SAN FRANCISCO — The UCSF Academic Senate has voted to make electronic versions of their current and future scientific articles freely available to the public, helping to reverse decades of practice on the part of medical and scientific journal publishers to restrict access to research results.
(from the UC Newsroom site)
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So, how does access to scientific articles by UCSF researchers relate to copyright issues in ANR?
Well, many of you have commented that work that you or your UC colleagues have done has shown up in other places, sometimes with an accurate citation and sometimes not.
Others of you have commented that exercising copyright for our work goes counter to our mission and that everything should be in the public domain.
Over the past year, my thinking on these issues has changed.
I'm beginning to think that the best way to protect copyright and identify your work in the future may be open access publishing. Counterintuitively, the key to protecting your work may be discoverablility. In this case, discovery means consistent branded content that is easily and consistently found and indexed by search engines.
Some of our information will be duplicated and used without permission. Maintaining ownership and copyright may become more about where online search can take you and building official scholarly and program material repositiories.
Bob
University of California
News & Information Outreach
UCSF senate votes for open access
Policy provides open access to research papers
Date: 2012-05-23