This is very confusing then. In the small print (icluded below in your
email) there is a reference to a 6 month embargo. On the RoMEO site it
specifically disallows archiving in institutional repositories. What are
we to believe?
Talat
Leslie Carr wrote:
> I have just chased through the latest version of the Wiley-Blackwell
> online authors' guidelines (on which ROMEO is based) to find the
> following:
>
> Wiley-Blackwell Publication Ethics
> http://www.wiley.com/bw/publicationethics/
>
> *8.14 Best Practice: Protecting intellectual property*
> Wiley-Blackwell is legally required to have explicit authority to
> publish any article. The societies we partner with decide which
> copyright arrangement they require from the options we provide, a
> brief and abridged description of which is provided in the bullets
> below. Wiley-Blackwell recommends the Exclusive License Form (ELF)
> system (for a sample form click here
> <http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/IJCP_ELF.pdf>). For more
> information visit the Wiley-Blackwell Copyright FAQs page: click here
> <http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor/faqs_copyright.asp> .
>
> * The Wiley-Blackwell Exclusive License Form (ELF). This form of
> copyright agreement, among other things, enables the owners of
> intellectual property (be they authors or named organizations)
> to retain copyright in their journal articles; Wiley-Blackwell
> or the journal owner retains the commercial publishing and
> journal compilation rights.
> * The Wiley-Blackwell OnlineOpen Exclusive License Form (OOF).
> While allowing articles to be published and made freely
> available for all to access online, this form of copyright
> agreement (among other things and like the ELF) enables the
> owners of intellectual property (be they authors or named
> organizations) to retain copyright in their journal articles;
> the OOF adheres to Creative Commons 2.5 and Wiley-Blackwell or
> the journal owner retains the commercial publishing and journal
> compilation rights.
> * The Copyright Assignment Form (CAF) is also still in use.
>
>
> Note that? Recommends! Wiley-Blackwell recommends the use of the
> Exclusive License form
>
> Extract from the Sample ELF:
> http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/IJCP_ELF.pdf
> *Prior to acceptance:* We ask that as part of the publishing process
> you acknowledge that the Article has been
> submitted to the Journal. You will not prejudice acceptance if you use
> the unpublished Article, in form and
> content as submitted for publication in the Journal, in the following
> ways:
> o sharing print or electronic copies of the Article with colleagues;
> o posting an electronic version of the Article on your own personal
> website, on your employer’s
> website/repository and on free public servers in your subject area.
> • *After acceptance:* Provided that you give appropriate
> acknowledgement to the Journal and Blackwell
> Publishing, and full bibliographic reference for the Article when it
> is published, you may use the accepted version
> of the Article as originally submitted for publication in the Journal,
> and updated to include any amendments
> made after peer review, in the following ways:
> o you may share print or electronic copies of the Article with
> colleagues;
> o you may use all or part of the Article and abstract, without
> revision or modification, in personal
> compilations or other publications of your own work;
> o you may use the Article within your employer’s institution or
> company for educational or research
> purposes, including use in course packs;
> o 6 months after publication you may post an electronic version of the
> Article on your own personal
> website, on your employer’s website/repository and on free public
> servers in your subject area.
> Electronic versions of the accepted Article must include a link to the
> published version of the Article
> together with the following text: ‘The definitive version is available
> at www.blackwell-synergy.com <http://www.blackwell-synergy.com>’.
>
> So you *can* deposit in a repository - preprint and postprint!
>
> HOWEVER one step away (literally) from the W-B "Best Practice
> document" is the W-B "Copyright FAQ" in which they elaborate that
> although the ELF is used for societies, the wholly owned journals
> still retain the practice of Copyright Assignment. The sample
> Copyright Assignment document (for the aptly chosen International
> Headache Society) contains the following text:
> Such preprints may be posted as electronic files on the author's own
> website for personal or professional use, or on the author's internal
> university, college or
> corporate networks/intranet, or secure external website at the
> author's institution, but not for commercial sale or for any
> systematic external distribution by a third party (e.g. a listserve or
> database connected to a public access server).
>
> I *think* that an institutional repository is OK by that definition.
> After all, it is a secre external website at the author's institution
> which is not offering the item for sale nor run by a third party.
> ----
> Les
>
>
>
>
> On 13 Feb 2009, at 13:55, Sheppard, Nick wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>>
>>
>> Already confused trying to steer a path through the labyrinthine
>> copyright policies of assorted publishers I was even more so when I
>> put John Wiley & Sons into RoMEO to discover that it is apparently a
>> green publisher that does not allow deposit in an institutional
>> repository (apart from JASIST authors). Isn’t this a rather unusual
>> condition for a ‘green’ publisher?
>>
>>
>>
>> *Nick Sheppard*
>>
>> Repository Development Officer
>>
>> The Headingley Library
>>
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>>
>> Leeds Metropolitan University
>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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