----- Original Message ----- From: Ransdell, Joseph M. <ransd...@door.net> To: <american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 1999 10:38 AM Subject: Re: The True Cost of the Essentials (Implementing Peer Review)
<snip> > (8) ADVICE TO AUTHORS: If there is a possibility of making > significant money from the sale of your paper, don't share > copyright with your university and don't give it away to a refereed > journal either! Get an agent and make a good fee/royalty deal with > a trade publisher. And check any agreement you have signed with your university. You may have given up the right to make such deals. A copyright is intellectual property, like a patent. I recall that the U. of Michigan took a faculty member to court a few years ago on this question.
