Comments on: For Faculty Authors http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm Duke's source for advice and information about copyright and publication issues Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:32:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Will Wilson, Biology http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/for-faculty-authors/comment-page-1/#comment-227471 Will Wilson, Biology Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:09:02 +0000 http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/for-faculty-authors/#comment-227471 What about copyediting? I'm nearing the final stages with my book, and I know that it would benefit greatly from a better editor than I. University publishers take care of that service, but I see no mention of that issue. That service costs money; do authors giving away their work bear the cost? Duke refuses to pay for it, and I suspect the situation is the same at other universities. What about copyediting? I’m nearing the final stages with my book, and I know that it would benefit greatly from a better editor than I. University publishers take care of that service, but I see no mention of that issue. That service costs money; do authors giving away their work bear the cost? Duke refuses to pay for it, and I suspect the situation is the same at other universities.

]]> By: Kathleen Wallace http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/for-faculty-authors/comment-page-1/#comment-97861 Kathleen Wallace Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:42:29 +0000 http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/for-faculty-authors/#comment-97861 AUTHORS RIGHTS Academic authors need to stop signing restrictive publishing agreements. Under the law these agreements allow publishers to collect licensing and copyright fees many times over, while most of the time little or none of what is collected ever makes its way to authors. Moreover, universities, which pay the salaries of most academic authors and therefore have supported the creation of the work in the first place, end up paying many times over for use of work, even work that the university may own, because of the fees charged for digital "copies" of such works. See my article "Marketing Ideas: Reshaping Academic Publishing in a Digital World" at www.scienceprogress.org/2008/04/marketing-ideas/ AUTHORS RIGHTS

Academic authors need to stop signing restrictive publishing agreements. Under the law these agreements allow publishers to collect licensing and copyright fees many times over, while most of the time little or none of what is collected ever makes its way to authors. Moreover, universities, which pay the salaries of most academic authors and therefore have supported the creation of the work in the first place, end up paying many times over for use of work, even work that the university may own, because of the fees charged for digital “copies” of such works. See my article “Marketing Ideas: Reshaping Academic Publishing in a Digital World” at http://www.scienceprogress.org/2008/04/marketing-ideas/

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