Open Access policies: Protecting authors’ rights – IO: In The Open

lkfitz's bookmarks 2016-12-05

Summary:

"In a recent letter to the editor of Science, Ilya Kapovich states that “unsustainable ethical and legal burdens are placed on faculty in schools with Harvard-style open-access policies.” While it is true that the terms of open access (OA) policies are sometimes inconsistent with those of standard publishing contracts, this legal complexity is the result of the unnecessarily restrictive and complicated language used in such contracts, which typically require authors to assign their copyright to a publisher, and which thereby work against the interests of authors, other researchers, and the public. In contrast, Harvard-style OA policies simplify this situation for authors, making it clear that they and their home institutions retain rights in the works they create, and thereby providing a means of redressing the systemic problems caused by restrictive copyright transfer practices."

Link:

http://intheopen.net/2016/12/open-access-policies-protecting-authors-rights/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.policies oa.publishers oa.copyright oa.harvard.u oa.publishing oa.growth oa.rights-retention oa.policies.universities oa.universities oa.hei oa.letters

Date tagged:

12/05/2016, 16:59

Date published:

12/05/2016, 11:59