26 February 2010

The majority of publishers support the right of academic authors to mount their own work online. Publisher policies on copyright are therefore in general not an obstacle to complying with the EC Open Access Pilot requirements. In some cases, explicit permission is not given or even excluded in the standard copyright agreement. In those cases, the Open Access Pilot guidelines require to author to contact the publisher and negotiate an arrangement.

To find out what permissions are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement, authors can consult the globally used RoMEO database, maintained by SHERPA. This database details the rights given to authors by the major publishers of academic journals.

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