Partnership on Copyright - Knowledge bank & advocacy

Partnership on copyright - Knowledge bank & advocacy

Funded by JISC & SURF

Project investigators: Professor Charles Oppenheim, Dr. Steve Probets,

Duration: April 2005 – Feb 2006

Description: This JISC/SURF funded project built on the RoMEO project and enhanced the functionality of the SHERPA/RoMEO database of publishers’ Copyright Transfer Agreements (CTAs) to enable it to be searchable on Journal titles. It also developed a controlled vocabulary for analysing CTAs.

A second aim of the project was to develop a copyright toolkit which could be used to educate authors, academics and administrators in the importance of carefully managing copyright during the scholarly publication process.

Publications:
Jenkins, C., Probets, S.G., Oppenheim, C. and Hubbard, B., ''ROMEO Studies 8: Self-Archiving: The Logic Behind the Colour Coding Used in the Copyright Knowledge Bank'', Program, 41(2), 2007, pp 124-133.

Contact: Charles Oppenheim and Steve Probets
Email: c.oppenheim@lboro.ac.uk s.g.probets@lboro.ac.uk