Stevan Harnad wrote:
"Most of the existing 24,000 journals would not
accept to publish public-domain texts"
I think this is probably inaccurate. I would guess that practically all of
those journals do publish works which are currently governed by the Public
Domain status of US Government works.
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Sally Morris made a very good point:
> Stevan Harnad wrote:
>sh> "Most of the existing 24,000 journals would not
>sh> accept to publish public-domain texts"
>
> I think this is probably inaccurate. I would guess that practically all of
> those journals do publi
The US Federal government actually does quite a bit to disseminate
government works. There's the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP),
GPO Access, and FirstGov.
see:
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ (homepage for GPO Access)
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/about.html
http://www.access.gpo.gov
I think publishers would publish texts to which the copyright owner gave
them an irrevocable nonexclusive license to publish in all media, which
is all they need for STM journals. Subsidiary rights do not come into
play for the sort of material we are discussing, nor does the possibility
that someo
Actually, I disagree with your statement that "... publishers are likely ...
to try to contest it [authors not signing (c) transfer] if it risks becoming
the majority case". It's my impression that the number of publishers who do
not require copyright transfer is growing, as they realise that they
Samuel Trosow wrote:
> The US Federal government actually does quite a bit to disseminate
> government works. There's the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP),
> GPO Access, and FirstGov.
Do published journal articles routinely appear in these?
Sally
Sally Morris, Secretary-General
Associa
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Sally Morris wrote:
> Actually, I disagree with your statement that "... publishers are likely ...
> to try to contest it [authors not signing (c) transfer] if it risks becoming
> the majority case". It's my impression that the number of publishers who do
> not require copyrig
No they don't. My point is that the federal government does broadly
disseminate works in the public domain, which seemed to be the question
you were raising. But as long as you ask, I see no reason why they
couldn't or why they shouldn't. As I indicated in my previous post and
in my paper, the f
