Phil, The traditional model of academic journals is that the author signs over the copyright to the journals publisher.
However, today there is the growing field of "open access" journals. In these the author maintains the copyright, usually through Creative Commons (the same as wikieducator). The author is then free to do with it what he wants. Also, some journals today hold the copyright but allow the author to archive the paper either before or after it is published. For more information on open access see Peter Suber's website http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos For a list of open access journals see http://www.doaj.org ________________________________ From: Phil Bartle <cmpbar...@gmail.com> To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 4:17:04 PM Subject: [WikiEducator] a question of copyright If I write an article and an academic journal publishes it, does the journal own the copyright, so the only things I can do with it is to cite it or quote it? Or, do I still own the copyright? If I own the copyright do I have the right to upload it to WikiEducator and therefore change the copyright to ca by se? Phil If the coach does the pushups, The athlete will not get stronger Community Empowerment: www.scn.org/cmp/ WikiEducator http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Philbartle --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
