Self Archiving FAQ
Kerim Friedman
In talking to people about the importance of self-archiving their
work, I've run into a lot of confusion and misinformation. The problem
is that IP law is complicated, and I myself am unable to give simple
answers to complicated questions. To this end, I think we could do a
lot for the cause if we created the bestest self-archiving FAQ ever.
So far, I have only been able to find this one from e-prints:
http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/self-faq/
It contains far too much information and detail for most people. I'd
like to make something more like a flow-chart which could guide people
through the process of determining whether they can legally
self-archive a particular work or not. Something like this:
Is the publisher an AAA journal? Yes --- > Was it published after 19XX
(whenever the UC press contracts went into effect)? Yes ---> Great,
you are allowed to self archive?
Yes ---> No ---> Do you have a preprint version you can archive
instead of the final version? Yes ---> You are good to go.
You get the idea. But with better graphics and information. As well as
a section for people who haven't signed a contract yet.
Anyone want to work on this with me?
kerim
hjarvis
to keep appraise dof the results.
For starters, you might find these two resources very useful:
SPARC Resources for Authors
http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/
- this is THE resource for legal advice to authors
- help for making a self-publishing or other addendum to a publishing
contract
SHERPA/RoMEO Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
- look up publisher/journal to see how "green" it is (e.g. American
Anthropologist is full green)
Hugh Jarvis
(AAA CFPEP Cmt member)
Alex Golub
is also supposedly working on a documentation project like this.
In part my blog entry on my experience publishing with Sage was an
attempt to do this.
http://savageminds.org/2007/12/19/an-open-access-case-study/
I'd be happy to look over your work or help, just don't have the
time/energy to start it. Adapting the SPARC stuff that Hugh points to
and making it Anthro-specific would be awesome.
-A
Kerim Friedman
together. The one I liked best was Gliffy. I've sent you both invites
to collaborate with me on a flowchart. Once its done we can always
redo it in another program to make it pretty, but Gliffy's
collaboration tools seem quite nice. The only problem I had was with
Firefox 3 on my mac I couldn't copy-and-paste in Gliffy.
For those who are curious here is the public view of the flowchart,
where you can monitor its development (I just quickly threw some text
up there for now):
http://www.gliffy.com/publish/1361301/
Anyone who'd like to join us, just send me an e-mail. The more the merrier!
Cheers,
kerim