Re: copyright protection paper

["Sally Morris" <sec-gen@alpsp.org>]

What interests me is what difference, if any, the public domain status of
such works has actually made to their accessibility.  I wonder whether
anyone is studying this?

Sally Morris, Secretary-General
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK

Phone:  01903 871686 Fax:  01903 871457 E-mail:  sec-gen@alpsp.org
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----- 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%20Policies.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
> Pilkington Library, Loughborough University,
> e.a.gadd@lboro.ac.uk