Academic Libraries and Copyright: Do Librarians Really Have the Required Knowledge?
Authors: Juan-Carlos Fernández-Molina, João Batista E. Moraes, José Augusto C. Guimarães A solid professional performance on the part of academic librarians at ...
Étiquette : copyright
Openness of Spanish scholarly journals as measured by access and rights
Authors : Remedios Melero, Mikael Laakso, Miguel Navas-Fernández Metrics regarding Open Access (OA) availability for readers and the enablers of redistribution ...
Access, ethics, and piracy
Author : Stuart Lawson Open access has been progressively making more scholarship openly available. But a majority of journal articles are still behind paywalls...
Copyright and the Use of Images as Biodiversity Data
Authors : Willi Egloff, Donat Agosti, Puneet Kishor, David Patterson, Jeremy A. Miller Taxonomy is the discipline responsible for charting the world’s org...
Open Access, Open Science, Open Society
Open Access’ main goal is not the subversion of publishers’ role as driving actors in an oligopolistic market characterised by reduced competition and higher pr...
Who Owns This Article? Applying Copyright’s Work-Made- for-Hire Doctrine to Librarians’ Scholarship
The Copyright Act of 1976 provides that works—including scholarship—written within the scope of employment belong to employers. But copyright ...
The implications of the new UK Open Access policies on the ownership of copyright in academic publishing
The issue of who owns the copyright in works produced by academics during employment is not new. The practice is that academics, as authors – copyright cr...