Re: SV: [EP-underground] Implement EPrints Article

Thanks! I didn't go into copyright because I don't understand it fully and
no advise is better than bad advise, but I'll look into seeing if I can get
help adding such a section.

Are you familiar with the Self Archiving FAQ which goes into this in depth?
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/

On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:55:07AM +0200, Hugo Fjelsted Alrøe wrote:
> 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
> 
> > -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> > Fra: ePrints Support [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sendt: 12. august 2002 19:27
> > Til: [email protected]
> > Emne: [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(!).
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> >  Christopher Gutteridge                   
> > [email protected]
> >  ePrints2 Coder, Support and Stuff        +44 23 8059 4833
> > 
> > 

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