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Elizabeth Gadd
Elizabeth
Gadd
Stephen Probets
Stephen
Probets
Charles Oppenheim
Charles
Oppenheim
RoMEO Studies 1: the impact of copyright ownership on academic author self-archiving
Loughborough University
2005
Universities
Publishers
Academics
Copyright ownership
Self-archiving
Open access
Information Systems
Library and Information Studies
Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
2005-07-28 16:25:15
Journal contribution
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/RoMEO_Studies_1_the_impact_of_copyright_ownership_on_academic_author_self-archiving/9413168
This is the first of a series of studies emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open-archiving) which investigated the IPR issues relating to academic author self-archiving of research papers. It considers the claims for copyright ownership in research papers by universities, academics, and publishers by drawing on the literature, a survey of 542 academic authors and an analysis of 80 journal publisher copyright transfer agreements. The paper concludes that self-archiving is not best supported by copyright transfer to publishers. It recommends that universities assert their interest in copyright ownership in the long term, that academics retain rights in the short term, and that publishers consider new ways of protecting the value they add through journal publishing.