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RoMEO Studies 4: an analysis of journal publishers' copyright agreements (2003)
| Venue: | LEARNED PUBLISHING |
| Citations: | 2 - 0 self |
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@ARTICLE{Gadd03romeostudies,
author = {Elizabeth Gadd and Charles Oppenheim and Steve Probets},
title = {RoMEO Studies 4: an analysis of journal publishers' copyright agreements},
journal = {LEARNED PUBLISHING},
year = {2003},
volume = {16},
number = {4},
pages = {293--308}
}
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Abstract
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
