RoMEO Studies 4: An analysis of Journal publishers' Copyright Agreements
(2003) RoMEO Studies 4: An analysis of Journal publishers' Copyright Agreements.
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Abstract
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
| Keywords: | Romeo Project, copyright, Open archive |
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| Subjects: | E. Publishing and legal issues. |
| ID Code: | 1428 |
| Deposited By: | Marchitelli, Andrea |
| Deposited On: | 27 May 2004 |
| Alternative Locations: | http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/RoMEO%20Studies%204.pdf |
| All fields: | Show all fields |
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