I second Stephanie's suggestion that authors should avoid transferring
all their rights to commercial publishers. I believe I sent an email
about this recently, but I'll put the link here again. This “Author
Addendum” ensures that the article will have the widest possible
distribution and impact on the scholarly community:
http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/icaz/icazForum/viewtopic.php?t=1101
You can fill out and attach this addendum to the publisher's copyright
agreement before you send it in. The addendum allows authors to retain
rights for non-commercial distribution of their scholarly work
(including making it available in open access, self-archiving
repositories).
All the best,
Sarah
Stephanie Meece wrote:
> On Jul 10 2009, Christian Küchelmann wrote:
>
>> That would be something well worth to be placed on Bone Commons to
>> provide access for everybody if Angela von den Driesch agrees.
>
> It certainly would be useful to have all our essential field manuals
> available for free download. But it is her publisher who would have to
> agree, not her, as the publisher owns the copyright in the work. It
> might be worth writing to them, but if the book is still in print it
> is very unlikely they will give permission for its free distribution.
>
> Academic authors should look at Creative Commons licensing, and avoid
> transferring all their rights to commercial publishers as much as
> possible.
>
> http://creativecommons.org/
>
>
> best wishes
> Stephanie Meece
>
>
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