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RoMEO studies 6: rights metadata for open archiving

Elizabeth Gadd (Research Associate (e‐mail: e.a.gadd@lboro.ac.uk), in the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.)
Charles Oppenheim (Professor of Information Science and was the Director of the RoMEO Project (e‐mail: c.oppenheim@lboro.ac.uk) in the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.)
Steve Probets (Lecturer, and was the Technical Director of the RoMEO Project (e‐mail: s.g.probets@lboro. ac.uk), in the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.)

Program: electronic library and information systems

ISSN: 0033-0337

Article publication date: 1 March 2004

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Abstract

This is the final study in a series of six emanating from the UK JISC‐funded RoMEO Project (rights metadata for open‐archiving), which investigated the intellectual property rights issues relating to academic author self‐archiving of research papers. It reports the results of a survey of 542 academic authors, showing the level of protection required for their open access research papers. It then describes the selection of an appropriate means of expressing those rights through metadata and the resulting choice of Creative Commons licences. Finally, it outlines proposals for communicating rights metadata via the Open Archives Initiative’s Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI‐PMH).

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Gadd, E., Oppenheim, C. and Probets, S. (2004), "RoMEO studies 6: rights metadata for open archiving", Program: electronic library and information systems, Vol. 38 No. 1, pp. 5-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/00330330410699036

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