Scholarly Communication  Tags: research scholarly_communication publishing open_access copyright  

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As soon as your work is in a tangible form (a Word document, a web site, a recording), the copyright is yours.  You own the right to:

• reproduce your work
• distribute your work
• prepare derivative works
• publicy display or perform your work
• authorize others to do any of the above

You do not have to register your work to obtain copyright, but registration can help in the event of copyright infringement or other legal issues.

You own the copyright for your life plus 70 years.

You can give away or sell any or all of your rights.  Giving up your rights may limit access to and impact of your work.

Some publishers require you to sign away your rights.  See the "What journals let me keep my rights?" section below to see publishers' copyright and self-archiving policies.

You can keep your copyright, and grant exclusive or non-exclusive licesnes so others can use your work. 

Find out more about holding on to your rights and licensing your work on the Author Addenda and Creative Commons pages of this guide.

SHERPA/RoMEO
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

"Use this site to find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement."  Search by journal or publisher.  Each publisher is given a color code based on restrictions, or lack thereof, placed on authors.

Slides and handout from Caroline's faculty seminar on author rights, fall 2008.  The handout has been modified.