some clarifications from<a href="http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2011/09/30/really-what-has-princeton-done/" title="Really, what has Princeton done?" rel="bookmark"> Really, what has Princeton done?</a>
<em><span class="sword">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/author/ksmithl2duke-edu/" title="Posts by Kevin Smith, J.D." rel="author">Kevin Smith, J.D</a></span></span></em>, Duke University’s Scholarly Communications Officer:<br>
<br>"In all such policies the university is given a license in the works that
is prior to any copyright transfer to a publisher. Technically,
therefore, the rights that are transferred are subject to that license...The differences amongst universities regarding these policies come in
implementation. Some universities may elect to act in a way that is
contrary to the terms of the publication agreements the authors enter
into (by posting articles or versions of articles where the publication
agreement purports not to permit the specific posting). Doing so would
seem to be legally permissible under the claim of a prior license, but
it could also put the faculty members in a difficult position unless
they are very careful about what they sign (as they should be but seldom
are). An alternative is for the university to exercise the license in a
more nuanced way, taking into account the various publisher policies as
much as possible. That, of course, makes open access repositories much
more labor-intensive and difficult, especially as publishers <a href="http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2011/07/07/what-a-mess/">change their policies to try a thwart these expressions of authorial rights</a>. How Princeton will actually implement its policy is still an open question...<br>
<p>Probably the most important fact about these policies, indeed, is
that they represent an assertion of authorial control. We so often hear
publishers and others in the content industry talk about protecting
copyright, by which they usually mean the rights they hold by assignment
from a creator, that it is salutary to remind academics that <strong><em>they</em></strong>
own copyright in their scholarship from the moment their original
expression is fixed in tangible form. Transferring those rights to a
publisher is one option they have, and it has become a tradition. But
it is only one option, and the tradition is beginning to be questioned,
as <a href="http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=417576&c=1">this recent article from Times Higher Education</a> and <a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/09/30/planned_obsolescence_by_kathleen_fitzpatrick_proposes_alternatives_to_outmoded_academic_journals">this one from Inside Higher Ed</a> forcibly demonstrate.<a href="http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=417576&c=1"><br>
</a></p>
<p>Open access policies are not, at their root, either “land grabs” by
institutions or acts of defiance aimed at publishers. They are simply a
recognition of the fact that authors are the initial owners of
copyright, and they express a desire by those owners to manage their
rights intentionally and in a way that most clearly benefits the goals
of scholarship."</p>(<a href="http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2011/09/30/really-what-has-princeton-done/">http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2011/09/30/really-what-has-princeton-done/</a>)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On 2 October 2011 16:36, P. Kangueane PhD <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kangueane@bioinformation.net">kangueane@bioinformation.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Interesting question and it should be thought deeply.<br>
<br>
Kangueane<br>
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</div>Subject: [BOAI] Re: Like its Harvard model,Princeton OA Policy needs to add<br>
<div class="im">immediate-deposit requirement,with no waiver option<br>
</div>Importance: High<br>
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I believe that the 'copyright' means nothing without the 'publishing'<br>
rights.<br>
<br>
Is this right?<br>
<br>
Allen<br>
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Subject: [BOAI] Like its Harvard model, Princeton OA Policy needs to add<br>
immediate-deposit requirement, with no waiver option<br>
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On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Rick Anderson <<a href="mailto:rick.anderson@utah.edu">rick.anderson@utah.edu</a>><br>
wrote:<br>
>>This information comes courtesy of the IFLA copyright programme.=20<br>
>>Are Princeton's essentially the same terms/conditions as the=20<br>
>>Harvard Mandate?<br>
><br>
> It looks like this is indeed just another non-mandatory=20 "mandate."<br>
> The language about each faculty member automatically=20 granting<br>
> Princeton a non-exclusive license to "exercise any and=20 all<br>
> copyrights in his or her scholarly articles published in any=20<br>
> medium," etc., is then followed by this important qualifier:=20 "Upon<br>
> the express direction of a Faculty member, the Provost or=20 the<br>
> Provost=B9s designate will waive or suspend application of this=20<br>
> license for a particular article authored or co-authored by that=20<br>
> Faculty member."<br>
><br>
> So in other words, it's not an OA mandate, but rather an OA=20<br>
> "mandate." You're bound by it unless you ask not to be, in which=20<br>
> case you're not.<br>
<br>
1. First, congratulations to Princeton University (my graduate alma<br>
mater!) for adopting an open access mandate: a copyright-reservation policy,<br>
adopted by unanimous faculty vote.<br>
<a href="http://roarmap.eprints.org/520/" target="_blank">http://roarmap.eprints.org/520/</a><br>
<br>
2. Princeton is following in the footsteps of Harvard in adopting the<br>
copyright-reservation policy pioneered by Stuart Shieber and Peter Suber.<br>
<a href="http://roarmap.eprints.org/75/" target="_blank">http://roarmap.eprints.org/75/</a><br>
<br>
4. I hope that Princeton will now also follow in the footsteps of Harvard by<br>
adding an immediate-deposit requirement with no waiver option to its<br>
copyright-reservation mandate, as Harvard has done.<br>
<a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/545-guid.html" target="_blank">http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/545-guid.html</a><br>
<br>
5. The Princeton copyright-reservation policy, like the Harvard<br>
copyright-reservation policy, can be waived if the author wishes: This is to<br>
allow authors to retain the freedom to choose where to publish, even if the<br>
journal does not agree to the copyright-reservation.<br>
<br>
6. Adding an immediate-deposit clause, with no opt-out waiver option,<br>
retains all the properties and benefits of the copyright-reservation policy<br>
while ensuring that all articles are nevertheless deposited in the<br>
institutional repository upon publication, with no exceptions:<br>
Access to the deposited article can be embargoed, but deposit itself cannot;<br>
access is a copyright matter, deposit is not.<br>
<a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/364-guid.html" target="_blank">http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/364-guid.html</a><br>
<br>
7. Depositing all articles upon publication, without exception, is crucial<br>
to reaching 100% open access with certainty, and as soon as possible; hence<br>
it is the right example to set for the many other universities worldwide<br>
that are now contemplating emulating Harvard and Princeton by adopting open<br>
access policies of their own; copyright reservation alone, with opt-out, is<br>
not.<br>
<a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/494-guid.html" target="_blank">http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/494-guid.html</a><br>
<br>
8. The reason it is imperative that the deposit clause must be immediate and<br>
without a waiver option is that, without that, both when and whether<br>
articles are deposited at all is indeterminate: With the added deposit<br>
requirement the policy is a mandate; without it, it is just a<br>
gentleman/scholar's agreement.<br>
<br>
[Footnote: Princeton's open access policy is also unusual in having been<br>
adopted before Princeton has created an open access repository for its<br>
authors to deposit in: It might be a good idea to create the repository as<br>
soon as possible so Princeton authors can get into the habit of practising<br>
what they pledge from the outset...]<br>
<br>
Stevan Harnad<br>
EnablingOpenScholarship<br>
<a href="http://www.openscholarship.org/" target="_blank">http://www.openscholarship.org/</a><br>
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