Prof Bernard Martin (Dean: Law Faculty) will give a lunchtime talk exploring what’s at stake when you sign a publisher’s contract.

Acceptance of papers by research journals is cause for celebration.  What happens next is critical for the future dissemination of your paper.

FACTS:

• Signing a publisher’s contract invariably means your copyright is transferred (usually off shore)
  In this way, monopoly over your work is handed to publishers
• 55% of scholarly publishing market resides in hands of 5 mega-publishers who enjoy profits of 40%
• No university can afford all the journals needed by researchers
  Most research is supported by public funding
• Faculty supply journals with papers and also service them by performing peer review
  UWC has an open access policy

FIND OUT

• How Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, Springer and Wiley responded to UWC’s Legal Addendum to Publisher Contracts
• How to extend the visibility and standing of UWC through the UWC Research Repository

INTERNATIONAL OPEN ACCESS WEEK: 
Wednesday 21 October at 1pm (light refreshments from 12:45)
Chemistry Building, Room 3.8.2