Publishing preprints on-line

I did some browsing following Seb’s post about twelfth declaration of independence from a costly publisher. Between other things I found an answer to my earlier question about publishing preprints on-line:

EPrints.org – Self-Archiving FAQ: The author holds the copyright for the pre-refereeing preprint, so that can be self-archived without seeking anyone else’s permission. For the refereed postprint, the author can try to modify the copyright transfer agreement to allow self-archiving, or, failing that, can append or link a corrigenda file to the already self-archived preprint.

There is more to read there, so I know where to start to work on my “academic publishing awareness” :)

See also:

• What you can do to help the cause of open access
• Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• Open Access News weblog

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/02/02.html#a1069; comments are here.

• OKLC04: PhD workshop notes
• Ideal intellectual communities
• Publishing preprints on-line: please explain the rules

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