[LIS-Forum] Traditional journal publisher support author right

[Sukhdev Singh]

Dear Friends,

It seems the Open Access movement has started making it impact of
traditional academic publishing. However, their statement as inferred
by Mallikarjun, sounds like if the publishers are doing some favor to
authors.

Remember, all rights are originally with the authors. It is the
authors (not publishers) who are doing favor to publishers by
confering or transfering their rights in their favor.

I feel, now authors need to be aware of smart negotiation techniques.
Negotiations!!? Yes nothing bad in it. After all authors are  giving
away their property. [Which most of the time is produced by authors
utilizing national resources directly or indirectly]. They should
better negotiate for NON-EXCLUSIVE agreements.

Here is a good guide for authors to protect their rights.

http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/addendum.html

Regarding self-archiving of articles, reputed publishers like Elsevier
are allowing authors to archive their Pre / or Post-Print Versions of
their papers.

Check out http://romeo.eprints.org for publishers policies.

(Server Problem, When I checked).

Again I would refer to the cartoon by PLOS.ORG

"You Write The Papers,
You Review the Papers..
Why Should You Pay to Read Them?"
- http://www.plos.org/downloads/plos_cartoon001.jpg

Even forget that, Don't we all know -

"BOOKS ARE FOR USE"
(First Law)

--Sukhdev Singh

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Mallikarjun <mallikarjun23j at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear Professionals
....

>  Recent statement made by the traditional publishing groups STM/PSP/ALPSP
>  In a recent white paper "Author and publisher right for academic use: An appropriate balance" given considerable support for author right as the industry standard.
....

>
>  it is a good news that author can post to a pre-print server, it will be another success towards institutional repositories.
>
>  Mallikarjun
>  Professional Assistant(Library)
>  VS Library
>  IIM, Ahemadabad
>  ...The Future is here, Its just unevenly distributed.....
>  http://curiouslib.blogspot.com/
>

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