Author/Publisher Agreements & Publisher FUD

Amsciforum 2013-05-03

Summary:

"Why, if Elsevier's author agreement is what it says it is, does Elsevier
feel it needs a further agreement with the author's institution?"

Is a rights agreement not something between the author and the publisher?

The answer is simple: Elsevier knows perfectly well that an author's
agreement that states authors retain their right to post their AAMs to
their institutional repositories, immediately means that their authors
retain their right to post their AAMs to their institutional repositories,
immediately.

So the only way to try to prevent institutions from requiring that their
employees exercise that right is to try to get the institution to sign
an agreement with the publisher that over-rides that right!

Advice for authors: Post your AAMs to your institutional repositories,
immediately.

Advice to Institutions: Don't sign any agreements with publishers about
what rights your employees may or may not exercise.

Link:

http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/2013-May/001820.html

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Tags:

oa.new oa.copyright oa.elsevier

Date tagged:

05/03/2013, 10:35

Date published:

05/03/2013, 06:35