---------- Forwarded message ---------- List-Post: goal@eprints.org List-Post: goal@eprints.org Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:11:54 EST From: digital-copyri...@nova.umuc.edu To: CIP's Digital Copyright Listserv <digital-copyri...@nova.umuc.edu> Subject: DIGITAL-COPYRIGHT digest 46
DIGITAL-COPYRIGHT Digest 46 Topics covered in this issue include: 8) FW: Advice to a University Copyright Officer by Jenny Pickles <jpick...@emeraldinsight.com> To members of the list AUTHOR'S RE-USE OF THEIR PUBLISHED WORK As an electronic journal publisher, predominantly in the management field, may we respond to the concerns raised by Stevan and his correspondent with a few comments on how we have amended our own policy on copyright transfer specifically to address these issues. We certainly agree that whilst we require copyright assignment to enable us to continue to fully develop our electronic products to achieve maximum dissemination of our authors' work, "the author should retain as many rights as possible". Our Authors' Charter www.emeraldinsight.com/charter/index.htm sets out in detail the benefits which we believe our authors have the right to expect by choosing to publish in an Emerald journal. It states: " Emerald (trading name of MCB UP Ltd) seeks to retain copyright of the articles it publishes, without the author giving up their rights to use their own material. Authors are not required to seek Emerald's permission to re-use their own work..." Assignment of copyright " does NOT, in any way, restrict your right to: * Republish your article in another journal or as a book chapter * Reproduce your article by photocopying for course notes or promotional literature * Reproduce your article by electronic means or on the Internet (subject to acknowledgement of first publication details). Emerald never charges its authors for re-use of any of their own published works. Authors are requested to cite the original publication source of their work - but are not required to seek Emerald's permission with regard to the personal re-use of their work." DISSEMINATION OF AUTHORS' WORK Further, not only do we inform authors that they retain the right to post their peer-reviewed published articles on the Web, but we offer to provide the pdf file to facilitate the process and enable them to promote their work to best effect via their free membership of the Literati Club www.emeraldinsight.com/literaticlub/index.htm We know from feedback from our own author community that they really appreciate Emerald's activities on their behalf to ensure the widest possible readership for their work in return for assigning their copyright to us. For example: * Our very liberal subscription licenses are very well received by subscribing libraries as are * Librarians' support services via Library Link. www.emeraldinsight.com/librarylink/index.htm * We are also working to form partnerships with reputable third party organisations. For example, with professional membership associations to enable them to provide access to the most appropriate content, in the most cost effective ways, as an alternative to traditional journal subscriptions for the benefit of their members. www.emerald-partnerships.com PRE-PUBLICATION OF AUTHORS' WORK In terms of pre-print promotion of an authors' work, and in the interests of providing open access to ongoing research, we have invested significantly in the development of the Emerald Internet Research Register which we make freely available worldwide, both for researchers to register their work and to view the work of others. www.emeraldinsight.com/researchregister/index.htm In addition to summarising his or her ongoing research on the register, the author's individual record has the facility to include links to project Web Sites, working papers, conference presentations, related research projects etc. Moreoever, the record can be updated by the author at any stage to link to the definitive published work if they wish (or summary thereof, if they do not have the permission to link to a non Emerald publication). If the publication is a book a link can be established directly to the publishers' Web site or Amazon.com as applicable. SHARING PHOTOCOPYING ROYALTIES At Emerald we have attempted to go even further by seeking to address the somewhat contentious issue in journal publishing, as Stevan implies, relating to the equitable re-distribution (or otherwise) of royalty revenues received by publishers from Reproduction Rights Organisations. Emerald has chosen to establish its own Research Fund, for the benefit of its author community, from a proportion of the funds it receives from the Publishers' Licensing Society each year for photocopying of our journals. We believe that this enables us to to provide just such an equitable redistribution, directly to those who created the content which generated these funds, but in sizeable enough cheques to make a meaningful contribution to the futherance of scholarly knowledge - which after all is something which we all wish to encourage. Despite the significant drop in anticipated revenue last year as a result of the Copyright Tribunal, Emerald will honour its promise to its authors and our Annual Literati Club Awards Celebration at Lord's Cricket Ground on April 11, 2002 will see the presentation of the first Emerald Research Awards. Please watch out further announcments then. www.emeraldinsight.com/literaticlub/whatsnew/newsline/jan2002.htm We appreciate that there will be some stakeholders who will still disagree with aspects of our policy, but all in all, we are very proud of our copyright policy and have worked hard to try and make it as author friendly as it is possible to be within the normal constraints of any commercially run business. However, our policy development remains an interative process and as such we value the opportunity to receive constructive feedback and comments from list members. Indeed, we would be happy to discuss any of these issues in more detail either via the list or face to face. Best wishes Jenny Pickles on behalf of the Emerald's Copyright Taskforce. __________________________________ Jenny Pickles New Business Development Manager Copyright Representative ______________________________ EMERALD 60-62 Toller Lane BRADFORD West Yorkshire BD8 9BY Tel: +44 1274 785087 Fax: +44 1274 785201 Email: jpick...@emeraldinsight.com www.emeraldinsight.com _______________________________ Professional Associations - Like to improve the benefits package you offer your members? Contact us to see how we can help. www.emerald-partnerships.com _______________________________