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

[Jan Velterop]

Sally,

Percentages, unfortunately, don't always mean much. I haven't read the Cox & Cox report, but it would be interesting to know if the four largest publishers – less than half a percent of publishers, yet together having a market share of perhaps as much as two thirds of the scholarly literature – are in the 53% mentioned, or not (or even in the 6.6% not requiring any written agreement, albeit most unlikely). It would make all the difference.

Jan

On 5 Feb 2014, at 13:17, Sally Morris <sally at morris-assocs.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 
> Sally Morris
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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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