Dear Liblicense subscribers,
You may recall that COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) convened a Task Force to review current practices for open access licensing clauses.
At the upcoming ICOLC meeting in Lisbon, Portugal I would like to present the results of this review and an overview of existing OA clauses in publishers licenses.
In an effort to provide the most up-to-date information, I would like to ask if you have any updates about new clauses or licenses in the past year. Can you please get in touch if you are currently working on this type of language in your license, and/or have introduced language into your licenses related to:
(1) rights for deposit into a repository
(2) rights to re-use content (e.g. text/content mining)
"Notwithstanding any terms or conditions to the contrary in any author agreement between authors and Licensor, authors who are Authorized Users of Licensee (“Authors” whose work (“Content”) is accepted for publication by Licensor during the Term shall retain the non-exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free right to use their Content for scholarly and educational purposes, including self-archiving or depositing the Content in institutional, subject-based, national or other open repositories or archives (including the author’s own web pages or departmental servers), and to comply with all grant or institutional requirements associated with the Content." (pg. 2-3)
I'd also be very interested to hear about any experiences or lessons you have to pass on to others in terms of strategies for implementing such clauses.
I will make sure that any new information I receive is shared (anonymously, if requested) with the list and via the Task Force website.
Thanks in advance,
Kathleen
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Kathleen Shearer
Executive Director, COAR
Skype: kathleen.shearer2