Should faculty members refuse to give up their copyright on journal articles that they publish?
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At his explicit request, I gave Professor Harnad four reasons why it might not be a good idea for professors to share copyright with the university..."
Copyright must be with the author, not with the publisher..."
Professor Ransdell does not trust university administrations, and his mistrust is so great that he rejects as a Trojan Horse the Koonin proposal..."
The only reason given for the Koonin proposal that the author share copyright with the institution..."
Arthur Smith's apologia for Elsevier copyright policy can be completely understood (and rejected) as being based on a false opposition..."
From the point of view of the contributor to a scholarly or scientific discipline..."
"Bravo, Mr. Koonin but how do academics replace publisher brands?..."
"Stevan Harnad wrote: (1) I write a paper. It consists of the following..."
"The defense -- and responding attack concerning publishers' 'value-added' is the reason peer-reviewed journals have long been regarded with suspicion..."
"Arthur Smith fail[s] to see how [Elsevier's] copyright policy is, as Stevan Harnad put it, '[so] manifestly incoherent and tortuous as to be almost ludicrous,..."
"In defense of Elsevier and Karen Hunter I fail to see how their copyright policy is,..."
"It might be helpful to remind those interested in the copyright issue that, FIRST, the author of a scholarly document has copyright initially..."
"On Saturday, Sept. 19, 1998, Steve Koonin replied to the question..."
"One can only hope that Professor Ransdell's ominous premises about conflicts of interest between scholars and their institutions..."
"There is no demonization involved in noting that university administrators do not typically regard themselves as..."
"The complexity of this issue is evident from the 'can of worms' effect in the responses..."
"We certainly want no further 'Faustian Pacts,' but before demonizing the University and its motivations in becoming the author's ally in copyright we need more..."
"The proposal in question concerns conjoint holding of copyright by the university and the professor, not by the faculty tenure and promotion committee and the professor. There are many reasons why..."
"Elsevier Science policy needs to be thought through again, very carefully, because injunctions like..."
"Professor Harnad suggests that although 'the idea of joint ownership..."
"I would like to correct one item in what was included in the article about what I said. The Elsevier Science policy..."
"The idea of joint ownership of research reports by the author..."
"Stevan Harnad's statement that Provost Koonin's initiative is..."
"Some of us get paid for writing, you know. Some academics also rely on patents, performances, and art sales to supplement their salaries..."
"These publications are the products of faculty intellect and universities. Commercial publishers speak about their added value and editing..."
"As I outlined at some length in an article on the 'Incoherence of Science Policy'..."
"The answer to this question depends (of course) on where one is coming from. From the point of view of the scholar,..."
"This is an interesting discussion, particularly from the perspective (mine) of a private sector, biotechnology research librarian and knowledge officer specializing in science and medicine..."
"Steve Koonin's initiative is commendable, but it should not be pursued only by Cal Tech but by all universities..."
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