<div dir="ltr"><div><div>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.<br><br></div>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?<br>
<br></div>G<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 February 2014 13:17, Sally Morris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk" target="_blank">sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I find Andrew's experience surprising. When Cox & Cox last looked into this<br>
(in 2008), 53% of publishers requested a copyright transfer, 20.8% asked for<br>
a licence to publish instead, and 6.6% did not require any written<br>
agreement. A further 19.6%, though initially asking for transfer of<br>
copyright, would on request provide a licence document instead. There had<br>
been a steady move away from transfer of copyright since 2003.<br>
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Sally<br>
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From: <a href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org">goal-bounces@eprints.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org">goal-bounces@eprints.org</a>] On Behalf<br>
Of Andrew A. Adams<br>
Sent: 05 February 2014 00:04<br>
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)<br>
Subject: [GOAL] Re: Charles Oppenheim on who owns the rights to scholarly<br>
articles<br>
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Chris Zielinski <<a href="mailto:ziggytheblue@gmail.com">ziggytheblue@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> But even more prudent authors simply shouldn't sign the copyright<br>
> assignment form - publishers don't need anything more than a licence<br>
> to publish.<br>
<br>
Good luck with that if you're anything other than a tenured professor with a<br>
track record that means where your recent papers are published won't effect<br>
funding decisions (individually or for your univesity). I tried to apply<br>
this rule myself a few years ago and after a couple of occasions of getting<br>
nowhere with the publishers decided that doing this individually was just<br>
harming my career and not having any impact on the journals.<br>
<br>
Now, I just "archive and be damned"posting the author's final text (not the<br>
publisher PDF) in open depot ignoring any embargoes. If any publisher<br>
bothered to issue a take-down I'd reset to closed access (and always respond<br>
to button requests). None have so far.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Professor Andrew A Adams <a href="mailto:aaa@meiji.ac.jp">aaa@meiji.ac.jp</a><br>
Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy<br>
Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics<br>
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan <a href="http://www.a-cubed.info/" target="_blank">http://www.a-cubed.info/</a><br>
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