Um - before you can have a "postprint" you must have published the paper
somewhere. In many (most?) cases you will have transferred the copyright to
the journal. So how can the University then assert its ownership of a
copyright that you, the individual academic, have already given away in the
belief that it was yours to give?
Fytton Rowland.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Picciotto, Sol" <s.picciotto_at_LANCASTER.AC.UK>
To: <AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: Draft Policy for Self-Archiving University Research Output
> It seems that copyright ownership could be an important obstacle to
archiving
> postprints. I have proposed at Lancaster that academic staff employment
> contracts be modified to make it clear that the university asserts its
rights
> as employer to copyright in staff research publications, but only to the
extent
> of reserving the right to authorise non-commercial publication on the
internet,
> e.g. in an eprints archive. This would circumvent a possible restriction
> resulting from any copyright assignment the author signs. The idea has
been met
> favourably here, both by the AUT (professional association) and
management, but
> both have referred it for discussion at national level.
>
> I think the university should be willing to forego any claim to income
from
> research publications, but should retain the right to authorise
non-commercial
> publication. The decision on when to publish, which version, etc, should
be
> left to the author(s), within a policy such as that suggested here for
> Southampton, which would greatly facilitate acceptance of eprints
archiving as
> a standard practice.
>
> cheers
>
> Sol
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>
> Prof. Sol Picciotto
> Head,
> Lancaster University Law School
> Lancaster University
> LANCASTER LA1 4YN,
> U.K.
> direct phone (44)(0)1524-592464
> fax (44)(0)1524-525212
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>
> **********************************
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stevan Harnad [SMTP:harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 12:49 PM
> > To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
> > Subject: Draft Policy for Self-Archiving University Research
Output
> >
> > Comments are invited on the following draft for a university policy on
> > the self-archiving of research output:
> >
> > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lac/archpol.html
> >
> > It is being formulated both for use at Southampton
> > University, and as a possible model for wider adoption,
> > particularly in connection with a recommended restructuring
> > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2373.html
> > of UK's Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)
> > http://www.rareview.ac.uk/
> > and its emulation in other countries
> > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2356.html
> >
> > Stevan Harnad
>
>
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