Information on copyright
On Behalf Of Tamara Swaab
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 11:10 AM
To: all-faculty-psych; all-grads-psych; all-staff-psych
Subject: important information on copy-right
1) Authors copy- rights
for general information on copy rights please access this WEB-site
http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/about/schcomm/
One issue that is addressed here is for example the use of pdf's of articales on myUCDavis. At this point there is no law that makes this illegal, If you only make the articles accessible to the enrolled students and only for the quarter. But this may change!
The library strongly encourages us to not sign away all our author copy rights, but engage in a "conversation" with the publishers. The underlying reason for this is that the library is looking for different ways in which scientific publications can be made available to the larger public, and avoid the staggering costs of on-line journals. At this point they can still serve our needs, but they warn us that this may not always be the case under current budgetary restrictions. Also, it could serve some of our needs much better:
e.g., archiving on your own WEB page which is currently NOT legal if you have not retained the copy rights; or making available for students a package of your own work (currently not legal either...)
However, they do realize that we do need to publish our work, they just want us to know that signing away all your rights is not always necessary. A WEB site to learn more about this debate
http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/ir_guide.html
2) New Features on the general library WEB-site:
In for example PSYCHinfo there is a feature next to subject area "specific databases" that will allow you to browse a combination of databases (also full text) that may not all be included in psychinfo.
When you have found an article and have gone to UC-elinks there is a new feature that will allow you to " copy and paste a citation and full link into your document ". It will give you the citation in APA format (or a choice of some others), and it will give you a link that can be used to access the pdf (for UC people, or for people elsewhere who have access to this publisher through their university). The library representatives told us that this feature should be used instead of e-mailing people pdf's of articles which is not allowed, unless for your own papers but only if you have retained copy-rights (see below)
3) New Data-base that may be useful to some of us
Business Source Premier, apparently has Psychology articles also
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