...The deposit of all the University's research outputs published after 1 January 2008 in the repository is strongly encouraged by the Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research, the Director of Research, and the Research and Scholarship Committee to facilitate the management of research and raise the University's profile as a research institution. Work published before this date is equally eligible for deposit in the system....
Anyone may access full items free of charge. Single copies of full items can be downloaded from the repository without prior permission or charge for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes. Single copies may be stored in a database giving access to them provided:
the author(s), title and full bibliographic details are given
a hyperlink and/or URL are given for the original metadata page in the University of Glamorgan's online repository
the content is not changed in any way
Full items must not be sold commercially in any format or medium without formal permission of the copyright holders....
Comments
For background, see our post from two weeks ago on the launch of the Glamorgan IR.
One curious feature of this policy is the section barring commercial reuse without the copyright holder's permission. Most of the items in the repository will not have NC licenses, or indeed any licenses. So this is not an attempt to enforce the author's wishes but to enforce a policy of the IR itself or the university. This is curious for a number of reasons. First, the IR isn't selling anything and shouldn't care whether users make commercial use of its contents. Second, the policy doesn't add or subtract anything to the rights users would have in the absence of the policy. When copyrighted works don't have a special license, users always have to ask the copyright holder for permission to make commercial uses. Finally, the policy may be an attempt to signal publishers that the repository is not designed to undermine them. But because the policy doesn't change user rights, the signal is superfluous.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/11/2008 05:40:00 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.
