"License to Publish" reports

Abstract

The project ”License to Publish” has now reported. The project is a collaboration between Copenhagen University Library & Information Service and Stockholm University. The project is an experimental Open Access awareness outreach campaign with its starting point in both hprint.org, the humanities and social science repository, and a legal translation into all thr five Nordic languages of the SURFfoundation/JISC document ”License to Publish.” 

Short notice by Mikkel Christoffersen, DEFF konsulent & Nordbib programme manager here:”License to Publish” is a legal document researchers may use wholly or partly in dealings with publishers to retain their right to self-archive their own work. The translation work uncovered some interesting differences in the various law complexes of the European countries concerning copyright and intellectual property rights and has led to renewed discussion about the content and wording of ”License to Publish.” The outreach campaign case studies met with some well-known reservations on behalf of researchers – e.g. unawareness of some of the basic tenets of Open Access – as well as new ones; e.g. that some researchers are worried that their peer reviewed final drafts may be ”contaminated” by documents of lesser quality in institutional repositories"
The final report and case study results, conclusions and recommendations can be seen on the project page here http://nordbib.net/Projects/License-to-Publish.aspx .