OA monographs

[Brian Simboli <brs4@lehigh.edu>]

(cross-posted)

A question that I posed to another listserv, but that might be 
germane to soaf and liblicense.

Is there is an OA movement, akin to the "green rights movement" 
with respect to journals, to beseech publishers to allow authors 
to post a copy of their monographs on the web?  If not, why 
hasn't this been an emphasis?

The difference here would be that green rights are rights to 
self-archive some version of already publisher-published ejournal 
articles, whereas this would be a case of authors gaining rights 
to publish electronically monographs that are sometimes available 
from the publisher only in paper and sometimes also 
electronically available.

Brian Simboli
Science Librarian
Library & Technology Services
E.W. Fairchild Martindale
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA 18015-3170
E-mail: brs4@lehigh.edu