Copyright provisions in law journal publication agreements

Law Library Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 269-283

  Keele, Benjamin J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (36)

1. See Stephanie L. Plotin, Legal Scholarship, Electronic Publishing, and Open Access: Transformation or Steadfast Stagnation?, 101 Law Libr. J. 31,40,2009 Law Libr. J. 2,¶128.
2. See Richard A. Danner, Applying the Access Principle in Law: The Responsibilities of the Legal Scholar, 35 Int'l J. Legal Info. 355,379-380 (2007).
3. Michael W. Carroll, The Movement for Open Access Law, 10 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 741, 749 (2006).
4. See Plotin, supra note 1, at 34,18.
5. See Carroll, supra note 3, at 742-743 (presenting hypothetical scenario in which free access to legal scholarship is valuable).
6. See Plotin, supra note 1, at 40-45,11 28-41, for a thorough discussion of the many factors advancing and resisting open access.
7. Dan Hunter, Walled Gardens, 62 Wash. 8c Lee L. Rev. 607,608 (2005).
8. See Lawrence B. Solum, Download It While It's Hot: Open Access and Legal Scholarship, 10 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 841,848-849 (2006).
9. Model Author/Journal Agreement, attachment to Memorandum from Bari Burke, Ass'n of Am. Law Sch., to Deans of Member 8c Fee-Paid Sch. (May 18,1998), available at http://www.aals.org/deansmemos/98-24.html.
10. Marci A. Hamilton, Why a Model Author/Journal Agreement?, attachment to Memorandum from Bari Burke, supra note 9.
11. Sci. Commons, Open Access Law: Publication Agreement, http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/oalaw/oalawpublication (last visited Jan. 21,2010).
12. Creative Commons, License Your Work, http://creativecommons.org/choose (last visited Jan. 21,2010).
13. See Sci. Commons, Open Access Law: Principles, http://sciencecommons.org/ projects/publishing/oalaw/principles (last visited Jan. 21,2010).
14. See Scholarly Publ'g 8c Academic Res. Coal., Addendum to Publication Agreement, http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/Access-Reuse-Addendum-HTML.shtrml (last visited Jan. 21,2010).
15. Carol A. Parker, Institutional Repositories and the Principle of Open Access: Changing the Way We Think About Legal Scholarship, 37 N.M. L. Rev. 431,471 (2007).
16. Danner, supra note 2, at 384.
17. Id.
18. Parker, supra note 15, at 471.
19. Hunter, supra note 7, at 629.
20. See id. at 630-631.
21. Id. at 631.
22. See Plotin, supra note 1, at 50,150.
23. Id. at 45,¶1 42. Plotin's study included Harvard Law Review, Columbia Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Texas Law Review, Yale Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, California Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Michigan Law Review, Journal of Legal Studies, Minnesota Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, New York University Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Harvard Environmental Law Review, and Law and Human Behavior. Id. at 45 n.l 15. My sample contains agreements from twelve of these journals. Only Law and Human Behavior was not in the set of journals I contacted.
24. Anita Coleman, Self-Archiving and the Copyright Transfer Agreements of ISI-Ranked Library and Information Science Journals, 58 J. Am. Soc'y for Info. Sci. 8c Tech. 286 (2007).
25. Washington & Lee Univ. Sch. of Law, Law Journals: Submissions and Ranking, http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ (last visited Jan. 21, 2010)
26. The rankings are based on citation counts. The methodology is explained at Washington & Lee Univ. Sch. of Law, Law Journals: Submissions and Ranking Introduction, http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ/methord.asp (last visited Jan. 21,2010).
27. My original study was of the top 100 journals; the number was increased to 200 and a second round of requests was sent to all journals in order to obtain more responses.
28. See Elizabeth Gadd, Charles Oppenheim, & Steve Probets, RoMEO Studies 4: An Analysis of Journal Publishers' Copyright Agreements, 16 Learned Publ'g 293,295 (2003).
29. Univ. of Chicago Press, Guidelines for Journal Authors' Rights, http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/page/rights.html (last visited Jan. 21,2010) ("To avoid citation confusion, we discourage online posting of pre-prints and working papers. If you choose to submit a pre-publication version of your accepted paper to a non-commercial, discipline-specific pre-print or working paper archive, however, we require that appropriate credit be given to the journal as described above and ask you to remove the working paper from the archive after your article is published or replace it with the published version").
30. Sci. Commons, supra note 13.
31. See, e.g., CopyrightExperiences, http://commons.umlaw.net/index.php? title=Main-Page (last visited Jan. 21,2010)
32. SHERPA/RoMEO, Publisher Copyright Policies & Self-Archiving, http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo (last visited Jan. 21,2010). The Washington and Lee journals site contains some, although not complete, information on journal copyright policies.
33. Lee Univ. Sch. of Law, Law Journals: Submissions and Ranking, supra note 25.
34. For proposals to make law journals more friendly to open access, see Danner, supra note 2, at 394-395.
35. Hunter, supra note 7, at 638-639.
36. Parker, supra note 15, at 471-472.