[A2k] Addenda to enable authors to retain some rights and other good stories in D-Lib

[Manon Ress]

D-Lib Magazine
November 2006

Volume 12 Number 11

ISSN 1082-9873

Balancing the Rights of Authors and Publishers

In this issue of D-Lib Magazine, you will find an article by Peter
Hirtle, who was Associate Editor of this magazine for two years (from
June 1999 to May 2001). Among his other responsibilities, he
currently serves as the Intellectual Property Officer for the Cornell
University Library.

Peter's article describes an analysis he has done concerning various
forms of addenda that enable authors to retain some rights in their
works, provided the addendum is acceptable to the publisher of the
journal in which the author's work will be published. Although Peter
has looked at several types of author addenda, he has limited his
discussion to five addenda that "are likely to be legally binding".
Whether or not such addenda become widely accepted by publishers
remains to be seen, but Peter's article presents the problems and
possible solutions in a thorough and thoughtful way.

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november06/hirtle/11hirtle.html

Also in this issue, in the "In the News" section, you can find an
October 25 press release from SURF and JISC [1] entitled "Balancing
rights and interests in the digital age". (A link to the license to
which the press release refers can be found at the SURF "Copyright
Toolbox" web page at <http://www.surf.nl/copyrighttoolbox/authors/>.)

Scholarly publishing has been undergoing many changes and facing many
challenges over the past few years. Some of those challenges are
being met with innovative solutions, and others have proven more
intractable. As a community we need to work towards a solution that
balances the rights of both authors and publishers while
simultaneously realizing the advances in access and collaboration
enabled by continuing technological advances.

Bonita Wilson
Editor


[1] SURF is the Dutch higher education and research partnership
organisation for network services and information and communications
technology. JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) is a joint
committee of the UK further and higher education funding bodies and
is responsible for supporting the innovative use of information and
communication technology (ICT) to support learning, teaching, and
research.


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