[GOAL] Re: Charles Oppenheim on who owns the rights to scholarly articles

[Andrew A. Adams]

 Chris Zielinski <ziggytheblue at gmail.com> wrote:
> But even more prudent authors simply shouldn't sign the
> copyright assignment form - publishers don't need anything
> more than a licence to publish.

Good luck with that if you're anything other than a tenured professor with a 
track record that means where your recent papers are published won't effect 
funding decisions (individually or for your univesity). I tried to apply this 
rule myself a few years ago and after a couple of occasions of getting 
nowhere with the publishers decided that doing this individually was just 
harming my career and not having any impact on the journals.

Now, I just "archive and be damned"posting the author's final text (not the 
publisher PDF) in open depot ignoring any embargoes. If any publisher 
bothered to issue a take-down I'd reset to closed access (and always respond 
to button requests). None have so far.

-- 
Professor Andrew A Adams                      aaa at meiji.ac.jp
Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/