Author Rights
What you can do:
SCHOLARS UNDERSTAND THAT PUBLISHERS MUST make money to survive, so they relinquish their for-profit rights. Retaining nonprofit author rights, however, allows scholars to share knowledge with their colleagues and with students and to archive their works. In order to retain nonprofit rights, you can do two things:
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SCHOLARS UNDERSTAND THAT PUBLISHERS MUST make money to survive, so they relinquish their for-profit rights. Retaining nonprofit author rights, however, allows scholars to share knowledge with their colleagues and with students and to archive their works. In order to retain nonprofit rights, you can do two things:- Find out what journals allow in their publishing agreements. To do this, visit Sherpa/RomEO, a guide to publisher copyright policies and self-archiving, or in Publishers/Associations, NCI-Frederick Scientific Library's resource for checking policies. These websites allow to you search or browse publishers and also divides them into categories: those that allow both pre- and post-print archiving, those that allow one but not the other, and those that allow neither.
- Visit SPARC and get a copy of its Author Addendum, a concise, one-page "legal instrument that modifies the publisher's agreement and allows you to keep key rights to your articles," rights that "give your research wide exposure and fulfill your goals as a scholar."
For more:
- SPARC's Author Rights brochure
- ACRL's Scholarly Communications Toolkit