Stevan Thanks for your excellent summary.
On 8 Nov 2004, at 3:37 pm, Stevan Harnad wrote:
(3) The Committee's formal report in 2004 accordingly only recommended one mandatory step and that was that all UK funded researchers should be required by their funders to self-archive all their published journal articles on their own institution's websites, thereby making them free for all users, worldwide.
Can you summarise, for those of us who are short of time to read all the lengthy reports, how this was supposed to be squared up with the current arrangement which usually requires authors to sign a copyright transfer form, and that some (but not all publishers) do not allow republishing on the authors' own website (or his employers)? And what about work that is done outside a specifically funded grant? Best wishes Ralph -- Prof Ralph Martin Phone: +44(0)29 2087 5536 School of Computer Science Fax: +44(0)29 2087 4598 Cardiff University Email: mailto:[email protected] 5 The Parade, Roath WWW: http://ralph.cs.cf.ac.uk/ Cardiff, CF24 3AA, United Kingdom VOIP: sip:[email protected]
