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Journal copyright transfer agreements: their effect on author self archiving

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posted on 2005-08-16, 16:23 authored by Elizabeth GaddElizabeth Gadd, Charles Oppenheim, Stephen Probets
This paper reports on the results of an analysis of 80 copyright transfer agreements (CTAs) with particular regard to their effect on author self-archiving. It shows the number of CTAs asking for copyright assignment, the time of assignment and what happens when copyright cannot be assigned. It outlines the warranties required of the author, and the exceptions granted back to the author by which they may use their own work. In particular it focuses on the number of CTAs allowing selfarchiving and the conditions under which they may do so. It concludes that whether an author can safely self-archive or not depends on a complex matrix of the following factors: i) whether copyright assignment or a non-exclusive licence is required; ii) the time of copyright assignment; iii) if (and when) CTA’s actually allow self-archiving; iv) if publishers do not allow self-archiving, but do not see it as ‘prior publication’; v) whether the preprint is legally a separate copyright work to the refereed postprint; and vi) whether the author wishes to self-archive a pre-print, postprint or both.

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Gadd, E.A., Oppenheim, C., and Probets, S., 2003. Journal copyright transfer agreements: their effect on author self archiving. De Souza Costa, S.M., Joao Alvaro Carvalho, Ana Alice Baptista, Ana Cristina Santos Moreira. (ed.) In: ElPUB 2003 From Information to Knowledge Proceedings of the 7th ICCC/IFIP International Conference on Electronic Publishing. June 25-28 2003, 2003, Universidade do Minho pp.95-103.

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Universidade do Minho

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2003

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  • en