Subject: Re: Library Link discussion (fwd)
Richard Fyffe (rfyffe@libstaff.lib.uconn.edu)
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 18:09:35 -0500
Message-Id: <199902060010.TAA19154@arl.org> From: "Richard Fyffe" <rfyffe@libstaff.lib.uconn.edu> To: arl-ejournal@arl.org Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 18:09:35 -0500 Subject: Re: Library Link discussion (fwd) In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.05.9902050940420.5514-100000@sun.cc.westga.edu> References: <v0211010db2e04da0b002@[203.37.43.24]>
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Carol Goodson <cgoodson@westga.edu> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Tony Barry <tonyb@dynamite.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > Even better - do NOT submit you papers to ...
> > _any_ journal that restricts your right to republish your own writing.
>
> I believe that if you continue to hold all rights to your work, it
> limits the journal publisher from making deals with commercial indexers
> to include the journal content in published indexes and/or full-text
> databases... although I'm as eager to profit as the next person, I
> think I ultimately prefer what I write to be retrievable by others,
> and thus possibly useful.
Publishers have a legitimate interest in being able to republish
content under certain circumstances, without having to seek author
permission each time, so for authors to seek full copyright may be
counterproductive.
But authors can and should seek to retain rights to
re-use/re-distribute their work for educational and other
not-for-profit purposes (e.g., local coursepacks). These rights can
be specified in an author's contract.
A publisher that won't grant such rights should not be supported by
scholarly authors.
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