RoMEO Publisher Copyright Transfer policy listing

["Elizabeth Gadd" <E.A.Gadd@lboro.ac.uk>]

Members of this list may be interested in the work of the UK RoMEO Project
which has compiled a list of 80 journal publishers' copyright transfer
agreements with specific regard to whether they allow author
self-archiving:
<http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/index.html>

The purpose of the RoMEO Project, funded by the UK JISC, was to
investigate all the IPR issues relating to the self-archiving of eprints
by academics. One of the principle outputs is the development of some
simple rights metadata by which academics could protect their eprints in
an open-access environment.

We intend to publish 6 studies, 3 of which are already available from the
RoMEO web site's "Deliverables" page.  These include:

o RoMEO Studies 1: The impact of copyright ownership on academic author
  self-archiving
o RoMEO Studies 2: How academics wish to protect their open-access 
  research papers
o RoMEO Studies 3: How academics expect to use open-access research papers

Best wishes
Elizabeth Gadd

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Elizabeth Gadd, Research Associate &
Editor,  Library and Information Research
Department of Information Science
Loughborough University
Loughborough, Leics, LE11 3TU
Tel: +44 (0)1509 222178  Fax: +44 (0)1509 223053
Email: E.A.Gadd@lboro.ac.uk
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