Abstracts
Copyright Challenges for Digital Repositories
Monday 4 May 2009, 1430 – 1500
Presenter: Luke Padgett,
Swinburne University of Technology, VIC
Presenter Biography
Luke has been employed in a number of academic libraries including Murdoch University Library and Curtin University Library. He is currently the Copyright Advisor for Swinburne University, the University of Ballarat and the Copyright Officer for CAUL’s Australian Institutional Repository Support Service.
Abstract
In Australia there has been an increasing emphasis on providing open access to research outputs where there has been public funding of the research. A major issue in providing open access to research is the development of complex relationships between public bodies, educational institutions, publishers and authors. These relationships can present significant barriers in the practical process of deposit. To overcome these barriers we need to understand: the impact of national and institutional open access policies; the nature of stakeholder interests and research culture; and the legal framework authors and repository staff must navigate to provide open access to the research.
This paper briefly explains motivations for providing a policy of open access to research through an institutional repository and what form such policies have taken. There have been mixed successes in implementing open access repositories in Australian institutions and this paper explores some of the common elements in successful repository workflows. It is submitted that deposit policy must be adaptable to changing government and publishing trends. Using an elective or mandatory deposit policy will impact on copyright obligations, institutional responsibility and the success of deposit rates.
Deposit policy will also define the legal relationships between the institution and publication stakeholders. It is vital to consider all stakeholders when creating repository workflows involving copyright and this requires examining research publication cultures within the individual institution. In particular this paper considers the differing implications between providing and hosting copyright content through an open access repository.
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