RoMEO Studies 4: An analysis of Journal publishers' Copyright Agreements

Gadd, Elizabeth, Oppenheim, Charles and Probets, Steve RoMEO Studies 4: An analysis of Journal publishers' Copyright Agreements., 2003 [Preprint]

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This article is the fourth in a series of six emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open archiving). It describes an analysis of 80 scholarly journal publishers’ copyright agreements with a particular view to their effect on author self-archiving. 90% of agreements asked for copyright transfer and 69% asked for it prior to refereeing the paper. 75% asked authors to warrant that their work had not been previously published although only two explicitly stated that they viewed self-archiving as prior publication. 28.5% of agreements provided authors with no usage rights over their own paper. Although 42.5% allowed self-archiving in some format, there was no consensus on the conditions under which self-archiving could take place. The article concludes that author-publisher copyright agreements should be reconsidered by a working party representing the needs of both parties

Item type: Preprint
Keywords: Romeo Project, copyright, Open archive
Subjects: E. Publishing and legal issues.
Depositing user: Andrea Marchitelli
Date deposited: 27 May 2004
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 11:58
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/4846

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