RoMEO studies 4: an analysis of journal publishers' copyright agreements
Authors: Gadd, Elizabeth; Oppenheim, Charles; Probets, Steve
Source: Learned Publishing, Volume 16, Number 4, 1 October 2003 , pp. 293-308(16)
Publisher: Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
Abstract:
This article is the fourth in a series of six emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open archiving). It describes an analysis of 80 scholarly journal publishers' copyright agreements with a particular view to their effect on author self-archiving: 90% of agreements asked for copyright transfer and 69% asked for it prior to refereeing the paper; 75% asked authors to warrant that their work had not been previously published although only two explicitly stated that they viewed self-archiving as prior publication; 28.5% of agreements provided authors with no usage rights over their own paper. Although 42.5% allowed self-archiving in some format, there was no consensus on the conditions under which self-archiving could take place. The article concludes that author-publisher copyright agreements should be reconsidered by a working party representing the needs of both parties.Document Type: Research article
DOI: 10.1087/095315103322422053
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