Is Author's Rights going too far, as a couple of recent
commenters have suggested - or, are liberal author's rights
rapidly becoming an industry standard?
The recent statement on the topic by the STM / PSP / ALPSP
groups
suggests the latter, that the emerging standard in the
industry
is liberal copyright which leaves most rights with the
author.
From the Statement:
Standard journal agreements typically allow authors:
* To use their published paper in their own teaching and
generally
within their institution for educational purposes
* To send copies to their research colleagues
* To re-use portions of their paper in further works or
book
chapters, and
* To post some version of the paper on a pre-print server,
their
Institutional Repository or a personal web site (though
sometimes not
for the weekly news-oriented science or medical magazines,
for public
health and similar reasons)
It is also noteworthy that the language refers to grants of
copyright or publishing agreements, an accurate reflection
of
this moment in the transition to open access, when many, but
not
all, publishers have moved to a "license to
publish" and away
from the older and unnecessary copyright transfer
agreement.
This is not open access, but definitely a step in the right
direction! (Even if the sentence starting though sometimes
not...is just a little obscure).
The STM/PSP/ALPSP position statement was recently posted to
Liblicense, at:
http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListA
rchives/0803/msg00035.html
Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is that of the author
alone,
and does not represent the opinion or policy of BC
Electronic
Library Network or Simon Fraser University Library.
Heather Morrison, MLIS
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
http://poeticecon
omics.blogspot.com
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