Licence to Publish
Working with the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), SURF has produced a special licence allowing scientists and scholars to hold onto their copyright. The Licence to Publish is aimed at scientists and scholars who publish in periodicals that utilise the “subscription model”.
The licence stipulates that:
- The author grants the publisher permission for commercial activities involving his publication, for example publishing it in printed or digital form, translating it, or adapting it.
- The author retains the right to duplicate the publication in the form in which the publisher publishes it, or to reuse it or publish it via the repository of the institution where the author works.
- The author, at the request of the publisher, will delay publication via the repository until six months after publication by the publisher.
The last of these three provisions, in particular, is intended to comply with the interests of publishers. The licence therefore aims to achieve a balance between the rights of the author on the one hand and the interests of the publisher on the other. In this way, it attempts to ensure the best possible access to the results of scientific and scholarly research.
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