[EP-underground] Implement EPrints Article

Hi. I've been working on the attached article as a relatively non-technical
introduction to setting up an archive.

It's deliberately not EPrints specific but deals with the general issues
which apply to any institutional archive/database.

I'm sending it to this list for comment as in theory you guys are the experts
in this subject(!).




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 Christopher Gutteridge                   [email protected]
 ePrints2 Coder, Support and Stuff        +44 23 8059 4833


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Dear Christopher

We are right now in the process of setting up an archive, and I found your
article good and very useful in this respect. You touch on many issues that
we have met and some more. However, I missed a short discussion of the
copyright issue - it is afterall often the first issue that potential
contributers to open archives bring up. Something like (as I have understood
the issue):
In general, authors have the copyright for all their own original writings.
Usually, however, the author signs over all or most copyrights to a
publisher when publishing scientific articles and books. In these cases they
need a specific permission to deposit the version that is accepted for
publication (the post[-review-]print). They can, however, still deposit the
pre[-review-]print. Exceptions: In some cases the Employer gains the
copyright of original writings. Some journals  have an 'embargo' policy
saying that they will not consider an article for publication if the
preprint has been placed on a website with open access.

We want to require that our researches 'always' deposit full text documents
(including preprints), and we therefore have to address the embargo problem.
Do anyone have any idea on which or how many journals have this policy? I
only know that Nature has abandoned it. Examples of such a policy statement
would be useful for us. A list of journals would be even more useful, and we
will probably have to inquire and make such a list in our field. I am not
certain whether the embargo policy include websites open only to an
institution, for instance?. If not, a solution in those cases could be to
restrict preprint access to a large but still limited community (by way of a
password). In our case the researchers connected to our research centre plus
perhaps others on an individual basis.

Kind regards
Hugo Alroe, Danish Research Center for Organic Farming

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> Emne: [EP-underground] Implement EPrints Article
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> 
> Hi. I've been working on the attached article as a relatively 
> non-technical
> introduction to setting up an archive.
> 
> It's deliberately not EPrints specific but deals with the 
> general issues
> which apply to any institutional archive/database.
> 
> I'm sending it to this list for comment as in theory you guys 
> are the experts
> in this subject(!).
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
>  Christopher Gutteridge                   
> [email protected]
>  ePrints2 Coder, Support and Stuff        +44 23 8059 4833
> 
>