[GOAL] Re: question about co-authors and self archiving

Tue Feb 5 21:49:38 GMT 2013

Stephen

That used to true a long time ago, but may not be still.  Two concepts have
developed, at least to me here in Australia.

The first is the 'corresponding author'. This is the person that the journal
corresponds with, and the journal requires that person to acquire all
signatures and assent to the copyright agreement, as well as assent to
refereeing changes, galley proofs, etc. The corresponding author is the one
the journal regards as primary and legally responsible author. In the case
of articles by PhD students, the corresponding author may be them, or may be
the supervisor.

The second is the 'responsible author'. This is the person responsible for
the accuracy of the article, and usually also for complying with the
conditions of the grant which funded the research. The responsible author is
usually the Chief Investigator listed on the grant application. The
university and the research council loads the responsible author with (guess
what?) responsibility.  This concept transcends inter-institutional
research.

Having written that, not all research arises from grants. There is still
some wriggle room for the 'all authors are equal' view, but it is shrinking.
Think also of the 100+ co-authors of some publications. The legal situation
would probably be described as that 'all authors must agree since they hold
the copyright jointly'.

Arthur Sale

Tasmania, Australia

From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf
Of Stephen X. Flynn
Sent: Tuesday, 5 February 2013 12:31 PM
To: Stevan Harnad
Cc: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci); sparc-ir
Subject: [GOAL] question about co-authors and self archiving

If I may resurrect this question about joint authors.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but my assumption is that joint authorship is very
much like a joint bank account. You, as the joint account owner, has just as
much the ability to withdraw money, write checks, initiate wire transfers,
etc as the other account owner. Isn't joint authorship very similar? One
co-author has the ability to exercise his or her rights to self-archive the
work in an IR (provided the journal's policies allow this). Why should one
co-author be able to prevent others from self-archiving?

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Stephen X. Flynn

Emerging Technologies Librarian

The College of Wooster

Wooster, OH

(330) 737-1755

On Dec 4, 2012, at 11:31 AM, Stevan Harnad wrote:

On 2012-12-04, at 10:44 AM, Elizabeth Kirk <elizkirk at gmail.com> wrote:

All,

We have a group of faculty very interested in promoting an OA policy

for faculty deposit of journal articles. People are very interested in
knowing

in advance how other institutions with such policies handle cases where one

of multiple authors of an article refuses/is not able to allow the posting
of an article to an IR.

1. Deposit the article anyway, but set access as Closed Access

instead of OA: metadata are OA, article is not.

2. Implement the email-eprint-request Button.

 Do you

 .         --embargo the deposited article?

You can set the Closed Access to elapse after the embargo period, if you
wish.

.         --allow a "pass" and not ingest the article?

Definitely do *not* omit the article altogether.

Stevan Harnad

.         --other possible solutions?

Thanks so much for your assistance. Please feel free to respond privately.

All the best,

Eliz

Elizabeth E. Kirk

Associate Librarian for Information Resources

Dartmouth College Library

6025 Baker Library, Rm. 115

Hanover, NH, USA

tel: (603) 646-9929

fax: (603) 646-3702

elizabeth.e.kirk at dartmouth.edu

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