Sally, Percentages, unfortunately, don't always mean much. I haven't read the Cox & Cox report, but it would be interesting to know if the four largest publishers – less than half a percent of publishers, yet together having a market share of perhaps as much as two thirds of the scholarly literature – are in the 53% mentioned, or not (or even in the 6.6% not requiring any written agreement, albeit most unlikely). It would make all the difference.
Jan On 5 Feb 2014, at 13:17, Sally Morris <sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk> wrote: > I find Andrew's experience surprising. When Cox & Cox last looked into this > (in 2008), 53% of publishers requested a copyright transfer, 20.8% asked for > a licence to publish instead, and 6.6% did not require any written > agreement. A further 19.6%, though initially asking for transfer of > copyright, would on request provide a licence document instead. There had > been a steady move away from transfer of copyright since 2003. > > Sally > > > > Sally Morris > South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU > Tel: +44 (0)1903 871286 > Email: sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk > > -----Original Message----- > From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf > Of Andrew A. Adams > Sent: 05 February 2014 00:04 > To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) > Subject: [GOAL] Re: Charles Oppenheim on who owns the rights to scholarly > articles > > Chris Zielinski <ziggytheb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> But even more prudent authors simply shouldn't sign the copyright >> assignment form - publishers don't need anything more than a licence >> to publish. > > Good luck with that if you're anything other than a tenured professor with a > track record that means where your recent papers are published won't effect > funding decisions (individually or for your univesity). I tried to apply > this rule myself a few years ago and after a couple of occasions of getting > nowhere with the publishers decided that doing this individually was just > harming my career and not having any impact on the journals. > > Now, I just "archive and be damned"posting the author's final text (not the > publisher PDF) in open depot ignoring any embargoes. If any publisher > bothered to issue a take-down I'd reset to closed access (and always respond > to button requests). None have so far. > > -- > Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp > Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy > Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics > Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/ > > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
