[BOAI] UK Open Access Grp statement

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from Neil Jacobs and the UK Open Access Implementation Group
(OAIG).  --Peter Suber.]


* Do you know your publishing rights? *

Recently, some publishers have sought to negotiate directly with
universities and research institutes on the terms and conditions under which
the authors can deposit manuscripts of their own papers into repositories.

The UK Open Access Implementation Group (OAIG) seeks to ensure the widest
possible dissemination of UK research outputs. The OAIG therefore wish to
state our concern with publishers who seek to limit access by imposing
unacceptable embargo periods on the deposit of authors’ manuscripts in
local, institutional or subject-based repositories.

Authors should retain their right to deposit their own manuscripts, and this
right should not be dependent on the later agreements to publish agreed with
publishers. In particular, publishers should not seek to supersede any
agreement between authors and their funders or institutions. These funders
and institutions wish to see wide dissemination, with no artificial delays
or embargoes.

Furthermore, where collective arrangements for licensing exist that can
already cover these issues (such as in the UK with clauses in the JISC
Collections Model Licence), then such direct negotiation with individual
universities is doubly unhelpful and risks undermining those collective
arrangements.

The UK Open Access Implementation Group calls on universities not to enter
into one-to-one negotiations with publishers on self-archiving rights for
their staff, and instead to rely on publicly declared rights as shown on the
Sherpa-RoMEO <http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/> website.

The OAIG membership includes: Guild HE, Universities UK, UCL, Wellcome
Trust, The University of Salford, The University of Edinburgh, SCONUL,
Research Libraries UK, Research Councils UK, Public Library of Science,
JISC, Association of Research Managers and Administrators.

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The OAIG website is at http://www.open-access.org.uk/

best wishes
Neil

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Neil Jacobs<n.jacobs at jisc.ac.uk>
Programme Director, Digital Infrastructure (Information Environment)
JISC Executive, Beacon House, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1QU
+44 (0)117 33 10778 / (0)7841 951303 / skype: neil.jacobs1
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