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Copyright vs. Open Access
Barbara Hirschmann, ETH-Bibliothek
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Welcome to the
Coffee Lecture
No. 24

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What is Open Access?
«Open access […] literature is digital, online, free of
charge, and free of most copyright and licensing
restrictions.»
(Peter Suber, 2012)
accessible without costs for the reader
possibility to reuse

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Green OA Gold OA
Self-archiving in OA repositories Publishing in OA journals
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How to implement Open Access?

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Copyright Issues – Green OA
 Non-exclusive licence
 Exclusive licence
 Transfer copyright

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What does this mean?
 Publishing agreements are negotiable
 Use the SPARC author addendum
 Read the publication agreement with great care
 Transferring copyright doesn’t have to be all or nothing
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Copyright Issues – Green OA
“The ETH Zurich expects authors where possible,
to retain their copyright.” [ETH Zurich OA Policy]

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 Publishers usually allow some sort of self-archiving
 Where to look it up?
 Copyright Transfer Agreement
 Publisher/Journal Website
 SHERPA/RoMEO Database
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Copyright Issues – Green OA
“ETH Zurich requires of staff and postgraduate students to post electronic copies of
any research papers [ …] into the institutional repository ETH E-Collection, if there
are no legal objections.” [ETH Zurich OA Policy]

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Which version?
 Usually Postprint
(= author’s manuscript
after peer review)
When?
 Possible embargos
between 2 and 24
months
Where?
 Author’s website
 Institutional repository
 Disciplinary repository

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 Creative Commons Licenses
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Copyright Issues – Gold OA
CC BY:
Creative Commons Attribution License
CC BY NC:
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License

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Contact
www.library.ethz.ch/open-access