Dear Dr. Bhattacharyya,
Greetings!
With the rapid advancement of open access to knowledge due to a strong global open access movement, things are changing very fast. Patnaik (author of this paper) is probably aware of recent developments with respect to rights retention by the authors through the “SPARC Author Addendum to Publication Agreement” (available at www.sparc.arl.org/sites/default/files/Access-Reuse_Addendum.pdf ). This instrument is nowadays used widely across the world to grant license-to-publish (LTP) to the publishers, and retaining copyrights by the authors or their funding/ affiliating institutions. Authors are now empowered to deny any copyright transfer to commercial publishers, rather insist on signing an LTP with the publishers. “DBT and DST Open Access Policy: Policy on Open Access to DBT and DST Funded Research”, approved and finalized in December 2014, is also supportive to the cause of retention of copyrights by the authors. UNESCO just launches an Open
Access Curricula for researchers and librarians (available at http://bit.ly/1xb0Pti). This licensing aspect is discussed in great details in a module of this open access curricula. Interested researchers can take a note of this. Patnaik may offer an updated scenario after examining the “SPARC Author Addendum to Publication Agreement”, “DBT and DST Open Access Policy” and “UNESCO Open Access Curricula for Researchers and Librarians”. Her findings will be completely different than what is presented in this paper.
With Best Regards
Anup
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Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 14:15:07 +0530
From: "Swati Bhattacharyya ."