Open Access Inititative: access to scientific and scholarly research that authors give to publishers (Open Society Institute (OSI)
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/
Open Archives Inititative: protocol for collecting metadata from datafiles residing in separte archives
Open Standard: independent of any single organization or provider; could be use to develop software and users may propose changes (Dublin core, MARC)
Open Source: free software, source code available, can be modified.
Publishers and Open Access
Some publishers are coming around to offer open access publishing or options. For example, some publsihers offer authors the option to pay for Open Access to their paper. The charge depends on if the author Library subscribes to the journal, or if they belong to developing countries.
Pre-prints, post-prints and Institutional Repositories
pre-print is the first draft of the article, before peer-review.
post-prints is the version of the paper after peer-review, with revisions. For further explanations see: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeoinfo.html#prepostprints
To see what policies the publisher or an specific journal has use:
SHERPA - Publisher copyright policies and self-archiving
ROMEO - Self-Archiving Policy by Journal
SHERPA-JULIET - Research Funder's Open Access Policies
Looking for Open Access journals to publish? Use the Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/
Resources for authors
SPARC ®, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/
SPARC addendum for authors
"Can I post my articles on my blog, personal web sites or in institutional repositories?"
"Can I share my work after assigning the copyright to a publisher?"
"Will the SPARC addendum hinder my article's chances of being published?"
Guide to creating institutional open access policies by SPARC AND SCIENCE COMMONS:
http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/opendoors_v1.pdf
Elsevier and author's rights http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/copyright
Johns Hopkins University press http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/authorfaq.html
Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials
"...fair use is better described as a shadowy territory whose boundaries are disputed..." http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/intellectualProperty/copypol2.htm
Rules of Thumb for Coursepacks (from the U. of Texas "Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials" guide)
via Smart Mobs by Stephanie Gerson on 4/9/08
"According to Google lawyer William Patry, entertainment giants are waging a ‘whisper campaign’ to kill the Fair use doctrine of US copyright law. This doctrine allows copyrighted material to be used in a limited way without permission from copyright holders, such as for scholarship or review, and is based on free speech rights. As their line of attack, entertainment giants are attempting to persuade world governments that Fair Use violates the Berne Convention, a centuries-old copyright treaty that is extremely rigid and difficult to change, and whose adoption is a condition for other trade agreements. And as implied by its terminology, this whisper campaign is sneaky: fearing that their appeal cannot succeed on the basis of its merits, giants have shifted the debate into a more promising arena – namely, minutia of copyright laws that ministry officials are unfamiliar with, and therefore less likely to dispute. Killing Fair Use could, domestically, force the US to adopt more restrictive copyright laws, and internationally, prevent countries forced to adopt the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by the World Intellectual Property Organization treaty and seeking to counterbalance it by adopting Fair-Use-like doctrines from doing so."
For more information contact Luz Marina Alvaré ext. 5614 or send your questions to l.alvare@cgiar.org
Comments (0)
You don't have permission to comment on this page.