Re: Author's Rights: Going Too Far - Or Industry Standard?

[Sandy Thatcher <sgt3@psu.edu>]

If peer-reviewed papers are allowed to be posted on IRs and 
personal web sites, how is this not open access? My understanding 
is that this is what Stevan Harnad calls Green OA.

Sandy Thatcher
Penn State University Press

> Is Author's Rights going too far, as a couple of recent 
> commenters have suggested - or, are liberal author's rights 
> rapidly becoming an industry standard?
>
> The recent statement on the topic by the STM / PSP / ALPSP 
> groups suggests the latter, that the emerging standard in the 
> industry is liberal copyright which leaves most rights with the 
> author.
>
>  From the Statement:
>
> Standard journal agreements typically allow authors:
>
> * To use their published paper in their own teaching and 
> generally within their institution for educational purposes * To 
> send copies to their research colleagues * To re-use portions of 
> their paper in further works or book chapters, and * To post 
> some version of the paper on a pre-print server, their 
> Institutional Repository or a personal web site (though 
> sometimes not for the weekly news-oriented science or medical 
> magazines, for public health and similar reasons)
>
> It is also noteworthy that the language refers to grants 
> of copyright or publishing agreements, an accurate reflection 
> of this moment in the transition to open access, when many, but 
> not all, publishers have moved to a "license to publish" and 
> away from the older and unnecessary copyright transfer 
> agreement.
>
> This is not open access, but definitely a step in the right 
> direction!  (Even if the sentence starting though sometimes 
> not...is just a little obscure).
>
> The STM/PSP/ALPSP position statement was recently posted to 
> Liblicense, 
> at:http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/0803/msg00035.html
>
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> Heather Morrison, MLIS
> The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
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