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Alice, The response from publishers in the UK to the JISC/SURF Licence to Publish has been to express preference to use their own Licence to Publish. We have no problem with this if the publisher's wording allows the author to retain the same rights as expressed in the JISC/SURF Licence, and by and large they do. What is needed is more advocacy with authors to make them aware that a publisher will often have a Licence to Publish which they will use if the author requests it. If the author does not ask to use a Licence to Publish, most publishers' default position is to ask the author to sign a copyright assignment contract. The answer to your second question is that we have not found a good way of reaching out to authors, given the very large number of academic authors, but we are seeing a growing interest from authors in copyright issues. That growing interest provides an opportunity. Fred Friend JISC Scholarly Communication Consultant Honorary Director Scholarly Communication UCL Land-line +44 1494 563168 Mobile +44 7747 627738 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alice Keefer" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 7:49 PM Subject: License to publish Hello, In the course of a project involving several Spanish universities, a question arose about the level of acceptance of the SURF/JISC "License to publish" and so I'm passing it to members of this list: 1. Have publishers readily accepted it in lieu of their own contracts? If so, which ones? If not, have some been willing to modify their license clauses? 2. Are authors now actively (and willingly) proposing its use to publishers when they submit articles? Has anyone found a particularly good way of reaching out to authors to convince them to use the license? Many thanks! Alice Keefer ******************************************* Alice Keefer <[log in to unmask]> Tel. 93 403 5781; Fax 93 403-5772 Universitat de Barcelona Facultat de Biblioteconomia i Documentació c/Melcior de Palau, 140 08014 Barcelona ******************************************* ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/