[digital-copyright] Re: Copyright protected works used in ETD and made accessible via institutional repository

[Nora Allred <nsallred@xxxxxxx>]

Dear Colleagues,

Thank you very much for the response so far.  You have given me some good
insights to share with my IR colleagues.  As a STEM university we see many
theses which are composed of the thesis author's previously published (in
journals) research.  In these cases the student always obtains permission
to reuse the article from the journal publisher (rights holder).  Do the
same considerations apply here when thinking about the IR?  Making what is
essentially three or four published articles open access as a thesis?  My
knee-jerk response would be "um, no," But my knee-jerk just doesn't carry
the weight it used to, so I turn to you, learned colleagues.

(And many thanks for the ETD-L list, I have joined and am checking out the
archives now.)

With Many Thanks,
Nora


On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Nora Allred <nsallred@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> We are setting up our institutional repository and encountered a question
> from a student about copyright permission and making his thesis open
> access.  The student's thesis contains copyright protected work.
>  Permission was obtained and documented for the work to appear in the
> thesis.  Can the student make the thesis open access for the institutional
> repository without requesting permission for the specific use of the IR
> (which is open access?)  Is the institution at risk by putting any
> thesis/dissertation into the IR without checking the permissions first?  Or
> does the original rights holder assume that their content will be
> subsequently copied (either through OA or the selling of copies of the
> thesis through a publisher) without royalty?
>
> Any insights would be very much appreciated.  Thank you in advance for
> your consideration.
>
> Sincerley,
> Nora Allred
>
> --
> Nora Allred
> Reference & Copyright Librarian
> Interlibrary Loan Coordinator (EZT, za007)
> J. R. Van Pelt and Opie Library
> Michigan Technological University
> Houghton, MI 49931
> 906-487-3208
>



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Nora Allred
Reference & Copyright Librarian
Interlibrary Loan Coordinator (EZT, za007)
J. R. Van Pelt and Opie Library
Michigan Technological University
Houghton, MI 49931
906-487-3208