In the course of canvassing for papers to put into the SOC Eprint
Archive many scientists have asked what individual publishers'
agreements do allow and whether it is worth making a summary to let
people know about the policies of the various publishers?
For exmple: current AGU policies
http://www.agu.org/pubs/cprt_top.html
appear to explicitly allow authors to distribute papers or parts of
them through the institution or personal web sites. Interestingly, this
is still slightly different from the policy for g-cubed:
http://www.g-cubed.org/index.asp?ContentPage=about/copyright which
seems to be even more permissive from an author's perspective.
Has the eprint community done this as an exercise yet? I realise that
publishers' policies change but has anyone done a snapshot survey and
made it available? (I would offer, but just do not have the time to
identify the copyright pages of the major publishers and aggregate them
on a web page).
I am now ready to put up the SOC Trial eprint archive and certainly the
scientists want to see evidence of their submissions. Should I be waiting
for eprints2 ?
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