The agreement, designed to be construed under Australian law, grants the publisher the exclusive right of first publication and otherwise grants only non-exclusive rights.
PS: For comparison, see the OA-friendly model publication agreements from JISC/SURF (October 2006, link currently dead) and from Open Access Law Canada (April 2007). Also see the OAD list of author addenda.
Update (12/11/08). The link for the JISC/SURF model license is now alive again. Here's a more direct link.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/08/2008 12:19:00 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.
