05.12.2018
Confused about copyright? Assessing Researchers’ Comprehension of Copyright Transfer Agreements
« Academic authors’ confusion about copyright and publisher policy is often cited as a challenge to their effective sharing of their own published research, from having a chilling effect on selfarchiving in institutional and subject repositories, to leading to the posting of versions of articles on social networking sites in contravention of publisher policy and beyond. This study seeks to determine the extent to which authors understand the terms of these policies as expressed in publishers’ copyright transfer agreements (CTAs), taking into account such factors as the authors’ disciplines and publishing experience, as well as the wording and structure of these agreements. (…) »
source > jlsc-pub.org, Alexandra Kohn, Jessica Lange, 3 décembre 2018, https://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.2253
