Gerhard Beier and Ulla Tschida, Journal Publishers Approaches to Self-Archiving and Open Access : ZIM Briefing Paper, a preprint (without full-text) on the Max Planck Society eDoc Server, last revised October 14, 2003. Abstract: "Analysis of 80 scholarly publishers' copyright agreements - Selected examples from major publishers regarding self-archiving - Selected Reading and selected websites - Appendix A: Analysis of Copyright Transfer Agreements (CTA) and/or Licences of commercial Publishers and Learned Societies-Extracts." (Thanks to Klaus Graf.)
Update. When I first blogged this, only a citation and abstract were posted to the Max Planck eDoc Server. But now the full-text is online. (Thanks to Bernd-Christoph Kaemper.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/19/2004 01:31:00 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.
