An exclusive license, that prevents an author from exercising their copyright rights, may be "as good" as a copyright transfer as far as a publisher is concerned.
In terms of the statistics you quote, do you know if that covers all types of publishers (for-profit, not-for-profit, societies, etc.), and if so, how does the breakdown correlate with the type of publisher? And how are publishers that publish a variety of closed, open and hybrid journals accounted for? G On 5 February 2014 13:17, Sally Morris <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >
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