RoMEO studies 1: the impact of copyright ownership on academic author self-archiving

doi:10.1108/00220410310698239

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RoMEO studies 1: the impact of copyright ownership on academic author self-archiving

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Title:	RoMEO studies 1: the impact of copyright ownership on academic author self-archiving
Author(s):	Elizabeth Gadd, (Department of Information Science, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK), Charles Oppenheim, (Department of Information Science, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK), Steve Probets, (Department of Information Science, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK)
Citation:	Elizabeth Gadd, Charles Oppenheim, Steve Probets, (2003) "RoMEO studies 1: the impact of copyright ownership on academic author self-archiving", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 59 Iss: 3, pp.243 - 277
Keywords:	Academic staff, Copyright, Document management, Ownership, Publishing, Universities
Article type:	Research paper
DOI:	10.1108/00220410310698239 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	MCB UP Ltd
Abstract:	This is the first of a series of studies emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open-archiving) which investigated the IPR issues relating to academic author self-archiving of research papers. It considers the claims for copyright ownership in research papers by universities, academics, and publishers by drawing on the literature, a survey of 542 academic authors and an analysis of 80 journal publisher copyright transfer agreements. The paper concludes that self-archiving is not best supported by copyright transfer to publishers. It recommends that universities assert their interest in copyright ownership in the long term, that academics retain rights in the short term, and that publishers consider new ways of protecting the value they add through journal publishing.