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

[Gail Clement <gclement@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello again Nora and other colleagues,

Just wanted to share our experience that an increasing number of journal
publishers or journal editors permit the inclusion of published articles in
the ETD that goes to the Repository.   We are seeing more and more Copyright
Transfer Agreements that automatically give back to the student author the
right to include the paper in the ETD as long as it is going to a
not-for-profit distribution system like the IR. And articles that get
published via Open Access journals present no problem whatsoever, since the
author retains copyright.

Our copyright education programs for graduate students are teaching the ETD
authors to review their publishing agreements to look for clauses allowing
them to include their own articles in their ETDs.  Even commercial publishers
like Elsevier now provide contracts containing such ETD-friendly language.

However, raising that same awareness among faculty advisers (who often serve
as corresponding author on the journal article and hence are the ones to sign
the publishing agreement) is a greater challenge!

Best regards,

Gail Clement


Gail P. Clement
Scholarly Communications Librarian & Associate Professor
Digital Services and Scholarly Communication
University Libraries
Texas A&M University
gclement@xxxxxxxx

5000 TAMU | College Station, TX 77843-5000 | 
Tel. 979.862.1635 | Fax. 979.845.6238  
http://library.tamu.edu





-----Original Message-----
From: Nora Allred [mailto:nsallred@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 2:03 PM
To: digital-copyright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [digital-copyright] Re: Copyright protected works used in ETD and
made accessible via institutional repository

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