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 |
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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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