Hello All,
I read the following information on eprints's FAQs.
http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/self-faq/#publisher-forbids
"What if the publisher forbids preprint self-archiving?
The right to self-archive the refereed postprint is a legal matter,
because the copyright transfer agreement pertains to that text. But the
pre-refereeing preprint is self-archived at a time when no copyright
transfer agreement exists and the author holds exclusive and full
copyright to that draft. So publisher policy forbidding prior
self-archiving of preprints is not a legal matter, but merely a journal
policy matter (just as it would be if the journal were to forbid the
submission of papers by authors with blue-eyed uncles!). (It would
become a legal matter -- but a contractual matter, not a copyright one
-- if the author were to sign a contract explicitly stating that the
unrefereed preprint had not been previously self-archived online.
Obviously an author should strike such arbitrary stipulations out of any
contract.) "
Do you all follow this and upload the preprint when you do not
specifically see a clause forbidding self-archiving the preprint? Or do
you 'play it safe' and not upload even a preprint when the copyright
agreement says something to the extent of "self-archiving the paper is
not allowed"? Currently for my IR, I am playing it safe. So, for ACS, I
do not let even the preprint go up due to Clause A in this document:
http://pubs.acs.org/instruct/copyright.pdf
Do you think this is wise, or overly-cautious?
Thanks!
Amanda Piegza
Institutional Repository and Digital Collections Librarian
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Curtis Laws Wilson Library
Phone: 573-341-4221
Fax: 573-341-4233
Visit Scholars' Mine, Missouri University of Science and Technology's
institutional repository, at:
http://scholarsmine.mst.edu/
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