Strategies for not transferring copyright of academic articles
"Ben Trettel" <[email protected]> Thu, 05 Dec 2019 22:35:15 -0600
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Hi, I'm a PhD student in mechanical engineering. I'm aware this list says "math copyright" in the title, but I think you all can help, however few of you there are.
I don't want to give away the copyright to my writings, but I'm basically required to publish in journals to get my PhD. I work in fluid dynamics and have asked representatives of several journals in this field about not transferring copyright. For the most part I'm told that copyright transfer is required unless I work for the government. One representative of a more popular journal didn't give a clear answer. The representative indicated that they have published papers under license before, but argued that it's not actually in my interest to keep copyright. (I obviously wasn't convinced.)
Earlier this week I submitted two articles to the same journal. This journal requires transfer of copyright to submit an article. The agreement indicated that if I withdraw an article then the copyright would revert back to me. My plan at the moment is to wait for the articles to be accepted and then tell the editor that I will withdraw them unless I can keep the copyright. I figure by then they've already decided that they want the articles, so it might be easier to convince them to allow me to keep the copyright.
Is this plan doomed to fail? Maybe the situation in math or CS is different as I'm only about 50% confident my plan will work. Any thoughts or descriptions of past experiences would be appreciated.
(Note: Journals in fluid dynamics have started adding open access options, but the fees are absurdly high for all of the established journals. Worse, not all of them allow you to keep copyright even for open access articles!)
Ben
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