Open Access, Authors' Rights and the Commons
(2008) Open Access, Authors' Rights and the Commons. Delivered at Canadian Library Association Preconference 2008: Copyright 0.9, Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada). Presentation.
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Abstract
Open Access (OA) is beginning to open up interesting conversation about scholarship and copyright. There are already more than 3,300 fully open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journals listed in DOAJ, many millions of items available in open access archives. Research funders, universities and faculty themselves are requiring OA. A traditional copyright transfer agreement in which all rights are assigned by the author to the publisher, does not make sense in this environment. Most publishers are modifying how they work with authors. One approach is a more liberal copyright policy, which leaves some rights with the author. Some publishers use a license to publish approach, leaving copyright with the author and clarifying rights to publish.
Many authors are negotiating copyright, whether individually or through the use of Authors' Addenda. Some publishers and authors are using Creative Commons licenses.
| Keywords: | open access, author's rights, creative commons, copyright, CLA, Canadian Library Association |
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| Subjects: | E. Publishing and legal issues. > ED. Intellectual property: author's rights, ownership, copyright, copyleft. B. Information use and sociology of information. > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion. |
| ID Code: | 13570 |
| Deposited By: | Morrison, Heather G |
| Deposited On: | 26 May 2008 |
| All fields: | Show all fields |
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