail or if it hasn't been answered... I often have books kicked back to step 1 with the message, "please verify the author" (or editor or copyright holder). I am unsure why this is necessary since this information matches in the submission information and in what appears in the scan. Is this some kind of new requirement we're supposed to do in the validation process, going to the Library of Congress and searching for this info? I have looked all over the Bookshare iste for the validation instructions to try and find this out for myself, and I'm not finding those either. I would really appreciate an answer to this. I enjoy validating, but not when I have to waste a lot of time verifying information that is in plain site. I could understand it if the information in the submission and the scan did not match; but it does seem like the validation process is becoming more and more arduous. It's very discouraging to spend a long time reading through a book, correcting errors that don't go through the spell checker, etc, only to have it show back up on the step 1 page because I didn't know I was supposed to go look on the LOC page for info that's already there.
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