Committee Charges Identify and implement local actions in response to the scholarly communications issues raised by the committee. Consider actions that will leverage the stature of UNC-CH and of the combined Triangle Universities to make an impact nationally and internationally on the commercial scholarly publications market. Take steps to continue educating UNC-CH faculty members about these issues and to assist them in making informed decisions.

Actions We Can Take Build IR repository (sister committee) Participate in research in scholarly communications issues (interested researchers) Assess options for faculty for open publishing (copyright, licensing) Educate faculty about options Be a leader and participate internationally in all of the above efforts.

Related Work from NeoRef Lab Current assessment of copyright policies of publishers (updating Romeo efforts).Romeo Produce list of publishing options –Publishing choices available for particular disciplines –Information about what conditions/modifications publishers will accept. Beginning discussions with other universities about adopting “common” guidelines for university publishing.

Possible Guidelines Acceptable copyright or licensing agreement terms that university authors can/should agree to. Publish only in open access journals. Require submission to open access repositories after short time (6-12 months). Require deposit of all publications in IR. Support by institution for fees associated with publishing in open access format. Recommended “journals to publish in” list.list

Author’s Rights Analysis of Copyright Transfer Agreements

Project Questions What rights do publishers leave with authors of articles? To what extent are publishers willing to negotiate more rights for authors? How does this apply to UNC?

Data List of 5447 academic journals that have published articles by people at UNC generated from ISI Citation Database Lists from the Davis Serials Department of academic journals subscribed to by UNC

Criteria Can the author archive the article on a personal website? A departmental site? An institutional repository? A public database? Is this the preprint or the postprint? Does the author transfer the copyright, or merely license the publisher to print? Can the author reuse all or portions of the article? Can the author use the article for teaching purposes? Does the publisher explicitly leave other rights(patent, etc) with the author? When does the author need to get written permission for these rights?

Breakdown of results of analysis of top 196 journals by number of UNC connected articles 140(71%) covered by Romeo study 11(5.6%) had no copyright information on websites 45(23%) had copyright transfer information on publisher website

Is the copyright agreement specific to the journal? 12 Non-journal specific Copyright agreement 18 Journal specific for single academic journal publisher 11 Journal specific for multiple academic journal publisher

Breakdown of Criteria

Permitted use

Basic Copyright Transfer American Society for Investigative Pathology

More Detailed Copyright Transfer Whereas the American Statistical Association (ASA) desires to publish the manuscript named above in the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the undersigned, as the owner of the copyright in this work, hereby grants and assigns exclusively to ASA all rights, title, and interest in and to the above manuscript now or hereafter protected by the copyright laws of the United States and all foreign countries, including, but not limited to, the right to prepare derivative works and the right to publish, reproduce, lease, copy, and distribute the manuscript (either as printed matter or in any electronic format), and to sell the manuscript, extracts, or excerpts in its own name without limitation as to territory. In return for this assignment of copyright, ASA grants to the undersigned the right to reproduce the manuscript separately and in any book of which the undersigned is author or editor, subject only to giving written acknowledgment on the manuscript and in the book of the original publication of the manuscript by ASA. ASA also grants to the undersigned the right to place the final version of this manuscript on his/her own homepage or in a public digital repository, provided there is a link to the official journal site. American Statistical Association

Next Steps Integrate data from Romeo study Compare what journals publish UNC work to what UNC subscribes to. Expand analysis of publishers