Chicago Manual of Style on Open Access

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"Who knew? The Chicago Manual of Style‘s current edition (the 16th) includes for the first time a stance on open-access (Section 4.62), and on Harvard-style OA policies in particular (Section 4.63). Written by copyright lawyer William S. Strong of Kotin, Crabtree & Strong, LLP, the chapter comes down hard on academics’ attempts to use their own writings. Section 4.62 on “Authors’ electronic use of their own works” claims that open access to articles in institutional repositories is “likely to diminish licensing revenues” (despite all evidence to the contrary)....The Manual makes a recommendation to publishers to generate their own addenda “to use when presented with author requests for nonexclusive rights.” But why make the addendum conditions available only upon request? If the addendum-specified activities are allowable, why not just allow them in the publisher’s agreement from the get-go? In particular, how about a recommendation that publisher agreements allow authors of scholarly articles to post their final manuscript versions at their discretion, that is, allowing green OA? Section 4.64 on “The NIH Public Access Policy” recommends that publishers “push for the maximum delay (i.e., twelve months) on public posting” if concerned about maximizing their revenues. The most surprising thing about the new Manual sections is that a style manual is taking a stance on these intellectual property issues in the first place. The issues are obviously considerably more nuanced than Mr. Strong’s RIAA-like stance makes clear...."

Link:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2010/12/20/chicago-manual-of-style-on-open-access/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » Connotea Imports

Tags:

oa.new oa.publishers oa.negative oa.rights-retention oa.misunderstandings oa.copyright

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 15:16

Date published:

12/23/2010, 17:51