And the percentage of commercial publishers, which dominate in the academic
journal field in the UK? I don't have survey data at hand, but the figures
are very different...and a majority do require assignment of copyright to
publishers, which particularly impacts on young academics and non-super
stars who have much less bargaining power over copyright matters.
Alan Story
Kent Law School
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> A recent survey by the (UK) Association of Learned and Professional
Society
> Publishers showed that a majority (about 70%, from memory) of the journals
> surveyed did not insist on outright transfer of copyright; they mostly
> asked for it, but would not refuse to publish a paper if the author
> insisted on granting only a right of first publication.
>
> Fytton Rowland.
>
>
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