[Coral-List] COPYRIGHT POLICIES AND AUTHOR RIGHTS

[Jim Hendee]

Following is a message from Dr. Richard Dunne, which unfortunately we 
couldn't seem to get through the list via his email address. 

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Subject: 	JOURNAL COPYRIGHT POLICIES AND AUTHOR RIGHTS
Date: 	Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:31:36 +0000
From: 	Richard Dunne <RichardPDunne at aol.com>
To: 	Jim Hendee <Jim.Hendee at noaa.gov>


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Dear Coral Listers

JOURNAL COPYRIGHT POLICIES AND AUTHOR RIGHTS

There is a very useful website which gives quick access to journal 
copyright policies and what an author may do with his/her published 
article. It is called SHERPA (www.sherpa.ac.uk). In particular, SHERPA 
is investigating issues in the future of scholarly communication and is 
developing Open Access institutional repositories in universities to 
facilitate the rapid and efficient worldwide dissemination of research. 
The website has many useful links, including to OpenDOAR - a worldwide 
directory of open access repositories.

Journals are ranked according to the rights that they permit, with Green 
being the highest category. As an example, the journal:

CORAL REEFS (the journal of the International Society of Reef Studies - 
published by Springer) is ranked green and allows the following:
Author can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing).
Author can archive post-print (ie draft post-refereeing).

Conditions
Authors own final version only can be archived (not the published PDF).
On authors website or institutional repository, or funders designated 
website/repository: the published source must be acknowledged and must 
link to publisher version
(the original publication is available at www.springerlink.com).
Articles can be made Open Access on payment of additional charge.

This makes the journal compliant with a number of leading Research 
Councils, amongst them: the Wellcome Trust, the Australian Research 
Council, the National Institute of Health (USA), Natural Environment 
Research Council (UK), BBRSC (UK).

In addition to authors being entitled to purchase Open Access rights in 
their own article, the journal makes one article per issue Open Access 
free of charge. There is also an annual Best Paper award which gives 
open access and now carries a prize of Euros 1,000 (approximately 
USdollars 1,400) to the lead author.


Richard Dunne
Assistant to the Editor in Chief
Coral Reefs
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