From: "Oosman, Aalia" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:51:53 +0000

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, has been running a Library &
Information Science Author Rights pilot scheme that allows authors to
post their peer-reviewed Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) to an
institutional repository immediately after publication. The two year
pilot scheme, first introduced in 2011, has now been extended for at
least a further year to enable Routledge to consider alternative
approaches to copyright and to find sustainable ways of extending
author rights.

As part of the pilot, a survey was conducted by Routledge to canvas
opinions on the Library & Information Science Author Rights initiative
and also investigated author and researcher behaviour and views on
author rights policies, embargos and posting work to repositories.
The survey, eliciting over 500 responses, offers a fascinating insight
into the current thinking of authors & researchers globally across the
discipline of Library & Information Science. Having the option to
upload their work to a repository directly after publication is very
important to these authors: more than 2/3 of respondents rated the
ability to upload their work to repositories at 8, 9, or 10 out of 10,
with the vast majority saying they feel strongly that authors should
have this right.

The implementation of the author rights pilot saw the number of
respondents who would recommend Routledge as a publishing outlet
increase by 34% while the average willingness to publish with
Routledge on a scale of 1 to 10 increased from 6.6 to 8.3.  The shift
in response from Library and Information Science professionals towards
Routledge’s publishing program before and after the launch of this
initiative practically demonstrates the enthusiasm for immediate
upload of non-embargoed content within the library community.
Routledge is dedicated to developing publishing models that suit the
needs of the Library & Information Science community.

Tracy Roberts, Editorial Director comments “It is clear that the
ability to upload articles to a repository directly after publication
is a key concern for LIS authors. We are delighted to announce that we
have now extended this pilot to the end of 2014 supporting research
within this discipline, as well as affording us additional time to
monitor the effects of this pilot study.”

For further details on the pilot program, visit:
http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/lisrights.asp

For more information, please contact:

Stacy Sieck, Associate Editor, Taylor & Francis Group
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