[cap-talk] arXiv

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 13:41 +0100, Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> To ensure their wide, uninterrupted and perpetual availability, may I
> suggest their authors put them on arXiv[1]?
> 
>   1. http://arxiv.org/

Just a side comment. A lot of the papers are already available on
citeseer.

> Clearly any defended thesis and peer-reviewed paper can be submitted.

Be careful, because this is not true. Historically, MOST publishers in
computer science have required that copyright be assigned to them. If
you published a paper in an ACM or IEEE journal, *they* own it. If you
published in a conference, it is likely that the paper eventually was
published in an ACM or IEEE (or perhaps Elsevier) special issue, and
that they own it.

In recent years, both ACM and IEEE have adopted more liberal policies
about copyright, and they are generally willing to grant permissions for
non-commercial use. It cannot hurt to ask them for permission.

But don't simply assume that your published works are yours.

Aside: this is why many of the documents on citeseer are the in-house
technical note versions of papers that were published before the
official one (and which are therefore owned by the authors).


shap