# Publishers' license agreements Welcome to hell! November 2019 Angélique Boschung, Anthony Hunziker & Manon Velasco  --- :clock10: ## Agenda | Time | Activity | | ---: | :------ | | 09:30 | Welcome and introduction | | 10:00 | Reading publishers' agreements | | 11:00 | Tips for negociations | | 11:30 | *END* | --- ## Introduction ---- ### Important concepts ---- 1. Legal framework 1. Versions: from manuscript to journal article 1. Open access: business models 1. Agreement for a publication 1. Licenses you need to know ---- ### Legal framework: * Berne convention (1886) * Federal Act on Copyright and Related Rights ---- ### Versions of your manuscript: * preprint version * postprint version * final version ---- Publishers use various terms See our glossary ---- ### Open Access: definition *By "open access" [...], we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.* Source: Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002) ---- ### Open Access: definition *The only constraint on reproduction and distribution and the only role for copyright in this domain should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.* Source: Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002) ---- ### Open Access concerns... * Journals * Books * Other type of publications ---- Open access can be: * Gold open access * Hybrid open access ----  ---- What about Green open access? ---- ## Contract *Agreement between two or more persons or entities in which there is a promise to do something in return for a valuable benefit known as consideration.* **Source:** contract. (n.d.) Burton’s Legal Thesaurus, 4E. (2007). Retrieved November 12 2019 from https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/contract ---- ### Publishing agreement * two contractive parties: * Author(s) * Publisher * Contract purpose: publishing of a paper in exchange of the total or partial transfer of copyright ---- Addendum Ex: [EPFL author amendement](https://www.epfl.ch/about/overview/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Author_Amendment__Extended_Rights_EN.pdf) ---- ### Licenses Licenses [Creative Commons](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/?lang=en) --- ### Reading publishers' agreements 1. Read 1 contract in group 2. For each contract, answer to 3 questions ---- 1. Do you own the copyright? 2. Do you have the right to post your postprint somewhere else? 3. Do you have the right to reuse your article? ---- | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | | -------- | -------- | -------- | |   |   |  | --- ### Tips for negotiations ---- As a future author... ---- Check the publisher's guidelines for authors ---- Use Copyright link in [Sherpa Romeo](http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php) ---- Guidelines can vary... * ... depending journal policy (even among same publisher) * if you choose OA option for your article * after a certain amount of time... ---- As a teacher... ---- Think about retaining rights to develop OER ---- As a reuser of a published work... ---- Use the permission form ---- Publishers integrate it in their webpages ex: Rightslink (Copyright Clearance Center) ---- Archive all your permissions and contracts --- :question: ## Another concern in mind? --- ## Go further... Open access explained by your librarians: click [here](https://www.epfl.ch/campus/library/services/services-researchers/open-access/) --- ## Go further... Copyright issues & publications [https://go.epfl.ch/copyright](https://go.epfl.ch/copyright) --- ## Ask for help publish-support.bib@epfl.ch --- ## Evaluation Please, take 5 minutes to fill the evaluation form. Thanks! --- ## Next trainings https://www.epfl.ch/campus/library/services/training/ --- ## Credits Publishing models by C. Fuerer CC-BY-NC --- ## About  Presentation published under CC BY license Latest version of this presentation on [go.epfl.ch/contracts](go.epfl.ch/contracts) ---