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I am confused by this. In CS, at least, on publication the ACM generally receives the copyright to the paper, so I don't understand how any faculty or students
by mkehrt 11y ago
I am confused by this. In CS, at least, on publication the ACM generally receives the copyright to the paper, so I don't understand how any faculty or students could actually change the terms of the license.
- dalke 11y agoIt looks like this extends the right for the author to decide on an open access publication from those who are "part of a faculty governance system" to "everyone who authors scholarly articles while employed by UC", including 'eScholarship', which is their own "Open-Access scholarly publishing services".
- ninguem2 11y agoDon't you post your papers on the arxiv? That's basically the same thing. You put the paper in the UC eScholarship repository in addition to publishing it as you normally would. If the publisher complains, then there will be a problem. But they are already dealing with the arxiv without issues.
- mkehrt 11y agoNot in CS, but there is a strong tradition of hosting copies on personal websites. The ACM is generally pretty lax on that, but technically they own the copyright.
- ajdlinux 11y agoAccording to the ACM copyright policy at http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy#Retained http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy#Re..., the transfer agreement states that the author retains the right to publish on their home page and on an institutional repository.
- tzs 11y agoThere is also similar language in the licensing agreement used when authors choose to exclusively license to ACM rather than transfer copyright to ACM [1]. Under both agreements the author also has the right to publish, before peer review commences, a copy of the submitted version to non-peer servers, which would cover things like arXiv.org. [1] http://www.acm.org/publications/ACM-PubLicenseAgreement.pdf http://www.acm.org/publications/ACM-PubLicenseAgreement.pdf
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- ninguem2 11y agoThere seems to be a lot of CS papers on arxiv: http://arxiv.org/corr/home http://arxiv.org/corr/home