There is an error in the phrase Marc identifies in the Introduction to my article (p 5). The figure 26% should read 47%; I apologise that this error slipped through.
However, Fig 12 in the same article (p14) clearly shows the trend as described in my previous posting. The actual figures from Cox & Cox's original study are as follows: 'In 2003, 83% of publishers required copyright transfer, in 2005 the figure stood at 61%. In 2008 this has dropped to 53%, and those which only require a licence to publish has increased from 17% to 20.8%.' I hope this helps Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286 Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Couture Marc Sent: 09 October 2012 18:16 To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Europe PubMed as a home for all RCUK research outputs? Sally Morris wrote : > > In their 2008 study, [Cox & Cox] found just over 50% of publishers > asking for copyright transfer in the first instance [...]; of these, > a further 20% would provide a 'licence to publish' as an alternative > if requested by the author. At the same time, the number offering a > licence in the first instance had grown to around 20% by 2008. So > that's nearly 90%, by my reckoning, who either don't ask for (c) in > the first place, or will provide a licence instead on request. > As has been pointed out, Cox & Cox article is not OA, so I can't check the source, but I haven't been able to reconcile these figures with Sally's account of that study: http://www.publishingresearch.net/documents/JournalAuthorsRights.pdf: > > 26% of publishers no longer require authors to transfer copyright, and > a further 21% will offer a 'licence to publish' > instead of a copyright transfer > This seems to mean that about 50% (not 90%) of publishers don't require copyright transfer. Can Sally explain this (apparent) discrepancy? But anyway, the fact is those who don't require copyright transfer most generally ask for a license, often exclusive, whose terms may be as (or no more) generous as those of copyright transfer agreements. So the issue is not mainly if authors keep their copyright or not (although this bears a strong symbolic dimension), but what reuse rights they keep according to the agreement they are asked to sign. Marc Couture _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
