Hi Yes, you are correct. Joint authors share copyright ownership (unless it is ceded to the journal) (and unless one author was specifically responsible for a discrete part of the article - which is unusual), and therefore joint rights.
This means that if the journal (or the funding mandate) grants permission to post an article within a repository then it can be posted in the repository of each author's institution - which leads to multiple points of access. This is generally a good thing, unless there are subsequent corrections which may not be made/noted in all repositories - if each author takes the opportunity to post then there is a collective responsibility to maintain version synchronisation. (A personal experience: I found an "early version" of an article I co-authored several years ago in an Australian repository. I had lost contact with my co-author who had moved on from the Australian university. I was not happy to see the early version (it contained errors that had been corrected in the version of record), but it was very difficult to get the university to update it - after all, they did not know who I was.) The only time this ability to multi-post articles will be prevented is if there is a specific restriction. For instance (hypothetically) a journal may allow posting in Pubmed Central, but not in individual repositories. I don't know of any such example, but it is possible. Pippa ***** Pippa Smart Research Communication and Publishing Consultant PSP Consulting 3 Park Lane, Appleton, Oxon OX13 5JT, UK Tel: +44 7775 627688 or +44 1865 864255 email: pippa.sm...@gmail.com Web: www.pspconsulting.org **** Editor of the ALPSP-Alert, Reviews editor of Learned Publishing **** On 5 February 2013 01:31, Stephen X. Flynn <sfl...@wooster.edu> wrote: > If I may resurrect this question about joint authors. > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but my assumption is that joint authorship is very > much like a joint bank account. You, as the joint account owner, has just as > much the ability to withdraw money, write checks, initiate wire transfers, > etc as the other account owner. Isn't joint authorship very similar? One > co-author has the ability to exercise his or her rights to self-archive the > work in an IR (provided the journal's policies allow this). Why should one > co-author be able to prevent others from self-archiving? > > ---- > Stephen X. Flynn > Emerging Technologies Librarian > The College of Wooster > Wooster, OH > (330) 737-1755 > > On Dec 4, 2012, at 11:31 AM, Stevan Harnad wrote: > > On 2012-12-04, at 10:44 AM, Elizabeth Kirk <elizk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > All, > > We have a group of faculty very interested in promoting an OA policy > > for faculty deposit of journal articles. People are very interested in > knowing > > in advance how other institutions with such policies handle cases where one > > of multiple authors of an article refuses/is not able to allow the posting > of an article to an IR. > > 1. Deposit the article anyway, but set access as Closed Access > instead of OA: metadata are OA, article is not. > > 2. Implement the email-eprint-request Button. > > Do you > · --embargo the deposited article? > > > You can set the Closed Access to elapse after the embargo period, if you > wish. > > · --allow a “pass” and not ingest the article? > > Definitely do *not* omit the article altogether. > > Stevan Harnad > > · --other possible solutions? > > Thanks so much for your assistance. Please feel free to respond privately. > > > > > > All the best, > > Eliz > > > Elizabeth E. Kirk > > Associate Librarian for Information Resources > > Dartmouth College Library > > 6025 Baker Library, Rm. 115 > > Hanover, NH, USA > > tel: (603) 646-9929 > > fax: (603) 646-3702 > > > > elizabeth.e.k...@dartmouth.edu > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "SPARC IR" group. > To post to this group, send email to sparc...@arl.org > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sparc-ir+unsubscr...@arl.org > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/a/arl.org/group/sparc-ir > > You may need to log in to view the archive. If this is required, you will > need a Google account associated with the email address under which you are > subscribed to this group. 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