“This is about authors’ rights,” said John Wilbanks, vice-president of Science Commons. “Right now, authors trade the most important rights – like the right to make copies of their own scholarly works – to traditional publishers. That trade has led to an imbalanced world of restricted access to knowledge, skyrocketing journal prices, and an inability to apply new technologies to the scholarly canon of knowledge.”
He told IWR that there had been little publisher response to the announcement. “So far it has been pretty quiet from publishers, which is not surprising. There is not a lot of interest in making it clear that you don’t want authors to have the right to make copies of their own work.”
The Scholar’s Copyright Addendum Engine allows authors to choose from four addenda which will generate amendments to a publisher’s copyright agreement to give authors the right to reuse their own work....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/02/2007 09:37:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
