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

[Sally Morris]

I find Andrew's experience surprising.  When Cox & Cox last looked into this
(in 2008), 53% of publishers requested a copyright transfer, 20.8% asked for
a licence to publish instead, and 6.6% did not require any written
agreement.  A further 19.6%, though initially asking for transfer of
copyright, would on request provide a licence document instead.  There had
been a steady move away from transfer of copyright since 2003.

Sally
 


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-----Original Message-----
From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf
Of Andrew A. Adams
Sent: 05 February 2014 00:04
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
Subject: [GOAL] Re: Charles Oppenheim on who owns the rights to scholarly
articles

 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/


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