However, individual contracts with publishing partners (e.g., societies) and aggregators will likely require review by either counsel or a contracts office, as the terms may vary and there is more likely to be negotiation over those terms. Once standard agreements for authors and editors have been approved, there should be no need for further review unless changes are made. As with repository submission agreements, all legally binding standard contracts should be reviewed by institutional legal counsel. As noted in earlier chapters, there are several types of agreements that publishers must consider: author publishing contracts, agreements with publishing partners and editors, and agreements with aggregators/downstream distributors for journal content.
In Library Scholarly Communication Programs, 2013 Publishing workflowsĪs with institutional repositories, there are several primary publishing functions for which standard workflows should be created in order to provide appropriate oversight for legal and ethical issues: the creation and use of author agreements and other contracts the manuscript submission and review process the final prepublication process and the processes for addressing corrections, retractions, and author misconduct.Ĭontracts.
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