Copyright transfer agreements and self-archiving

ABSTRACT

Concerns about intellectual property rights are a significant barrier to the practice of scholarly self-archiving in institutional and other types of digital repositories. This introductory level, half-day tutorial will demystify the journal copyright transfer agreements (CTAs) that often are the source of these rights concerns of scholars. In addition, participants will be introduced to the deposit processes of self-archiving in an interdisciplinary repository and open access archive (OAA), such as DLIST, Digital Library for Information Science and Technology.

REFERENCES

• 1: DLIST. Digital Library for Information Science and Technology. <http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu>
• 2: Harnad, S. For whom the gate tolls? <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0000.html>
• 3: Suber, P. Open access news. <http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html>
• 4: Research Support Tool <http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/demos/rsttour/>
• 5: Creative Commons <http://creativecommons.org/>

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  J. Computer Applications
  J.7 COMPUTERS IN OTHER SYSTEMS
      Subjects: Publishing

General Terms:
Legal Aspects

Keywords:
open access archives, scholarly communication, self-archiving