** Apologies for Cross-Posting **
GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED CORNELL WOULD-BE SELF-ARCHIVER
Cornell's copyright pages
http://www
.copyright.cornell.edu/index.htm
are numerous and confusing because they take a scatter-shot
approach to everything, from Cornell user rights for the use
of
other people's work to the negotiation of rights for
Cornell
authors' own work.
In all of this, it is next to impossible for a would-be
self-archiving author to figure out what Cornell's legal
experts
advise regarding depositing their peer-reviewed articles in
Cornell's Institutional Repository (IR).
http://archives.eprints.org/?actio
n=search&query=cornell&submit=Search
(If anyone has managed to pinpoint Cornell's position on
that,
within that copious Cornell copyloquy, I would be grateful
if
they would excerpt it for us. Otherwise, all I find is
advice
that I should retain as many rights as possible, which is
fine,
but does not answer the question of a would-be
self-archiver,
trying to decide whether I have the right to self-archive
*this*
paper, *now*.)
Fortunately, the answer to that question is available even
without having to find one's way through Cornell's
cornucopia,
and it is this (the "Immediate Deposit, Optional
Access" policy,
ID/OA):
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/
71-guid.html
(1) Deposit all your final, peer-reviewed, accepted
drafts (postprints)
in Cornell's IR immediately upon acceptance for
publication.
(2) Set access to the postprint as Open Access
immediately if it is
published in one of the 69% of journals that are
already green on
postprint self-archiving.
http://romeo.eprin
ts.org/stats.php
(3) Otherwise provisionally set access to the postprint
as Closed
Access and notify the journal that you will set access
as Open
Access on [Date, one month from today] if you do not
hear anything
to the contrary.
(4) During any Closed Access interval, make sure
Cornell's
IR has the EMAIL EPRINT REQUEST button to handle any
individual requests for a single email copy -- Fair Use
-- from would-be users who see the postprint's openly
accessible metadata:
http://wiki.dspace
.org/RequestCopy
http://www.eprints.org/news/features/request_button.php
Now go ahead and deposit, without any further hesitation,
immediately. And
negotiate copyright retention, or postprint-self-archiving
rights whenever
you can.
Stevan Harnad
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Ann Okerson wrote:
> Of possible interest to readers of this list.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
> ONLINE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
>
> Tuesday, September 19, 2006
>
> Cornell U. Creates Guidelines on Electronic Reserves to
Avoid Copyright
> Problems
>
> By JEFFREY R. YOUNG
>
> To avoid potential legal action by the Association of
American Publishers,
> Cornell University issued guidelines for professors
this month on how to
> place materials on electronic reserve without violating
copyright law.
>
> The guidelines were jointly written with officials from
the publishing
> group in a process that began in April, after the group
sent a letter to
> the university complaining that it suspected widespread
copyright
> violations on the campus.
>
> "The university has sought to resolve this matter
in a manner that
> protects the faculty's legitimate interests while
averting the threat of
> litigation," the university's provost, Biddy
Martin, wrote in a memorandum
> to academic deans. The letter, dated September 6, asks
the deans to
> distribute the guidelines to professors.
>
> [SNIP]
>
> Cornell posted the guidelines and the fair-use
checklist on its Web
> site, www.copyright.cornell.edu
>
> Copyright 2006, The Chronicle of Higher Education
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