Ask LJ for the "other" author agreement

If you've worked in academic libraries, you've surely heard the rant against the behemoth company that is Elsevier.  Even if you haven't, you may have heard the wind stirring about price gouging, rights-clutching, and draconian licensing.  Dorothea Salo wrote an article for Library Journal, not realizing that their parent company, Reed Business, was owned by Elsevier.  Dorothea shows us the rights-text from the two different author agreements she saw from LJ--and she has some practical advice for others planning to write for LJ, in order to maintain the most control over your own work:

If you write for Library Journal (and whether you do is between you and your conscience; nothing to do with me), ASK FOR THE OTHER AGREEMENT, because the first agreement is intellectual-property brigandry of the highest order.

I have to say that having had experience with Elsevier myself, and having written once for LJ's NetConnect, I did not have the presence of mind to even think that there was another agreement possibly available.  And, given what I now know about parent companies of different journals (which, had I been responsible, I would have figured out before), I am a bit uncertain about which journals I should and shouldn't write for.  It's hard to decide which groups to support in the name of professional development, furthering your own writing career, and plain 'ol getting published.