Alex Leavitt <[email protected]> writes: >“The University authorizes professors to post copies of their articles >on their own web sites or on University web sites, or in other >not-for-a-fee venues,” the policy said. > >“The main effect of this new policy is to prevent them from giving >away all their rights when they publish in a journal.” > >Very interesting, strange approach. This might actually restrict where >professors can publish their work, if the journal doesn't agree to >these terms. And I'm not certain if Princeton is enforcing that >professors must abide by this -- which would be an interesting stage, >where professors have to argue to opt-out of open access (not that >that would be a good thing...).
It's an odd strategy, yeah. After all, why not just require free licensing, and never mind who the copyright holder is? Alternatively: require publishing under a free license *if* copyright is being transferred to the journal. Then it doesn't matter that neither the author nor Princeton has copyright ownership -- they (and everyone else) would still have all the rights they need for open access. -Karl _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
