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Authors’ Rights and the Library’s Role

Karla HahnDirector, Office of Scholarly CommunicationAssociation of Research Librarieskarla@arl.org

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About ARL

•Membership:

» 123 Research Libraries» North America and Canada

ARL member libraries make up a large portion of the academic and research library marketplace, spending more than $1 billion every year on library materials.

•Affiliate organizations:

» Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)» Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources

Coalition (SPARC)

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ARL’s Program Areas

• Three Strategic Directions:

» Scholarly Communication » Public Policies Affecting Research Libraries » The Library Role in Research, Teaching, and Learning

• Enabling Capabilities

» Statistics and Evaluation» Diversity Initiatives» Leadership Development

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Copyright

• Provides the widest possible freedom and flexibility for faculty and others to employ their work for teaching, learning, and research in a fast-changing technological environment

• Strengthen universities as institutions through which faculty and others can achieve their aspirations for teaching, learning, and research

• Fosters the Constitutionally defined purpose of the copyright law - the encouragement of learning -through the minimally constrained use of copyrighted material in teaching, learning and research

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Why Now?

• Campus discussions of changing scholarly communication system

• Development of institutional and disciplinary repositories

• Availability of publishing amendment documents

• Individuals concerned about making work available in a digital environment

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Creator Rights

• To publish and distribute a work in print or other media

• To reproduce it (e.g., through photocopying)

• To prepare translations or other derivative works

• To perform or display the work publicly

• To authorize others to exercise any of these rights

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Rights Management

These rights may be both segmented and transferred to others. Copyright creators may therefore transfer some or all of these rights to a publisher. The copyright creator may also retain ownership but grant licenses to other parties to exercise one or more of these rights. Copyright licenses may be exclusive or non-exclusive; for a specified period of time or for the full term of the copyright; royalty-free or royalty-bearing; for one medium or many; or defined or restricted in various other ways.

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Creator Options

Option 1 Option 2 Option 3

Continue the common existing practice of transferring ownership of copyrights to publishers, in exchange for

publication.

Reserve some specific rights (e.g., the right to republish an essay in a book, etc.) but otherwise transfer ownership of the copyright to the

publisher.

Retain ownership of the copyright and license to publishers all the rights the publishers need to conduct their

business.

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Balanced Approach

Authors

» Retain copyright

» Use and develop work without restriction to increase access for education and research

» Receive proper attribution

» Deposit work to be permanently and openly accessible

Publishers

» Sell work as authorized and receive reasonable return

» Receive proper attribution and citation for first publication

» May migrate work to future formats and include it in collections

Readers

» May read, print, display, and download work for non-commercial purposes without restriction as long as attributed

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Tools Available

• Author Addendum

» SPARC» Creative Commons/Science Commons» MIT» OhioLINK» CIC Provosts» Etc.

• Do it yourself

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Retaining Rights

www.arl.org/sparc/author/addendum.html

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SPARC Author’s Addendum

Author’s Retention of Rightsi. Right to reproduce… for non-

commercial purposes

ii. Right to prepare derivative works

iii. Right to authorize others

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SPARC Author’s Addendum

Publisher’s Additional Commitments

Provide author a no-charge PDF within

14 days of first publication

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SPARC Author’s Addendum

Publisher’s Acceptance

Sign and return, but if Article is published without Addendum signature, assent is assumed

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MIT Libraries

Publisher Response

• No way

• No need

• No problem

• And everything in between

• Notably, many publishers had no idea how their variable, constantly changing, and incomprehensible agreements led authors to disdain the whole process.

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Webcast for Librarians on Author Rights Outreach

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