Loughborough University
Browse
RoMEO%20Studies%204.pdf (219.84 kB)

RoMEO Studies 4: an analysis of Journal Publishers’ Copyright Agreements

Download (219.84 kB)
journal contribution
posted on 2005-07-29, 08:52 authored by Elizabeth GaddElizabeth Gadd, Charles Oppenheim, Stephen Probets
This article is the fourth in a series of six emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open archiving). It describes an analysis of 80 scholarly journal publishers’ copyright agreements with a particular view to their effect on author self-archiving. 90% of agreements asked for copyright transfer and 69% asked for it prior to refereeing the paper. 75% asked authors to warrant that their work had not been previously published although only two explicitly stated that they viewed self-archiving as prior publication. 28.5% of agreements provided authors with no usage rights over their own paper. Although 42.5% allowed self-archiving in some format, there was no consensus on the conditions under which self-archiving could take place. The article concludes that author-publisher copyright agreements should be reconsidered by a working party representing the needs of both parties.

History

School

  • Science

Department

  • Information Science

Pages

225121 bytes

Citation

GADD, E., OPPENHEIM, C. and PROBETS, S., 2003. RoMEO Studies 4: an analysis of Journal Publishers’ Copyright Agreements. Learned Publishing, 16(4), pp. 293-308

Publisher

Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers

Publication date

2003

ISSN

0953-1513

Language

  • en