Academic community about copyright related with open access. Case study at Transilvania University

• Author: Bârsan, M. I. - Repanovici, A.
• Position: Dept. of Law, Transilvania University of Brasov - Dept. of Product Design, Mechatronics and Environment, Transilvania University of Brasov
• Pages: 87-94

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov • Vol. 5 (54) •No. 2 - 2012

Series V: Economic Sciences

ACADEMIC COMMUNITY ABOUT

COPYRIGHT RELATED WITH

OPEN ACCESS. CASE STUDY AT

TRANSILVANIA UNIVERSITY

M. I. BÂRSAN1 A. REPANOVICI2

Abstract: The movement for open access to scientific information aims to

transform education and research through the provision, free of charge, of

the literature in scientific journals, to all researchers, regardless of the

country they carry out their activity in or the institution they are affiliated to,

while observing the natural award and quotation rules. In order to have

his/her article published in a quality scientific journal, the author is almost

always requested to transfer the copyrights to the respective journal's editor.

The editor thus becomes the only one authorized to decide if and in what way

the text is to be published after the initial issue - e.g., through its inclusion in

a scientific database. The paper It considers the claims for copyright

ownership in research papers by universities, academics, and publishers by

drawing on the literature, a survey of academic authors from Transilvania

University. There were analysed concerning the professors' opinion on the

AUTHOR – UNIVERSITY – EDITOR relationship. The sample was

considerate with academic staff from Law. Engineering, Literature and

Economic Science Faculties.

Key words: Universities, Publishing, Academic staff, Copyright,

Ownership, Document management, Open Access.

1 Dept. of Law, Transilvania University of Braşov.

2 Dept. of Product Design, Mechatronics and Environment, Transilvania University of Braşov.

1. Introduction: Open access to

information

The information boost has completely

changed the classical scientific data

posting, access, dissemination and use

procedure. Due to the Internet, which is a

public data communication and

transmission domain, the scientific

publications migrated from the traditional

form to the digital one. Scientific

communication developed extensively in

that direction. All conferences schedules,

all research agreements' results are now

available online. Researchers have

adapted, they use these new technologies

in the data research, communication and

transmission process. (Repanovici, 2010)

Open access is the electronic version of

the printed scientific publication that can

be read online, distributed without any

commercial purposes, free of charge and

limitations.

Rights Metadata for Open archiving -

RoMEO is considered one of the most