RE: Posting vendors' PDFs

[Liblicense-L Listowner <liblicen@pantheon.yale.edu>]

Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 10:04:48 +0100
From: "Mcsean, Tony (ELS)" <T.Mcsean@elsevier.com>
Subject: RE: Posting vendors' PDFs

I can only speak for Elsevier, but our authors' agreement 
includes the right to post the final, published version on a 
personal or institutional web site, but not the PDF version. 
Our website's FAQ on internet posting reads as follows:

"You can post your version of your article on your personal web 
page or the web site of your institution, provided that you 
include a link to the journal's home page or the article's DOI 
and include a complete citation for the article.  This means that 
you can update your version (e.g. the Word or Tex form) to 
reflect changes made during the peer review and editing process".

A useful summary of the broader situation is on our web site at:

http://elsevier.com/wps/find/supportfaq.cws_home/rightsasanauthor

Tony McSean
Director of Library Relations
Elsevier

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Subject: Posting vendors' PDFs

> From another list ... of possible interest (and response) to
readers of liblicense-l?  Ann Okerson

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Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 10:49:38 -0400
From: Richard Griscom <griscom@pobox.upenn.edu>
To: SPARC Institutional Repositories Discussion List <SPARC-IR@arl.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