Posting vendors' PDFs

One factor must surely be what permission exactly the
publisher 
has granted to the author and his/her institution.  If the 
publisher has specified that the author's typescript may be

posted in the repository (with or without incorporating
final 
corrections due to peer review), then permission has not
been 
granted to mount a PDF - whether the publisher's or an 
intermediary's. The publisher may, very understandably,
feel that 
a PDF which looks exactly like the published version is 
significantly more threatening to its own sales than is
something 
that looks like a typescript

If the publisher has explicitly permitted the author to
mount the 
final PDF, in my experience the publisher usually provides
this 
to the author.  It's a fair guess that if the publisher has
not 
provided the PDF file, it's because it has not permitted
this 
version to be posted.

I should be interested to hear others' views on what rights

publishers grant to aggregators have to allow re-posting of
PDFs 
- my guess would be, that they have none.  As to any other
rights 
in the aggregator's PDF version, I'm not sure - that could
vary 
according to the agreement with the publisher, I'd guess.


Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13
3UU, UK
Email:  sally.morrisalpsp.org

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>>From another list ... of possible interest (and
response) to
> readers of liblicense-l?  Ann Okerson
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 10:49:38 -0400
> From: Richard Griscom <griscompobox.upenn.edu>
> To: SPARC Institutional Repositories Discussion List
<SPARC-IRarl.org>
> Subject: [SPARC-IR] Posting vendors' PDFs
>
> The following question came up in a recent meeting of
the 
> repository oversight group at Penn: Do vendors retain 
> proprietary rights over the PDF files they prepare for 
> full-text databases? For example, if we receive
permission from 
> Publisher Y to mount Professor X's paper in our
repository, may 
> we use a PDF created by Project Muse or JSTOR in lieu
of 
> scanning the article ourselves?  Do these vendors
exercise 
> rights over the use of the PDFs that they have
prepared?
>
> Best,
> Richard Griscom
>
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