And the percentage of commercial publishers, which dominate in the academic journal field in the UK? I don't have survey data at hand, but the figures are very different...and a majority do require assignment of copyright to publishers, which particularly impacts on young academics and non-super stars who have much less bargaining power over copyright matters.
Alan Story Kent Law School ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stevan Harnad" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 1:43 PM Subject: Re: PostGutenberg Copyrights and Wrongs for Give-Away Research > A recent survey by the (UK) Association of Learned and Professional Society > Publishers showed that a majority (about 70%, from memory) of the journals > surveyed did not insist on outright transfer of copyright; they mostly > asked for it, but would not refuse to publish a paper if the author > insisted on granting only a right of first publication. > > Fytton Rowland. > > > ********************************************************** > Fytton Rowland, M.A., Ph.D., F.I.Inf.Sc., Lecturer, > Deputy Director of Undergraduate Programmes and > Programme Tutor for Publishing with English, > Department of Information Science, > Loughborough University, > Loughborough, Leics LE11 3TU, UK. > > Phone +44 (0) 1509 223039 Fax +44 (0) 1509 223053 > E-mail: [email protected] > http://info.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/staff/frowland.html > ********************************************************** >
