Scholarly Publication and Copyright in Networked Electronic Publishing

THE PuBLicATioN OF SCHOLARLY WORKS in a networked electronic environ-ment presents many opportunities for solving some of the problems that currently exist in the print world. At the same time, copyright law, a form of legal protection developed primarily for printed works, has been used to create stumbling blocks both for faculty authors and their institutions. This has occurred because publishers have required a transfer of copyright to the publisher as a quid pro quo for getting the work published. New models of copyright ownership and man-agement can be developed for electronic publishing of scholarly works and research results that will provide greater control to the faculty author, ease the distribution and permissions process for the use of copyrighted works in teaching and research, and ultimately will re-duce costs to universities which currently must repurchase faculty-pro-duced works from commercial publishers