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A licence to Publish

Writing about web page http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2006/10/news_model_surf.aspx

One of the obstacles to any kind of electronic repository of academic writing is that the copyright for that writing is most often owned by the Publisher. Therefore only the publisher can create such a repository, to which they will charge an access fee or else they will charge a large fee for anyone else to have permission to do so.

The institution that funds and supports the research ought to be able to create an electronic collection of academic writing about that research, for sharing within and across the institution.

To this end, academics need support and encouragement when negotiating publication of their writing to retain the copyright. There is now a model agreement that they can follow. (See the linked Jisc news item.)

Such a negotiation could help in the creation of an institutional repository of academic research writing.

However, should an insitutional repository contain academic writings or are there other types of content more suited to populating an institutional repository?

Jenny Delasalle : 06 Dec 2006 11:41 |  Tags: Institutional Repository |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

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 |  Tags: Institutional Repository |  Comments (2) |  Close comments |  Report a problem