Re: copyright protection paper

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btopenworld.com>]

There must be something wrong with these figures. In the UK and US
government scientists cannot sign copyright transfer forms and ALL
publishers have to make special arrangements. If only 57.5% allow for this
eventuality with a special clause it must mean that the remaining
percentage have a separate agreement as indeed I know many publishers do.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lizzie Gadd" <E.A.Gadd@lboro.ac.uk>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: copyright protection paper

> Having just performed an analysis of 80 journal publishers' copyright
> transfer agreements and licences as part of the RoMEO project, I was
> surprised at the ALPSP survey findings wrt the number of publishers
> allowing self-archiving.  According to our current list of publisher
> self-archiving policies at
>
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/Romeo%20Publisher%20
Policies.htm
> just 42.5% of publishers allow self-archiving of any kind.  That breaks
> down into 25% allowing self-archiving of both pre and post-print, 8.7%
> allowing pre-print only, and 8.7% allowing post-print only.  We found that
> some publishers' general policy statements said they allowed
> self-archiving, whilst their actual copyright agreements said that they
> did not.  I wonder whether this is what we are seeing in the ALPSP
> findings?
>
> With regard to US Govt-owned works, we found that 57.5% of agreements
> recognised that manuscripts may belong in this category by virtue of a
> specific clause.  This illustrates that many publishers are willing/able
> to live with a parallel publication system where a work is both in the
> public domain and published in a peer-reviewed vehicle.  The full-text of
> an article (soon to appear in Learned Publishing) based on our analysis is
> available on the Project RoMEO web pages at:
>
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/RoMEO%20Studies%204.
pdf
>
> Best
> Elizabeth Gadd
> e.a.gadd@lboro.ac.uk