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Re: Posting vendors' PDFs

One factor must surely be what permission exactly the publisher has granted to the author and his/her institution. If the publisher has specified that the author's typescript may be posted in the repository (with or without incorporating final corrections due to peer review), then permission has not been granted to mount a PDF - whether the publisher's or an intermediary's. The publisher may, very understandably, feel that a PDF which looks exactly like the published version is significantly more threatening to its own sales than is something that looks like a typescript

If the publisher has explicitly permitted the author to mount the final PDF, in my experience the publisher usually provides this to the author. It's a fair guess that if the publisher has not provided the PDF file, it's because it has not permitted this version to be posted.

I should be interested to hear others' views on what rights publishers grant to aggregators have to allow re-posting of PDFs - my guess would be, that they have none. As to any other rights in the aggregator's PDF version, I'm not sure - that could vary according to the agreement with the publisher, I'd guess.


Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK
Email: sally.morris@alpsp.org

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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

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