As an author, you maintain certain, exclusive rights to your work through copyright. It is important to understand your rights and the control you have with your work.
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) provides many resources on copyright and author rights. To view their website and brochure on author rights, please click here.
The following video on Author Rights was created by the Institute on Scholarly Communication in association with SPARC.
SPARC's Author Rights is an educational initiative that informs faculty across all disciplines about their copyrights, and how to use the SPARC Author Addendum to effectively manage your rights as a journal article author to ensure that your article can be accessed and used as broadly as possible.
Sherpa Romeo is an online resource that aggregates and analyses publisher open access policies from around the world and provides summaries of publisher copyright and open access archiving policies on a journal-by-journal basis.
