- Publishing agreements

ACM - Copyright Policy (version 4)

Clinical Medicine

Various

American Physical Society

Nature

Emerald

Sage

British Medical Journal

Listing from AAAS, ‘Seizing the Moment: Scientists’ Authorship Rights in the Digital Age’
Traditional Full Copyright Transfer Agreements:

1. American Geophysical Union

2. Academic Press

3. Elsevier Science

4. Springer-Verlag

5. Science

6. American Meteorological Society
follow links to FAQs, Publications

7. American Society of Clinical Laboratory Science

8. Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (Japan)

Transfer with Author Retaining Some Rights to the Work
9. American Physical Society

10. American Astronomical Society

11. Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers

12. Society for Computer Simulation International, not available online, but by request.

13. American Society of Civil Engineers

14. University of Chicago Press, The Astrophysical Journal, not available online, but by request.

Author Retains Copyright and Range of Non-Commercial Uses
15. Internet Journal of Chemistry

16. Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers

Author Retains Copyright and Unlimited Rights After First Publication in Journal
17. Journal of Machine Learning

Author or Publisher Retains Copyright but Licenses Work to the Public Domain
18. Public Library of Science

Further Examples

RoMEO Project: listing of academic journal copyright agreements

SHERPA/RoMEO
Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving. Summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement. Service maintained by SHERPA; development of the original publisher's listings produced by the RoMEO project.

The Academic Journal Policy Portal, University of Cincinatti

Creative Commons

Copyright Management Center, Indiana University, Indianapolis

Further Reading

R Stephen Berry, ‘Full and Open Access’ to Scientific Information: an academic’s view, Learned Publishing, Vol 13 No 1 (January 2000)

Mark S Frankel, ‘Seizing the Moment: Scientists’ Authorship Rights in the Digital Age’, American Academy for the Advancement of Science, 2002

P Bernt Hugenholtz, ‘Copyright vs Freedom of Scientific Communication’, Learned Publishing, Vol 13 No 2 (April 2000)

D G Law, R L Weedon & M R Sheen, ‘Universities and Article Copyright, Learned Publishing, Vol 13 No 3 (July 2000)

Malcolm Litchfield, ‘Presses must Stress Ideas, not Markets’, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 28 2002

Ann Monotti, ‘Power to modify the vesting of copyright in an employer’, European Intellectual Property Review, Vol 12, pp 725ff (1997)

Sally Morris, ‘Authors and Copyright’, Editorial, Learned Publishing, Vol 13 No 2 (April 2000)

Charles Oppenheim, ‘Copyright in HEIs: a discussion paper’, in M Tedd, ‘Papers on Copyright Issues in the Electronic Library’, JISC, 1995

Ralph Weedon, ‘Policy Approaches to Copyright in HEIs’, CES, University of Strathclyde, 2000.

Copyown: a resource on copyright for the higher education community

Issues in Scholarly Communication (ARL)