In an effort to create a more balanced understanding of the actual rights policies in place at most journals, and in the hope of tempering the often overheated rhetoric regarding the role of copyright in scholarly communication, three prestigious organizations representing the international scholarly publishing community today (8 May) issued a White Paper on the academic use of journal content.
For a copy of the position paper by the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing division (AAP/PSP), and the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), download Author and Publisher Rights for Academic Use: An Appropriate Balance, May 2007.