Julia Blixrud, Balancing Stakeholder Interests in Scholarship-Friendly Copyright Practices, ARL Bimonthly Report, December 2004. Excerpt: 'The premise for the [Zwolle] meetings [December 2002 and following] was the need for universities to rethink their strategic role in the dissemination of academic scholarship. New technologies make the creation and distribution of scholarly work easier. How universities might raise awareness and educate their administrators and faculty about copyright and how to address the allocation of rights among the key stakeholders were the major topics of discussion. A significant outcome of the meetings was a set of principles, "Balancing Stakeholder Interests in Scholarship-Friendly Copyright Practices" (see sidebar). These principles were to a great extent based on the Tempe principles, and the report, "Seizing the Moment --Scientists' Authorship Rights in the Digital Age," from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In addition, the Zwolle group has collected and reviewed agreements between authors and publishers, institutional copyright ownership policies, and is creating a "copyright toolkit" that will help inform publication agreements and university policies.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/08/2005 11:49:00 AM.
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.
