Common use of Science and Technology Clause in Contracts

Science and Technology. It was established in 2002 as an OAI-compliant, subject-based open access archive for the global Library and Information Science research and practice communities. At the same time, the need for a deeper understanding of the self-archiving policies of LIS journals was recognized (Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxx, 2003; Xxxxxxx et al., 2005). Literature Review Self-archiving, whereby an author deposits digital copies of his works in a publicly available website, preferably one compliant with the Open Archives Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI- PMH), is one of two key strategies for reaching the goals of the OA movement – the open availability of the research outputs of a discipline (BOAI, 2002; Eprints, 2005). The other strategy is open access publishing, through electronic journals openly available on the WWW. For Xxxxxx et al (2004), self- archiving and publishing in open access journals are the green and gold roads to achieving open access of the refereed, research literature. There are many studies about open access and both components, open access publishing, through open access journals, and open access archiving or self-archiving, the practice by which authors deposit digital copies of their works for public web access, and the major stakeholders involved, authors and publishers, have been studied. Xxxxxx'x Open Access Bibliography (2005) provides a list of research studies and Xxxxx'x Open Access News weblog (2006) is an excellent current awareness tool for OA research, irrespective of their publication venue, closed or open. For academic journal publishing, the Zwolle Group (SURF, 2005) has recommended minimal items for agreement and some of these are presented in a modified form below: