"The author has indicated that she believes she owns copyright of this version"
Yes I've worked with some who believed that sort of thing as well despite it being very clear that that was not the case. Proven by the fact that in this case the work in question was pre 2007 and so pre OA mandates. Backed up by the agreement with the publishers stating they had signed over copyright.
And I'm not apportioning blame but has the institutional repository mentioned got permission to have copies of those previous books available? Or is it held in an embargo'd form? Another thing that needs to be checked. We often have to trust authors with what they give us but if questioned the situation should all be able to be proved. Believing something is not a valid response really.
I'd ask the author to provide the paperwork from the publisher stating they have the right to do what they like with the AAM. After all they might be able to do many things, some things or nothing with it depending on the publisher or indeed the book series/imprint they are published in. And if it's all fine so much the better and their material can be made available to all.
Kevin
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