Interestingly, 2003 converges with the initial years of the open access movement...
Paul ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sally Morris [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 8:17 AM To: 'Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)' Subject: [GOAL] Re: Charles Oppenheim on who owns the rights to scholarly articles I find Andrew's experience surprising. When Cox & Cox last looked into this (in 2008), 53% of publishers requested a copyright transfer, 20.8% asked for a licence to publish instead, and 6.6% did not require any written agreement. A further 19.6%, though initially asking for transfer of copyright, would on request provide a licence document instead. There had been a steady move away from transfer of copyright since 2003. Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286 Email: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew A. Adams Sent: 05 February 2014 00:04 To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Charles Oppenheim on who owns the rights to scholarly articles Chris Zielinski <[email protected]> wrote: > But even more prudent authors simply shouldn't sign the copyright > assignment form - publishers don't need anything more than a licence > to publish. Good luck with that if you're anything other than a tenured professor with a track record that means where your recent papers are published won't effect funding decisions (individually or for your univesity). I tried to apply this rule myself a few years ago and after a couple of occasions of getting nowhere with the publishers decided that doing this individually was just harming my career and not having any impact on the journals. Now, I just "archive and be damned"posting the author's final text (not the publisher PDF) in open depot ignoring any embargoes. If any publisher bothered to issue a take-down I'd reset to closed access (and always respond to button requests). None have so far. -- Professor Andrew A Adams [email protected] Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/ _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
