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Research Week 2014
Know your rights:
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Presenters
Bruce Ridley
Copyright Compliance Office
Curtin University Library
Janice Chan
Coordinator, Research ServicesCurtin University Library
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Session Objectives
Choosing a reputable journal or publisherVanity and predatory publishers
How to avoid them?
Publisher agreement
Licences and copyright
Negotiate your rightsShare your works (espace, ResearchGate etc)
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Choosing a reputable journal or publisher
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Quality
Prestige
Reach
Excellence in Research for Australia journal list
Indexed by Scopus or Web of Science?
Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ)Slide5
Choosing a reputable journal or publisher
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Quality
Prestige
Turn-
around
time
Reach
Editorial team and contributors
Well known publisher?
Affiliated to a reputable organisation?
Quality
Quality
Excellence in Research for Australia journal
list
Indexed by Scopus or Web of Science?
Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ)Slide6
Choosing a reputable journal or publisher
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Quality
Prestige
Reach
Editorial team and contributors
Well known publisher?
Affiliated to a reputable organisation?
Does it work with your timeline?
Turn-
around
timeSlide7
Choosing a reputable journal or publisher
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Quality
Prestige
Turn-
around
time
Reach
Check out our
LibGuides
:
Disseminate
research
findings
Measure research impact and quality
Does it work with your timeline?
Format and media
Your target audience
Is it open access?
If not, does it allow self-archiving?Slide8
Vanity and predatory publishers
Predatory publishers are in business for a quick profitTarget early career researchersCharge
a relatively modest
fee
Offer to promote your publications when they have no intention of doing so
Many are short-lived, no preservation planBeall’s List of Predatory Publishers?List of publishers:
http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
List of standalone journals:
http://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/
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No peer review
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http://
www.saem.org/docs/2014-am-handouts/open-access-and-predatory-journals.pdf?sfvrsn=2Slide10
No quality control
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http://
www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/03/lap_lambert_academic_publishing_my_trip_to_a_print_content_farm.html
Swinburne
University LAP
publishing
FAQ
http
://www.research.swinburne.edu.au/researchers/resources/lap-publishingSlide12
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http://
chrisnf.blogspot.com.au/2009/06/academic-spam.html
Recruit works by spamming researchersSlide13
Include researchers in their publicity without approval
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http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/lecturers-name-removed-from-board-of-predatory-journal/2013764.article#.
U5QNQy3HgDo.twitter
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Mimic reputable publishers
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http://
www.saem.org/docs/2014-am-handouts/open-access-and-predatory-journals.pdf?sfvrsn=2Slide15
Don’t fall for their trap!
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http://
weblog.library.tudelft.nl/en/2013/02/07/open-access-uitgevers-als-roofdier
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Publisher agreements
When submitting article for publication, academic authors normally have to sign an agreement (aka copyright agreement or copyright transfer form). This forms a contract between author and publisher:
which either transfers full copyright ownership to publisher (an assignment)
or allows publisher to exercise certain rights to use copyright material (an exclusive or non-exclusive licence).
These can be divisible by territory, duration, and type of use.
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Publisher agreements
Need to check terms of publishing agreement re. ownership of copyright and right to re-use own material. The rights an author retains will affect subsequent control of the work.Wide variety of Publisher agreements – some are more generous/restrictive than others.
Established academic publishers normally require authors to assign (i.e. surrender) copyright.
Open Access publishers generally allow author to retain all or most rights.
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Points for authors to note:
Have I retained copyright or transferred copyright to the publisher?
Am I allowed to deposit the article/paper in an institutional repository (such as
espace
) or a subject repository (such as the SSRN)?
Can I post the article to scholarly sharing sites (such as ResearchGate or Academia.edu) or share copies with my academic colleagues?Can I place a copy of the article/paper on my personal website? [These uses involve reproduction & communication.]
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Terminology for different versions of journal articles
Publishing agreements / policies may include permissions or restrictions that apply to specific versions of journal article. These versions are:
Pre-print (aka the submitted version or submitted manuscript) = version as first submitted to publication for peer review.
Post-print (aka the accepted version or accepted manuscript) = version accepted for publication, including revisions suggested by referees, but without copy-editing and formatting supplied by publisher.
Published version (aka version of record or publisher PDF) – formatted, paginated version as published in journal.
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Assignment of copyright
With traditional publishing arrangements author normally assigns/transfers copyright interest to publisher.Publisher becomes copyright owner for the time period, territories and purposes set out in the contract.
Publisher controls how work may be used - author may need to seek permission to re-use work elsewhere.
Publisher will receive any copyright royalties that are generated.
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Exclusive licence
Author retains copyright ownership but publisher has exclusive right to publish article during period of licence.Author is not allowed to re-use material during this time unless expressly permitted to do so under terms of licence.
Control over whether pre-print, post-print or publisher version of article can be made available online in Open Access resides with publisher.
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Non-exclusive licence
Author retains copyright ownership but grants publisher a licence to publish for specified period.Author can grant others the same non-exclusive right, or use the work for their own purposes.
Control over whether pre-print, post-print or publisher version of article can be made available online in Open Access remains with author.
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Retention of rights
Terms of agreement determine whether or not pre-print, post-print or publisher versions can be made available in Open Access.Agreements usually contain terms that allow authors to retain certain limited rights to deal with material – e.g., permission to include copy in a repository under certain conditions (such as imposing embargo period).
More than 65% of subscription-based journals allow for self-archiving a version of the published manuscript.
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Negotiating your rights
Before assigning your copyright it might be possible to negotiate with publisher to get more favourable terms, retain more rights – e.g. by adding an addendum to standard publisher’s agreement.
Note SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) addendum to secure author’s rights – see http://sparc.arl.org/resources/authors/addendum
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Elements included in “Agreement to Publish”
The article is accepted for publication in the [Name of Journal] on the basis that:
The article is the sole and original work of the named author(s), and all material from other sources has been clearly acknowledged and referenced.
The article has not been published or submitted for publication in any other journal or medium.
The article does not contain any material that infringes the copyright of a third party.
The author(s) has/have obtained written permission wherever necessary to reproduce or adapt illustrations or text in which the copyright is held by another party.The article does not contain any offensive, defamatory or illegal material.
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Submitting manuscripts
If you submit work to publisher on a speculative basis, be careful that publisher doesn’t go ahead and publish work on basis of an ‘implied licence’.Include covering letter outlining terms on which you are offering a licence to publish, or explaining that work is submitted for publisher’s consideration only – if the publisher is interested they should contact you to negotiate terms.
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Publisher agreements
Publisher should agree to publish and market the work within an agreed time frame. Granting of rights should be for limited duration – not in perpetuity or for full copyright period. Rights should then revert to author.
Author should have right to approve editorial revisions.
Author should be properly attributed, and work should carry copyright notice.
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Publishers’ policies
Useful websites are Sherpa-Romeo - http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ and
OAKList
http://www.oaklist.qut.edu.au/
These sites provide information on publishers’ standard policies regarding ownership of copyright -
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Sherpa-Romeo list
Sherpa-Romeo list uses different colours to indicate four categories of archiving rights:Green – can archive pre-print and post-print or publisher’s version/pdf
Blue – can archive post-print (ie. final draft post –refereeing) or publisher’s version/pdf
Yellow - can archive pre-print (ie. pre-refereeing)
White – archiving not formally supported.
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Publishers’ policies
Check websites of major academic publishers to see what terms and conditions are contained in their standard publisher agreements, and what rights are retained by authors. For example:
Elsevier - http://www.elsevier.com/journal-authors/author-rights-and-responsibilities
Wiley-Blackwell -
http://authorservices.wiley.com.dbgw.lis.curtin.edu.au/bauthor/faqs_copyright.asp
Taylor & Francis - http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/Emerald Group -
http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/authors/index.htmSage - http://www.sagepub.com/journalgateway/authorGateway.htm
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Creative Commons Licensing
Many open access journals apply the Creative Commons range of licences.Traditional publishers (e.g. Springer and Nature Publishing Group) also publish articles using CC licensing.
Authors retain their copyright, usually under the ‘paid open access’ model.
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Creative Commons Licensing
Liberalises use of a work, without giving up copyright. A CC license allows work to be disseminated within a legal framework.Allow more flexible use of works – copy, share or distribute, re-mix, display or perform publicly, shift to another format.
Reserve some rights / conditions – may require attribution, non-commercial uses, no derivative works, share-alike licence.
For further information see
http://creativecommons.org/
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Copyright and espace@Curtin
Library staff check publishers’ policies on copyrighted material before placing articles in espace. The full text is only included if one of the following applies:The author has retained the copyright for the material and allows permission.
The copyright agreement between publisher and author allows the full text to be made available.
Permission has been granted by the publisher on request.
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References
Monash University Library: Vanity and predatory publishing
http://
monash.edu/library/about/ul-vanity-publishing.pdf
Swinburne’s
LAP publishing pagehttp://www.research.swinburne.edu.au/researchers/resources/lap-publishing/Spotting the ‘predatory’ publisher
http://researchsupporthub.northampton.ac.uk/2014/01/17/spotting-the-predatory-publisher/
I Sold My Undergraduate Thesis to a Print Content Farm
http://
www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/03/lap_lambert_academic_publishing_my_trip_to_a_print_content_farm.html
Predatory journals: the landscape of peer review publication in the open access
era
http://www.saem.org/docs/2014-am-handouts/open-access-and-predatory-journals.pdf?sfvrsn=2
Journal manuscript versioning chart
http://
www.adelaide.edu.au/library/digital/ars/AcceptedVersions_Colour.pdf
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Questions?
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