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Another practice which may be questioned in the future is the
existing one of depositing the final version of the author's manuscript
accepted for publication in a scientific journal. With the emergence of
the data deluge, the emphasis will be not only on the publication, but
also on the underlying resources. Stakeholders should make
arrangements for data storage, data mining and text mining, not only
in publishing agreements but also in the licence agreements for
electronic scientific journals.
One last question might be raised. Despite the growth of Open
Content and OA, journals are still the mainstay of scholarly
communication, but speed of publication is often mentioned as being
the big advantage of repositories. Peers are informed about the latest
state of the art mainly via the deposit of a pre-print in the repository. In
addition to scholarly output deposited in a repository, articles are
available through institutions' journal subscriptions. Universities put a
lot of organizational and financial effort into making available the same
journal articles that are already available through journal subscriptions.
Such availability of the content could be an argument for evaluating
decisions about which scholarly output is deposited in a repository.
Would it not make more sense to consider, together with the publishers'
community, whether it might be possible to deposit other material in
the repository, and to define new arrangements in such a manner that
scholarly output partly owned by the publishers will become more
broadly available for a larger audience?
Notes
1
Dame Lynne Brindley, response to the Gowers Review.
2
www.teleread.org/2009/09/01/10-most-pirated-ebooks-not-what-you-think/.
3
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090801080757AAMcIFt.
4
UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, Section 11 (1), Chapter 48.
5
Copyright Law of the United States and Related Rights Contained in Title 17
of the United States Code: Originality, fixation in a tangle medium, ยง 201.
6
Community for Creative Non-Violence vs Reid, 490 U.S. 730 (1989); see
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=search&court=
US&case=/us/490/730.html [accessed October 2009].
7
Hays v. Sony Corp. of America, 847 F.2d 412 (7th Cir. 1988).
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