Haworth Press Requires Copyright Transfer Prior to Peer Review
Haworth Press now has a policy of requiring a copyright transfer prior to peer review.
For example, the "Instructions to Authors" for the Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve states: "Copyright ownership of your manuscript must be transferred officially to The Haworth Press, Inc., before we can begin the peer-review process."
This raises the interesting question of what happens when a paper is rejected: Haworth now owns the copyright, so how can the author now submit the rejected paper elsewhere?
Postscript: Haworth has posted a liblicense-l message indicating that it is clarifying its copyright transfer requirements.
