APA Internet Publication Policy

[Marie Monteagudo]

Here is information about APA's new Internet Publication Policy about
posting papers on the Internet prior to publication...which relates to
copyright...
>>CRTNET News April 29, 1997  Number 1924
>>Communication Research and Theory Network
>>a service of the National Communication Association
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>>CONTENTS:
>>APA Policy  (Ray McKerrow)
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>>Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 21:12:52 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: Ray McKerrow <MCKERROW at ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu>
>>
>>APA Policy
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>>Posting Information on the Internet
>>
>>So you want to put your article on the Internet_on your own home page
>>or that of  your university. What's the problem? There can be a few,
>>especially if  you want  to later publish the article or if it has
>>already been published.
>>
>>At their Spring 1996 meetings, the APA journal editors and the
>>Publications and  Communications (P&C) Board took a long look at the
>>implications of the  Internet  for publishing.
>>
>>     Notices in such journals as Neuroscience and the New England
>>Journal of  Medicine alert authors that papers posted on the Internet
>>are  considered already  "published" and will not be considered for
>>print publication. Papers posted on the Internet may be considered in
>>the "public  domain" and  downloaded, incorporated into someone else's
>>work and copyrighted by  them (i.e.,  authors can "lose" their own
>>copyrights and their own right to print  publication).  Posting a
>>published paper on the Internet may violate the copyright transfer
>>agreement related to the print publication.
>>
>>Many of the legal issues surrounding the Internet, online services,
>>service  providers, and copyright and privacy in the electronic world
>>are  murky,  confused, in the courts or soon to be there, and, of
>>course, rapidly  changing.
>>
>>The APA P&C Board has, therefore, adopted an "interim" policy:
>>
>>     Authors are instructed not to put their manuscripts on the
>>Internet at any  stage (draft, submitted for publication, in press, or
>>published).  Authors should  be aware that they run a risk of having
>>(a) their papers stolen,  altered, or  distributed without their
>>permission and, very importantly, (b) an  editor regard  such papers
>>as previously  "published" and not eligible as a  submission_a
>>position taken by most APA journal editors. In addition, after
>>acceptance for  publication, the publisher is the copyright holder.
>>APA does not  permit authors  to post the full text of their APA-
>>published papers on the Internet at  this  time, as developments in
>>the online world cannot be predicted. The APA  will, however, closely
>>follow such Internet developments. The P&C Board will establish  a
>>task force in June 1997 to investigate developments and recommend a
>>longer term APA policy.
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>>Managing Editor:  Bill Eadie, NCA
>>Assistant Editor: Michelle Randall, NCA