Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 442.
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[1] From: "Miran Hladnik" <miran.hladnik@guest.arnes.si> (17)
Subject: Self-archiving
[2] From: Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@emory.edu> (34)
Subject: Re: 16.439 self-archiving
[3] From: Ross Scaife <scaife@uky.edu> (12)
Subject: Re: 16.439 self-archiving
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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 06:48:55 +0000
From: "Miran Hladnik" <miran.hladnik@guest.arnes.si>
Subject: Self-archiving
Since 1995 I have been used to put virtually everything I have published
onto the web, include it into my personal library (see
http://www.ijs.si/lit/hlad_bib.html) and advertise it in the discipline's
discussion forum. From my point of view, the main difference between the
self-archiving and web-publication is in the extension of their announcement
and their availability to the audience. For the students' sake I digitised
and htmlized even my pre-computer and pre-web publications. As for
publishers: they mostly agree with the parallel web-publication. Some prefer
I wouldn't point to the web-version of the article prior it is published in
their newspaper or magazine. When it comes to a book, I have been pushing
enough to include the right of (at least partial) parallel web-publication
into the contract with the publisher (e. g.
http://www.ijs.si/lit/spisovn.html). Being the publisher myself (e. g.
http://www.ff.uni-lj.si/sft/) I don't notice any significant flow of the
readers from the book to the web: the book is still being purchased by the
readers. Students grab more and more for web-publications, however I
wouldn't agree their knowledge is now much better than before.
Miran Hladnik
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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 06:49:38 +0000
From: Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@emory.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.439 self-archiving
David,
David Hoover wrote:
>I have been following this thread with interest. My Law librarian friends
>report
>that the trend of looking only at on-line sources is very strong among law
>students as well. Fortunately, law materials have the financial resources
>behind
>them to get most important sources quickly on line.
>
>One question that arises, though, is the nasty issue of copyright. Can we
>legally
>self-archive published work. It would seem not, at least in the case of
>journal
>articles for which we have assigned copyright to the journal. Am I just too
>timid? Is this really not a problem?
As Philip Cadigan reported, many university presses are fairly flexible on
the issue of posting published material to the WWW by authors.
It might be of interest to Humanist readers that Addison-Wesley, a
"commercial" publisher in every sense of the word, has shown similar
flexibility. Consider Elliotte Rusty Harold's most recent work, "Processing
XML with Java," that is available in its entirety at:
http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/xmljava/. Another good example is
National Academy Press, which has more than 2,500 titles available for free
download from their website. (http://www.nap.edu/index.html)
While both of those examples deal with monographs, you can check CiteSeer
(http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/) to see a large number of computer science
papers that also appear in journals and conference proceedings.
My suggestion to authors is to patronize publishers that allow such
practices and shun those that don't.
Patrick
-- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature pdurusau@emory.edu--[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 06:50:05 +0000 From: Ross Scaife <scaife@uky.edu> Subject: Re: 16.439 self-archiving
Mr Cadigan's choice of words strikes me as noteworthy:
>The MIT Press Journals >division *allows* our authors to web-publish/host their articles >independently one year after publication. Our books division is a little >more flexible than that. In our case the publisher still *retains* the >rights...
(emphasis added)
Alternative argument that scholarly authors should not *surrender* the rights to what is after all their own intellectual property:
Peter Suber's "Removing the Barriers to Research: An Introduction to Open Access for Librarians," forthcoming in College & Research Libraries News, 64 (February 2003), available online at
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