Subject: Re: Library Link discussion (fwd)
Steve Hitchcock (sh94r@ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 00:06:35 +0000
Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19990208000635.00801620@penelope.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 00:06:35 +0000 To: arl-ejournal@arl.org From: Steve Hitchcock <sh94r@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Library Link discussion (fwd) In-Reply-To: <701FFCC0F2D3D111A09B006097D552148B9E98@lister2.lhl.uab.edu>
On 2/5/99, T. Scott Plutchak <tscott@lister2.lhl.uab.edu> wrote:
>
> Having said that, however, these are solveable issues. Copyrights are
> segmented all the time in the trade & entertainment industry where one
> pays considerable attention to exactly what rights one is selling
> (publication in hardback in US, for example, while reserving rights to
> publication in other countries, paperback publication, serialization,
> dramatization based on, etc., etc., etc...) In the scholarly publishing
> world, however, we have tended to look at it as all or nothing -- which
> is only to the benefit of the commercial publishers. Scholars need to
> become much more savvy about what the value of their copyrights really
> is and then work through their institutions and their professional
> societies to parcel those rights out in ways that enhance the
> distribution of scholarly information. Your right, as a
> scholar/scientist, to your intellectual property, is one of the most
> important and powerful tools you have. We need to learn how to use
> these tools wisely, to the benefit of the scholarly enterprise.
Non-exclusivity is becoming more important for academic authors for
the reasons Scott Plutchak outlines above. We examined the case
for non-exclusivity in our recent e-print paper, and trace other
initiatives which have raised the profile of this issue:
Making the Most of Electronic Journals
http://xxx.lanl.gov/html/cs.DL/9812016
Comments welcome, before we finalise for publication and cede all
rights in perpetuity :-)
Steve Hitchcock
Open Journal Project
Multimedia Research Group, Department of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
Email: sh94r@ecs.soton.ac.uk
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