Copright /right of the Author law in Germany means:
it serves the publishers the right of the form, format, layout of the
paper, not the content. There is no rights management for the content.
Thus this fits to not selfarchive the .pdf file of the publisher but the
content in a form and format of the author.
Ebs
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Peter Suber wrote:
> At 09:48 AM 10/29/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>
> >On 28 Oct 2003 at 17:02, Peter Suber wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > This elaboration can easily be read to include the author's directory
> > > within an institutional repository.
> > >
> >
> >but the next faq from Nature says that 'you may not distribute the
> >PDF... on open archives'. So presumably you can still keep _your_
> >version of the article on an open archive, but not the one which was
> >published in Nature.
> >
> >Regards
> >Chris Korycinski
> >
> >St Andrews eprints administrator, Main Library
>
>
> Chris,
> You're right. But the FAQ makes clear that it's the PDF and its
> distinctive look and feel, not the refereed text, that _Nature_ wants to
> keep out of open archives. As long as authors may post the refereed text
> to open archives, then we have all we need for open access.
>
> Best,
> Peter
>
>
>
>
> ----------
> Peter Suber
> Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College
> Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge
> Author, SPARC Open Access Newsletter
> Editor, Open Access News blog
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> peter.suber_at_earlham.edu
>
>
Received on Fri Oct 31 2003 - 16:23:22 GMT