Dear,
May I kindly suggest the RoMEO project also looks into the significant work in
this realm that is being undertaken by the Creative Commons
(
http://www.creativecommons.org).
many greetings
herbert van de sompel
Elizabeth Gadd wrote:
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> In Higher Education today there are many calls for change in the scholarly
> communication process.One suggestion receiving a lot of publicity is that
> academics ‘self-archive’ their research papers either by making them available
> on their own web pages, or by submitting them to an institutional repository
> or a subject-based archive.The Open Archives Initiative has supported this
> activity by developing an open standard by which metadata about the research
> papers can be disclosed and harvested, thus increasing the visibility and
> impact of the research.
>
> Even though such research papers are ‘given away’ by academics, and metadata
> about them is freely created and disclosed, intellectual property rights
> issues are still being raised.Academics may not care who copies their paper,
> but who’s to stop someone publishing it under someone else’s name?Or altering
> the text in some way?Data providers may be pleased that their metadata is
> being harvested, but what if someone then starts selling access to it?
>
> To address some of these questions, the UK Joint Information Systems Committee
> have funded a one-year investigation into the rights issues surrounding the
> self-archiving movement.The project, called RoMEO (Rights MEtadata for Open
> archiving), is based at Loughborough University and will run for one year
> until July 2003.The Project is being directed by Professor Charles Oppenheim,
> with Professor Stevan Harnad chairing the Advisory Board.
>
> The principal aims of the project are to map all the rights issues relevant to
> the self-archiving of research papers in UK HE under the Open Archive
> Initiative’s Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) and to consider ways
> of addressing them.One particular goal will be the development of some simple
> rights metadata which can be assigned by academics depositing papers in
> institutional (or other) archives, disclosed by data providers, harvested by
> service providers, and displayed to end-users, via the OAI-PMH.
>
> The Project Team are inviting input from interested parties, in particular
> academics, publishers, OAI data and service providers, on the rights issues
> they face throughout the self-archiving process.Please contact Elizabeth Gadd,
> Research Associate, Project RoMEO, Dept of Information Science, Loughborough
> University, Loughborough, Leics, LE11 3TU. Tel. 01509 228053, Email.
> e.a.gadd_at_lboro.ac.uk
>
> Project web pages, including our first survey for academic authors, are now
> available at
> http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/index.htmland will be
> updated throughout the course of the project.
>
> Elizabeth Gadd, Research Associate &
> Editor, Library and Information Research News
> Department of Information Science
> Loughborough University
> Loughborough, Leics, LE11 3TU
> Tel: +44 (0)1509 228053 Fax: +44 (0)1509 223072
> Email: E.A.Gadd_at_lboro.ac.uk
> ************************************************
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Herbert Van de Sompel
digital library research & prototyping
Los Alamos National Laboratory - Research Library
+ 1 (505) 667 1267 / http://lib-www.lanl.gov/~herbertv/
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Received on Tue Sep 10 2002 - 03:06:38 BST