Scientific/ scholarly Publications
Scientific/ scholarly Publications
SURF is interested in the policy-related aspects of copyright in the scientific/scholarly publication process. SURFdirect has therefore set up a website on this topic: Copyright in Higher Education. The site enables SURFfoundation to disseminate the relevant knowledge and expertise that it has acquired in recent years.
The website offers the following:
• general information on copyright and the Dutch Copyright Act [Auteurswet]: FAQs and an explanation of the Dutch Copyright Act;
• a look at copyright in higher education from the vantage point of the parties involved, their mutual relationships and their specific interests;
• practical tools to help authors and organisations arrange their copyright in scientific/scholarly works.
Many of the practical tools were developed in collaboration with SURFfoundation’s DARE programme and with JISC, SURFfoundation’s sister organisation in the UK. Examples include the Copyright Toolbox for authors, the Licence to Publish for organisations, and public relations material.
Author rights, your rights
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SURFdirect, SURF’s digital rights expert community, has produced a short film on Author rights, your rights.
In a short film (2,5 minute) Dirk Visser, Professor of intellectual property law at Leiden University and Martijn Katan, Professor of Nutrition at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam make a point of copyright being author rights. Therefore the author must always carefully consider whether it is a good idea to transfer his copyright to a publisher, and in most cases this is not a good idea and even unnecessary. More and more publishers see reason and accept that a complete transfer of rights cannot be demanded from authors.
The video is available for the public to view, download, and use under a CC-BY license.
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