[governance] CFC: Business Organizations and Collaborative

[Jeanette Hofmann]

Hi Deidre, buy-out contracts are the norm in academic publishing. It is 
really ironic that those who call for stronger legislation against 
so-called theft or piracy don't respect those laws in the first place. 
Yet, things are changing. The public access movement has been able to 
negotiate new contracts with publishers. Many of the major academic 
publishers are now willing to grant you the right of publishing a copy 
of your work on your website or in a public repository. You just need to 
ask for it.
Below is the reply I got from Cambridge University Press last week. It 
concerns an article for an edited volume:

We "feel that we are in the best position to exploit the book, in print 
and electronically and would prefer it that way.  However,   if you feel 
you would rather put your text on your own website then we do have a 
clause that needs to be added/changed in the contract and I will 
re-issue if needed."

If people keep asking, the standard contracts will change!
jeanette



Deirdre Williams wrote:
> Dear Friends,
> 
> Several years ago I saw a call for papers like this one, and from the
> same publisher. The topic was connected with networking and diversity
> and very much in line with my own interests. I submitted a proposal
> for a chapter which was accepted. I spent the next three or four
> months stealing time which didn’t really exist so that I could
> complete the project inside the deadline. Almost as an afterthought,
> on the Sunday before the final Wednesday deadline, the editor
> circulated the contract for signature. The contract required me to
> sign over to the publisher, absolutely, every vestige of my copyright
> in the material, whether it was eventually published or not. In return
> would come “enhancement to my reputation” from my work being included
> in the publication.
> 
> I withdrew the work immediately. I had already broken the terms of the
> contract since I had already shared the document for comments with
> other people in the field.
> 
> I contacted the other chapter authors but no one seemed to share my
> outrage at these conditions. One man was in fact quite rude to me :-)
> I understand that contracts like the one I was sent are customary – a
> rule rather than an exception. I also understand the imperatives of
> “publish or perish”. However I expect there are still people who
> subscribe to an ethic of sharing and open content. To those I would
> like to suggest that they avoid the trap I fell into and ask to see
> the contract BEFORE they embark on the project.
> 
> Let me be absolutely clear – this is not about money, but about
> rights, and specifically about the right to share.
> 
> Deirdre
> 
> 
> 2009/12/16 Kamna Malik <kamna.malik at gmail.com>:
>> Chapter proposals are invited for the upcoming book -
>>
>>
>>
>> Business Organizations and Collaborative Web: Practices, Strategies and
>> Patterns
>>
>>
>>
>> To be edited by Kamna Malik and Praveen Choudhary
>>
>>  To be published by IGI Global Publishing.
>>
>>
>>
>> Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
>> - Journey of the Web: History and stages of growth of the web, emerging Web
>> tools and their applications
>> - Individual aspects: Knowledge entrepreneurs, competitive landscape of
>> individuals
>> - Business aspects: Global supply chains, co-creation of knowledge, products
>> and services, changing forms of organization structure and dynamics, extent
>> of technology friendliness, control versus trust, competitive landscape of
>> business – practices, strategies and patterns
>> - Social aspects: Emergence of the virtual world, development of
>> communities, freedom of voice, competitive landscape for nations
>> - Information System aspects: IS organization structure, future forms of
>> information infrastructure, information security, integrity and assurance,
>> competitive landscape of information systems function
>> - Ethical and Legal aspects: IP ownership, ethical blogging, information
>> policies and practices
>>
>>
>>
>> Proposal Submission by: January 5, 2010
>>
>> Proposal Decision by:  January 20, 2010
>>
>> Full Chapter Submission by:  March 5, 2010
>>
>>
>>
>> Complete call for chapters is available at
>>
>> http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=728
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> For submissions and queries, please write to kamna.malik at u21global.edu.sg
>>
>>
>>
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