Hello!How are you dealing with the copyright problems of wide distribution of reprints? I am trying to get more info about this for my institution (Wadsworth Center, NY State Dept of Health, Albany, NY USA) There appear to be limitations to redistributing imposed by the publisher's contracts for e-journal subscriptions to our Library. What is your experience?
Here are some statements I found on the Web. 1. From http://www.agu.org/pubs/copyright.htmlUsage Permissions Permission is granted for individuals to make single copies for personal use in research, study, or teaching and to use figures, tables, and short quotes from the journal for republication in scientific books and journals. This permission does not extend to posting a copy of the PDF or HTML created by AGU for publication. There is no charge for any of these uses, ut the material must be cited appropriately. Rights Granted to Authors AGU?s philosophy recognizes the need to ensure that authors have a say in how their works are used and the necessity to foster broad dissemination of scientific literature while protecting the viability of the publication system. The following nonexclusive rights are granted to AGU authors:
? All proprietary rights other than copyright (such as patent rights) ? The right to present the material orally ? The right to reproduce figures, tables, and extracts properly cited? The right to make paper copies of all or part of the contribution for classroom use
? The right to deny subsequent commercial use of the contribution? The right to place the contribution or its abstract on his/her personal Web site as described below. Policies Posting article to author?s Web site Authors may post their unformatted papers or their abstracts to their own Web sites or their departmental Web sites according to the guidelines listed below. If authors wish to post preprints of their articles on other sites, they should be aware of the relevant part of the Dual publication policy that deals with preprints
Thanks Donald Parsons dfp10@capital.net Quoting elw@stderr.org:
I was informed by the mentors list that the science group was the place to come to look for advice and possible sponsorship to get this package into the debian package tree. Details as follows:I can't sponsor you (not a DD), but I'm glad that you've packaged this. It is a handy package for those of us who might be building reprint/preprint repositories... --eThe bug is #171968 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=171968 * Package name : eprints Version : 3.0.1-1 Upstream Author : Christopher Gutteridge * URL : http://www.eprints.org * License : GPL (v2 or later) Section : web eprints - Content Management System for Information Archiving EPrints is a web-based content management system. It allows a large number of contributors to share their digital objects/documents with others. Contributors provide descriptive data (metadata) which is dependent on the type of object being deposited (presentations, articles, books etc.). Before being published objects must be accepted by an editor. Users can access published objects through web-page listings, searches, email alerts or via integration with other systems. ==So it is basically an OAI compliant archive for sharing publications, which is it's primary focus. Although it can be used to host a great number of different files for different purposes.Some examples of companies using it: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/ http://eprints.rclis.org/ http://openmed.nic.in/I have built the package, lintain clean into the debian mentors repository and would appreciate any advice of suitability for submitting to the debian package tree.Many Thanks David Tarrant -- EPrints Debian Maintainer School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton UK-- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-science-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org