Timeline for Why many research results are presented as paid articles?
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| Jan 17, 2014 at 16:21 | comment | added | cnst | For my second IEEE paper, I actually did place it into the public domain, and did alter the form to select one of those options that no copyright needs to be transferred, crossing out the explanation of when it's the case (i.e. crossing out mentions of which entity has produced it), and writing a declaration that work is hereby placed into public domain. I've never heard back from anyone, and the small "public domain" caption also appears within the paper itself just fine, too. See my old (2007) thread on mathcopyrights@crypto: article.gmane.org/gmane.science.mathematics.copyright/9 | |
| Jan 17, 2014 at 15:59 | comment | added | cnst | @FedericoPoloni, obviously, if you don't turn in a required form, that will not satisfy them at all. However, those forms have many options, to account for works that are already in the public domain (or crown copyright), and you can always select one of such options which IEEE didn't really intend you to, or cross out stuff you don't like, and write "public domain" in place, since it's all a paper form. There is no good reason why they'd deny such forms, especially as long as you make it crystal clear on the form that there's no copyright to transfer, so, it's of no real worries to IEEE. | |
| Jan 17, 2014 at 8:11 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | I don't know when those pages that you link at cr.yp.to were written, but in the last few years the publishers have become more attentive to copyright matters and refuse more often to make exceptions to their copyright transfer forms. You may want to take that information wit a grain of salt (as in: things may be bleaker today if you wish to publish your articles in public domain). | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 22:59 | history | answered | cnst | CC BY-SA 3.0 |