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4 Legal Issues in the Production, Dissemination, and Use of the Journal Literature
4 Legal Issues in the Production, Dissemination, and Use of the Journal Literature
Pages 40-47
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It only protects the work that describes or expresses the results and analysis of that information. Copyright confers upon the author or copyright owner certain exclusive rights, which include the right to reproduce the work in any medium, including digital; the right to make a derivative work, that is, the right to adapt the work, including updating or making further works based on the first work; the right to distribute the work in copies, including digital copies; and a right that is becoming of increasing importance on the Internet, the right to publicly display the work.
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Finally, the most recent flurry of copyright ownership policies was precipitated by distance education on the Internet. About two-thirds of the universities assert that faculty own the works that they create, subject to a number of fairly typical default-shifting conditions.
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Almost all STM journals publish both in print and in electronic form. Depending on the contract, the author of the article will be permitted to post an abstract of the article with a link to the publisher site, or she may be allowed to post a preprint of the article on her own Web page, or on some other preprint site, but she may not be able to post the final version of the text as edited by the journal.
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The most difficult areas in which to reach agreement have been the terms for interlibrary loans and guarantees of perpetual access and archiving. 2This section is based on the presentation by Ann Okerson, associate university librarian for Collections and Technical Services at Yale University Library.
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Research libraries have indeed attempted to hold onto print subscriptions for their archival and preservation value and to adopt electronic subscriptions to journals for reasons of service and functionality. However, the economic climate is such that many libraries, for lack of resources to support both print and electronic subscriptions, are beginning to drop the print.
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3This section is based on the presentation by Michael Jensen, managing director of the Organizational Strategy Practice at the Monitor Company, and Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration emeritus at Harvard Business School. 4For additional information on SSRN, see its Web site at http://www.ssrn.com/.
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If the university does not assert copyright or grants back the copyright in traditional academic scholarship to the professors, that, of course, transfers the copyright to the professors, and then the professors have something to give to the publishers. It is true, however, that the ambiguity about the actual status of faculty writing potentially affects a lot of publishing contracts as well.
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All the university really requires is that the professor be productive, so how can the university claim copyright? Burdens for Small Publishers in Developing Countries from Licensing and Restricting Access The publishers associated with Bioline International are all typically very small, nonprofit scholarly journals from developing countries.
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