Re: Authors Re-using Their Own Work

2009-08-04 Thread Arthur Sale
[ The following text is in the UTF-8 character set. ] [ Your display is set for the iso-8859-1 character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] Charles   You miss the point. As the copy leaves my Australian hands, it is not an infringing copy. It falls under an

Re: Authors Re-using Their Own Work

2009-08-04 Thread C . Oppenheim
[ The following text is in the utf-8 character set. ] [ Your display is set for the iso-8859-1 character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] Was ever thus, Arthur. If I make copies of a document in a country with no copyright laws at all, and attempt to bring

Re: Authors Re-using Their Own Work

2009-08-04 Thread Laurence Bebbington
Arthur   You seem to be using an out-of-date copy of the UK Act. The text you quote is the original 1988 version. Important changes were made in 2003. It has some implications for what you say, obviously in discussing legal issues it's best to use an up-to-date version of the legal provisions

Re: Research: Writ, Reason, and Practice

2009-08-04 Thread Couture Marc
On 4-Aug-09, at 6:45 AM, S. Harnad wrote:     Aside: This formal side-issue has next to nothing to do with Open Access and Green Open Access Mandates.      As interesting as may be these discussions about the subtleties of copyright law and its application to scholarly activities (and I,

Re: Research: Writ, Reason, and Practice

2009-08-04 Thread Jeffery, KG (Keith)
Stevan - many thanks for a succinct summary.  However, while I agree it has nothing to do strictly with green OA, the subject of copyright has been used by some disingenuously to try to dissuade authors from self-archiving of peer-reviewed material as you well know.  Debunking the myth could prove

Number of scholarly journals in the world.

2009-08-04 Thread Jean-Claude Gu�don
[ The following text is in the utf-8 character set. ] [ Your display is set for the iso-8859-1 character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] In the last few years, various attempts to estimate the number of journals in the world have been used. Figures ranging