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Conflicting academic attitudes to copyright are slowing the move to open access

Dodds, Francis (2018) Conflicting academic attitudes to copyright are slowing the move to open access. Impact of Social Sciences Blog (10 May 2018). Website.

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Abstract

Where previously authors would typically assign rights in a scholarly work to an academic publisher, the open access movement has prompted a shift towards retention of rights and the use of creative commons licenses to control how works are used by publishers. This shift has the support of research funders, whose policies seek to ensure the widest possible readership. Francis Dodds suggests that whilst publishers have adapted with some success to a new OA environment and its contractual framework, researchers have proved more ambivalent to the changes. The fact that researchers are divided in their views about OA, and the merits of permitting varying degrees of reuse of their work, has contributed to limiting the spread of OA publication, which remains only a modest percentage of the overall market.

Item Type: Online resource (Website)
Official URL: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences
Additional Information: © 2018 The Author(s)
Divisions: LSE
Subjects: L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Z665 Library Science. Information Science
Date Deposited: 15 Aug 2018 14:00
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 17:51
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/89908

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