Voluntary principles for article sharing on scholarly collaboration networks (Revised June 8, 2015)

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Summary:

"The signatories to these principles believe:

• Publishers have a core commitment to facilitate the dissemination and discovery of their authors’ scholarly articles.

Sharing should be allowed within research collaboration groups, namely groups of scholars or researchers invited to participate in specific research collaborations. Such groups would:

  • be of the size that is typical for research groups of that discipline
  • only share articles within and for the purposes of the group
  • allow article sharing between subscribers and non-subscribers within the group
  • include commercial researchers, subject to publisher policy or appropriate licensing
  • include members of the wider public participating for the purposes of the group

• Publishers and libraries should be able to measure the amount and type of sharing, using standards such as COUNTER, to better understand the habits of their readers and quantify the value of the services they provide.

• Initiatives to facilitate sharing should:

  • be based on standards to support the tools and platforms required by researchers
  • be open to all participants supporting these principles
  • integrate access and usage rights and data reporting into research workflows
  • ensure that usage and activity data is managed in a manner consistent with personal privacy and security laws and requirements

• Public posting of article metadata and open access articles in scholarly collaboration networks should be encouraged.

• Publisher policies on research collaboration group sharing and public posting of articles should be clear and easily discoverable, and we call on publishers to work toward this goal."

Link:

https://www.stm-assoc.org/2015_06_08_Voluntary_principles_for_article_sharing_on_scholarly_collaboration_networks.pdf

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Date tagged:

05/25/2018, 16:18

Date published:

05/25/2018, 12:18