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When you publish a journal article, you sign a copyright agreement. Do you know what you’re agreeing to when you sign it? Different journals have different policies: Some journals require you to relinquish your copyright. (You then have to ask permission or even pay to share your article with students and colleagues!) Some journals allow you to retain some rights (e.g., the right to post online). Some journals leave copyright in your hands. (You simply give the journal a non-exclusive license to publish the article.) How can you find out a journal’s policy? How can you negotiate your contract to make the most of your rights as a scholar, researcher, and author? Come learn how to preserve your rights to reproduce, distribute, and display the work you create.
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You Know What You Write, But Do You Know Your Rights?
Understanding and Protecting Your Rights As an Author
Jill [email protected]
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Slides at: http://tinyurl.com/GCauthorsrights
Do authors WANT to give up all of their rights to their work?
Do authors HAVE to give up all of their rights to their work?
Three Kinds of Journals
1) Traditional Toll Access Journals
Subscription-based journals that require authors to transfer copyright to the journal,
which then has exclusive rights to the article.
Three Kinds of Journals
2) Gold Open Access Journals
Journals that automatically and immediately make their articles available online to all at no cost.
(There are a variety of business models, but the articles are always free to read.)
Gold OA journals do not take copyright. They use Creative Commons licenses instead.
Three Kinds of Journals
3) Green Open Access Journals
Traditional, subscription-based journals that permit authors to self-archive their articles in OA repositories.
In general, Green OA journals do take copyright, but “give back” some rights to the author.
Is a Journal Green OA? Ugh…
Is a Journal Green OA? Easier!
SHERPA/RoMEO
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
Search by journal/publisher to learnits copyright and self-archiving policies
Very Good...
Quite Good...
Not Great...
Very Bad...
Prevalence of Permission?
Among Publishers
SHERPA/RoMEO covers 1696 publishers as of October 2014.74% allow some form of self-archiving.
For more information:http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/statistics.php
Prevalence of Permission?
Among Journals
Of the 18,000+ journals covered by SHERPA/RoMEO in Nov. 2011:
• 87% allow immediate self-archiving of some version of article
• 60% allow immediate self-archiving of post-refereed version
• 16% allow immediate self-archiving of published PDF• Allowing for embargoes (usually 6 to 24 months), 94%
allow self-archiving of post-refereed versions
For more information:http://romeo.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2011/11/24/
Beyond SHERPA/RoMEO
There’s more to a copyright agreement
than self-archiving policies!
Sometimes you need to read the contract itself.
Comparison of Copyright Agreements
BioMed Central
vs.
JAMA
vs.
Journal of Library Innovation
vs.
Wiley-Blackwell
Creative Commons Licenses
Many OA works have Creative Commons (CC) licenses, which grant the public permission to use the work
in more ways than traditional copyright allows.
Making Sense of CC Licenses
Making Sense of CC Licenses
Keep some rights or waive all interests?
Making Sense of CC Licenses
“Voluntary” vs. Mandated Green OA
A growing number of institutions have policies to ensure
that faculty and staff articles become green OA.
Some publishers are now trying to make different rules for “voluntary” self-archiving
and policy-mandated self-archiving:
“You may self-archive if you wish but not if you must.”
“Voluntary” vs. Mandated Green OA
Example #1: Emerald
“Emerald supports authors' voluntary deposit of their own work. Once an article has been published by Emerald, an author may voluntarily post their own version of the article…with no payment or embargo period.”
“If a mandate is in place but funding is not available to pay an APC, you may deposit the post-print of your article into a subject or institutional repository and your funder's research catalogue 24 months after official publication.”
“Voluntary” vs. Mandated Green OA
Example #2: Elsevier
“Elsevier believes that individual authors should be able to distribute their [accepted author manuscript] for their personal voluntary needs and interests…”
“…deposit in, or posting to, subject-oriented or centralized repositories (such as PubMed Central), or institutional repositories with systematic posting mandates is permitted only under specific agreements between Elsevier and the repository, agency or institution…”
Can I Negotiate My Contract?
Sometimes.
Your best shot is the Scholar’s Copyright Addendum Engine:
http://scholars.sciencecommons.org/
Suppose you have the right to self-archive your article.
Where can you self-archive?Where should you self-archive?
Where to Self-Archive?
Subject Repositories
arXiv.orgPubMed Central
Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
Curious if there's a repository for a certain field? http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Disciplinary_repositories
Note: Not every field has a subject repository.
Where to Self-Archive?
Institutional Repositories
An institutional repository (IR) is an online database offered by an institution to collect, preserve, and make
freely available scholarly journal articles and other works created by that institution’s community.
Of course, self-archiving in an institutional repositoryis possible only at institutions with a repository.
Where to Self-Archive?
Subject- and Institution-Independent Sites
ResearchGate.netAcademia.edu
Personal Websites
A good step in the direction of green OA, but not permanent and therefore
not the best option!
Good News!
CUNY is getting an institutional repository very soon!
(More precisely, each campus is getting its own IR.)
The Graduate Center already has its repository!
Graduate Center Academic Workshttp://works.gc.cuny.edu
Good News!
Good News!
Graduate Center FacultyYou can start submitting now!
(Talk to me if interested.)
Graduate Center StudentsAs of 2014, all dissertations & theses go into the IR, with an optional embargo period before going OA.Soon, you’ll also be able to submit other works.
Other CUNY FacultyLook for your campus’s IR in 2015!
Advice to Authors1. Research any journal/publisher you’re considering.
(Quality? Peer reviewing process? Copyright policy?)
2. If you have the right to self-archive, exercise that right.
3. If you don’t have the right to self-archive, request it.
4. Choose the best publishing venue for you and your career…
5. …but also think about the system you’re contributing to and the system you want to contribute to.
Know your rights to what you write!
Credits
This slideshow is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Specific graphics may have different licenses.
“What Is the Problem?” graphic,content by Jill Cirasella / graphic design by Les LaRue,
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
Thank you!
Questions?
Jill [email protected]
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Slides at: http://tinyurl.com/GCauthorsrights
