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

[Graham Triggs]

An exclusive license, that prevents an author from exercising their
copyright rights, may be "as good" as a copyright transfer as far as a
publisher is concerned.

In terms of the statistics you quote, do you know if that covers all types
of publishers (for-profit, not-for-profit, societies, etc.), and if so, how
does the breakdown correlate with the type of publisher? And how are
publishers that publish a variety of closed, open and hybrid journals
accounted for?

G


On 5 February 2014 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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