RE: Posting Electronic Copies of Papers published by our Institute

["David Goodman" <David.Goodman@liu.edu>]

Please note also that this is to be an internal network, and many
publishers policies towards these are and have been considerably more
liberal than their policies towards posting them on a site accessible to
the public.  I do not think the Romeo table makes that distinction,
because at this point most people are concerned about general access; any
publisher that permits this certainly also permits internal access. For
the others, in my experience the best place to find the information is in
the information for authors section of the publishers home page.

Associate Professor
Palmer School of Library and Information Science
Long Island University
dgoodman@liu.edu

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To:	Electronic Content Licensing Discussion
Subject: Re: Posting Electronic Copies of Papers published by our 
Institute

Jennifer Vigil <jvigil@burnham.org> wrote:

> Our president would like to maintain a database of papers published by
> authors at our Institute. He would like to post PDFs of all articles
> published and have them available internally on our intranet.  We do have
> the Electronic Amendment from CCC which might cover papers that are
> published in journals to which we have an electronic subscription, but for
> papers published in journals to which we don't subscribe hasn't the author
> signed over copyright? I don't think this is legal unless the author
> obtains permission from the publisher each time they publish a paper,
> however I'm trying to find something in writing that states this.

The Romeo table lists publishers' policies on institutional archiving of
their own published articles:

    http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php

another version of the Romeo table is under construction that will list
the information by journal as well as publisher, and colour-code it more
simply:

    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/Romeo/romeo.html

Note that if the publisher does not allow the use of its own PDF, there is
always the option of using the author's own refereed, accepted, final
draft.

Stevan Harnad