From: David Prosser <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:51:49 +0000

Having discovered that the majority of authors do not approve of the
commercial reuse of their work will Taylor & Francis now suspend the
selling of reprints to third-parties?

David


On 28 Mar 2013, at 23:38, LIBLICENSE wrote:

> From: "Oosman, Aalia" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:42:38 +0000
>
> Oxford, March, 2013
>
> Taylor & Francis survey reveals that commercial re-use of their work
> would be unacceptable to most authors
>
> In the third in a series of Press Releases on the themes and findings
> of the Open Access Survey, Taylor & Francis investigates authors’
> attitudes and values relating to the dissemination of their research
> when publishing in Open Access Journals.
>
> What do authors think about the re-use of their research?
>
> Respondents were asked how acceptable it was for their work to be
> re-used in a variety of ways without their prior knowledge or
> permission, provided they received credit as the original author.
>
> Findings from the survey demonstrate that the opinion from authors on
> overall re-use was fairly evenly distributed. 40% agreed with the
> statement that it was acceptable to have their work re- used in any
> way, 41% did not support this - 18% did not have a strong opinion
> either way.
>
> However, asking specifically about commercial re-use versus
> non-commercial re-use brought up an interesting anomaly.  When asked
> about how acceptable it was for their work to be reused for
> non-commercial gain, 68% of respondents agreed that it was acceptable,
> with 18% deeming unacceptable. When asked their opinion about having
> their work used specifically for commercial gain, however, only 18%
> found this acceptable with 67% deeming this unacceptable.  Therefore
> we can clearly see that many of the 40% of respondents who had
> originally said it was acceptable for their work to be re-used in any
> way didn’t even consider commercial gain when choosing their answer.
> In fact 46% of those who had agreed that their work could be re-used
> in any way went on to disagree with the idea of their work being
> re-used for commercial gain with a further 16% dropping to a neutral
> position.
>
> Specific types of re-use
>
> Authors were asked also about their attitudes and values relating to
> various specific types of re-use of their work. Support was strongest
> for use in text or data mining, with 48% agreeing this is acceptable,
> and weakest for the adaption of their work, with 50% deeming this
> unacceptable without their prior knowledge or permission. Translation
> or inclusion in an anthology elicited more evenly split responses:
>
> Translation of author’s work- 45% of authors were happy for other to
> translate their work, 39% were not.
>
> Inclusion in an anthology- 45% of authors found it acceptable for
> their work to be re-used in an anthology, 40% considered this
> unacceptable.
>
> Use of author’s work in text or data mining
>
> The finding that almost half of the authors surveyed would find text
> or data mining of their work acceptable is in line with the objectives
> and aims of policy makers such as Research Councils UK and the Welcome
> Trust who are strong advocates of the openness of research via these
> methods.
>
> As noted in last week’s press release, we have taken a number of
> decisions around licensing options for content to be published on an
> Open Access basis. These license choices allow for text and data
> mining, demonstrating that Taylor & Francis have taken feedback from
> our author community, and funder requirements, into account in guiding
> our policies and strategies in this area.
>
> Regional and Subject Differences
>
> This press release is accompanied by Supplement 2 to the original
> report – which examines the subject, regional and country-level
> variations for each question regarding the re-use of authors’ work in
> full: www.tandf.co.uk/journals/explore/open-access-survey-supp2.pdf
>
> There are many subject and regional differences in the responses to
> the questions on re-use and these are not always consistent across the
> different types of re-use. Very broadly speaking authors from
> Mathematics, Computer Sciences and Library and Information Sciences
> tend to have more liberal views towards re-use of their work and those
> from the Arts and Humanities tend to find re-use less acceptable.
>
> Geographically speaking respondents from Latin America and Africa tend
> to be the most consistently accepting across all the re-use questions.
>
> The basic results from the full survey and a copy of the questionnaire
> can be found here and is available under a Creative Commons
> Attribution licence:
> www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/open-access-survey-march2013.pdf
>
> Follow us on Twitter for the latest news on the survey @TandFOpen (#oasurvey).
>
> Visit our newsroom at: http://www.tandfonline.com/page/press-releases
>
> For more information, please contact:
> Victoria Wright, Communications Manager, Taylor & Francis Group Journals
> email: [log in to unmask]