One Reason for institutional repositories
Just came accross a situation at another University where a tutor wanted to reference journal articles on the author’s own web pages. The author might or might not own the copyright and therefore might or might not be legally able to make those articles available in the way that s/he has.
How confident can the tutor who wants to link to those articles be that the content is in fact legal? Although the author puts out a disclaimer allowing visitors to print the material, if the author has no right to do so then is the tutor who references the website in fact supporting his/her students to make illegal copies since the students might make copies in good faith that the disclaimer is legal.
If the content were hosted within an institutional repository then we could be confident that some procedures had been followed to verify the copyright status of the items in the repository.
Jenny Delasalle
14 Jul 2006 16:24
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Gaz
That's where the world famous SHERPA/RoMEO (link) site comes in making it obvious for authors/libraries just what rights are retained by authors at particular publishers. We're working on updating the software as well so it gives a cleaner breakdown at the journal level, as a fair old range of publishers like to change their author rights between individual titles.
17 Aug 2006, 09:16
Jenny Delasalle
Hi Gareth,
Good to hear from you. Sounds like you're doing well, from what I hear…
I've been enjoying my secondment to Careers whilst keeping my hand in one day a week at the library. It's not quite long enough to maintain the blog properly, though!
Jen
18 Aug 2006, 16:19
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