QUESTION: Do authors who publish in an American Physical Society journal and sign the APS copyright transfer agreement have the legal right to post the APS-formatted versions of their articles on their own or their department's Web servers if these servers are OIA compliant?
CONTEXT: I'm preparing a talk in which I plan to refer to APS copyright policy and want to be sure I interpret it correctly. TRANSFER AGREEMENT: Here are the relevant parts of the copyright transfer agreement from http://forms.aps.org/author/copytrnsfr.asc: The author(s) shall have the following rights:... (3) The right, after publication by APS, to use all or part of the Article without revision or modification, including the APS-formatted version, in personal compilations or other publications of the author's own works, including the author's personal web home page, and to make copies of all or part of the Article for the author's use for lecture or classroom purposes. (4) The right to post and update the Article on e-print servers as long as files prepared and/or formatted by APS or its vendors are not used for that purpose. Any such posting made or updated after acceptance of the Article for publication shall include a link to the online abstract in the APS journal or to the entry page of the journal. Tom Walker ============================================ Thomas J. Walker Department of Entomology & Nematology PO Box 110620 (or Natural Area Drive) University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-0620 E-mail: [email protected] (or [email protected]) FAX: (352)392-0190 Web: http://csssrvr.entnem.ufl.edu/~walker/ ============================================
