Re: renegotiating licenses

[Lois Widmer <widmer@brandeis.edu>]

Hi Matthew,

I'm very interested in this subject.

Using PubMed Central as my first target, I've developed a list of 
the core journals in which some science faculty publish with an 
eye to modifying our license agreements or making arrangements to 
allow deposit in our recently launched institutional repository. 
Fortunately, a number of the publications already allow archiving 
of the publishers' PDFs or a post-print, according to SHERPA 
RoMEO.  Next targets include arXive, Repec, citeSeer and 
Scientific Commons, although I don't think any of these 
repositories offer the convenient download of metadata and full 
text that our combined PubMed/PubMed Central does.

Lois Widmer


Matthew Person wrote:

> Subject:  Renegotiating licenses for serials to allow author 
> posting and depositing in institutional repository and personal 
> website of published version upon initial journal publication.
>
> I am looking for comments from anyone who is interested in this 
> subject or has experience in trying to make the above goal a 
> reality in their negotiated serials licenses.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Matthew Person