Subject: Re: PostGutenberg Copyrights and Wrongs for Give-Away Research From: Stevan Harnad <harnad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 21:20:04 +0000 (GMT) |
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, [identity deleted] wrote: > In some of the copyright-ceding forms researchers sign when publishing in a > refereed journal, there are special exemptions for researchers carrying out > US government-supported research. > > Do you know, whether these researchers are only ceding certain components of > the copyright, and if this is the case, which components they are retaining? Government researchers are contractually forbidden to transfer copyright for their research reports, so they simply license the right to publish and sell to the publisher, as in the Nature license: http://npg.nature.com/pdf/05_news.pdf There is no reason all authors of refereed research articles should not do the same; but there is also no need. If they retain the self-archiving right, that is sufficient; http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/Romeo%20Publisher%20Policies.htm And even with the most restrictive copyright tranfer agreement, there are legal ways to achieve almost the same outcome: http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#publisher-forbids Copyright is a nonproblem: The only problem is researchers' own sluggishness in providing open-access to their give-away research by self-archiving it. Momentum is growing, however, and the outcome is inevitable (and optimal for research and researchers). Stevan Harnad
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