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That used to true a long time ago, but may not be still. Two concepts have developed, at least to me here in Australia. The first is the 'corresponding author'. This is the person that the journal corresponds with, and the journal requires that person to acquire all signatures and assent to the copyright agreement, as well as assent to refereeing changes, galley proofs, etc. The corresponding author is the one the journal regards as primary and legally responsible author. In the case of articles by PhD students, the corresponding author may be them, or may be the supervisor. The second is the 'responsible author'. This is the person responsible for the accuracy of the article, and usually also for complying with the conditions of the grant which funded the research. The responsible author is usually the Chief Investigator listed on the grant application. The university and the research council loads the responsible author with (guess what?) responsibility. This concept transcends inter-institutional research. Having written that, not all research arises from grants. There is still some wriggle room for the 'all authors are equal' view, but it is shrinking. Think also of the 100+ co-authors of some publications. The legal situation would probably be described as that 'all authors must agree since they hold the copyright jointly'. Arthur Sale Tasmania, Australia From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Stephen X. Flynn Sent: Tuesday, 5 February 2013 12:31 PM To: Stevan Harnad Cc: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci); sparc-ir Subject: [GOAL] question about co-authors and self archiving If I may resurrect this question about joint authors. Correct me if I'm wrong, but my assumption is that joint authorship is very much like a joint bank account. You, as the joint account owner, has just as much the ability to withdraw money, write checks, initiate wire transfers, etc as the other account owner. Isn't joint authorship very similar? One co-author has the ability to exercise his or her rights to self-archive the work in an IR (provided the journal's policies allow this). Why should one co-author be able to prevent others from self-archiving? ---- Stephen X. Flynn Emerging Technologies Librarian The College of Wooster Wooster, OH (330) 737-1755 On Dec 4, 2012, at 11:31 AM, Stevan Harnad wrote: On 2012-12-04, at 10:44 AM, Elizabeth Kirk <elizk...@gmail.com> wrote: All, We have a group of faculty very interested in promoting an OA policy for faculty deposit of journal articles. People are very interested in knowing in advance how other institutions with such policies handle cases where one of multiple authors of an article refuses/is not able to allow the posting of an article to an IR. 1. Deposit the article anyway, but set access as Closed Access instead of OA: metadata are OA, article is not. 2. Implement the email-eprint-request Button. Do you . --embargo the deposited article? You can set the Closed Access to elapse after the embargo period, if you wish. . --allow a "pass" and not ingest the article? Definitely do *not* omit the article altogether. Stevan Harnad . --other possible solutions? Thanks so much for your assistance. Please feel free to respond privately. All the best, Eliz Elizabeth E. Kirk Associate Librarian for Information Resources Dartmouth College Library 6025 Baker Library, Rm. 115 Hanover, NH, USA tel: (603) 646-9929 fax: (603) 646-3702 elizabeth.e.k...@dartmouth.edu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SPARC IR" group. To post to this group, send email to sparc...@arl.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sparc-ir+unsubscr...@arl.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/a/arl.org/group/sparc-ir You may need to log in to view the archive. 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