[Vwoolf] R: Open Access

[James Gifford]

I believe you could argue academia.edu exists for this purpose.  Also, many
publishers have begun to include self-archiving as an explicitly permitted
activity (using the pre-press, pre-edited copy only), and in my experience
OUP now includes this in their contracts for journal content after an
embargo period (one year).

That said, other publishers actively pursue legal action against their own
authors who self-archive, and I've also seen contracts for periodicals that
expressly prohibit it or require copyright be assigned to the publisher.

But I think I'll go back to lurking on the listserv now...

All best,
James

On 25 November 2014 at 10:50, Roy <roy at mantex.co.uk> wrote:

>   In the Open Access debate, I am surprised that there doesn't seem to be
> more awareness of the solution to these problems of academic publishing
> proposed by Steven Harnad almost twenty years ago. He argues very
> persuasively that academics should simply self-archive their research on
> line. The basics of these proposals (and the demolition of objections to
> them) are reviewed here:
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>   http://www.mantex.co.uk/2009/07/13/scholarly-journals-at-the-crossroads/
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>   Further arguments in favour of electronic publishing were advanced only
> a few years later, and are reviewed here:
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>   http://www.mantex.co.uk/2009/07/20/towards-electronic-journals/
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>   And for a ground level view of some of the basic Open Source Research
> issues, see here:
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>   http://www.mantex.co.uk/2010/09/05/open-source-research/
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> Dr Roy Johnson
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> www.mantex.co.uk
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