The study, conducted for the publishing industry, compares what authors think journal agreements permit them to do with their work with a survey of journal policies. From the conclusions:
Authors underestimate what they are allowed to do with pre-publication versions
Authors significantly overestimate their rights to self-archive final published versions
Authors significantly underestimate all their other rights with regard to final published versions
Publishers need to make their policies (and the reasons for them) much more transparent
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 1/21/2009 10:16:00 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.
