Copyright and Fair Use
Video: I Wrote it Can I Post it?
Many journals and publishers require that a scholar sign copyrights to them, either partially or in full, when publishing work. Signing away copyrights often prevents authors from posting making free copies of their work on personal websites or electronic course reserves.
Author Rights Resources
- SPARC's Author Rights InitiativeAn educational initiative that informs faculty across all disciplines about how to secure your rights as authors of journal articles.
- Create ChangeInformation on how the changing nature of scholarship can affect you and your research and scholarship. Offers practical ways to look out for your own interests as a researcher.
- SHERPA/RoMEOUse this site to find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement.
- Authors and Authority: Perspectives and Negotiating Licenses and CopyrightFrom ALA Midwinter 2006, podcasts on negotiating the changing relationship between authors and publishers. Perspectives from a publisher, an attorney, and a librarian.
- Know Your Copy RightsSuggestions as to what academic stakeholders can do to enhance copyright practices and advance academic interests.
Author Rights Tools
- Scholar's Copyright Addendum EngineA Creative Commons engine for scholars that automatically generates addendums to attach to your publishing agreement, to help you maintain control over your own work.
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