I seem unable to post to JISC-Development Digest from my current email
address but I daresay everyone reads this list too!
Sally
From: "Sally Morris (ALPSP)" <sally.morris_at_alpsp.org>
To: "jisc development discussion forum" <JISC-DEVELOPMENT_at_JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Not a direct response to this issue, but it is interesting (and perhaps
worrying) that our study showed up the fact that 18% of Full OA journals
do not require any copyright agreement (whether licence or transfer) from
authors, leaving the copyright status of the journal's contents completely
unclear; at the other extreme, 14% do require authors to transfer
copyright
Sally
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Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
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>> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 20:23:43 +0100
>> From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
>> Subject: Do PrePrints and PostPrints Need a Copyright Licence?
>>
>> As Roger Clarke's email form letter to Repository Managers is being
>> circulated quite widely, I would accordingly like to make these comments
>> and suggestions publicly:
>>
>> (1) For the unrefereed, unpublished preprint, it is a good idea to do
>> as Roger recommends: to adopt some form of provisional Creative Commons
>> License rather than just putting it "nakedly" on the Web when
>> self-archiving
>> it.
>>
>> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
>>
>> (2) This does not apply, however,, to the final, refereed, accepted,
>> published draft (the postprint), which is published in a journal, which
>> will have its own copyright transfer agreement, signed with the
>> publisher,
>> and which is the primary target of the Open Access movement.
>>
>> "Apercus of WOS Meeting: Making Ends Meet in the Creative Commons"
>> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3798.html
Received on Mon Oct 17 2005 - 11:16:27 BST