RoMEO%20Studies%201.pdf (551.52 kB)
RoMEO Studies 1: the impact of copyright ownership on academic author self-archiving
journal contribution
posted on 2005-07-28, 16:25 authored by Elizabeth GaddElizabeth Gadd, Stephen Probets, Charles OppenheimThis 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.
History
School
- Science
Department
- Information Science
Pages
564755 bytesCitation
GADD, E, PROBETS, S. and OPPENHEIM, C., 2003. RoMEO Studies 1: the impact of copyright ownership on academic author self-archiving. Journal of Documentation, 59(3), pp. 243-277Publication date
2003Language
- en