<font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">[Forwarding from Neil Jacobs and the UK Open Access Implementation Group (OAIG). --Peter Suber.]<br></font></font><br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">* Do you know your publishing rights? *<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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 <<a href="http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/" target="_blank">http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/</a>> website.<br>
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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.<br>
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The OAIG website is at <a href="http://www.open-access.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.open-access.org.uk/</a><br>
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best wishes<br>
Neil<br><font color="#888888">
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Neil Jacobs<<a href="mailto:n.jacobs@jisc.ac.uk" target="_blank">n.jacobs@jisc.ac.uk</a>><br>
Programme Director, Digital Infrastructure (Information Environment)<br>
JISC Executive, Beacon House, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1QU<br>
+44 (0)117 33 10778 / (0)7841 951303 / skype: neil.jacobs1<br>
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