Resources About Authors' Rights
- Authors' RightsSPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) resources explaining your rights as an author and how to use the SPARC author's addendum.
- Keep Your CopyrightsA website from Columbia University Law School informing authors about their rights regarding copyright.
- Retain Your CopyrightsInformation from the Claremont Colleges Library.
- SHERPA/RoMEO"RoMEO is a searchable database of publisher's policies regarding the self- archiving of journal articles on the web and in Open Access repositories."
Creative Commons Licenses
As an author, you're entitled to deciding how your work should be shared with others. With Creative Commons licenses, you can fine-tune how exactly you'd like your works to be covered. The infograph below by Barbara Klute and Jöran Muuß-Merholz can help you determine what license best suits the needs for your respective works.
- Creative Commons LicensesView the license conditions, legal codes, and license deeds for Creative Commons licenses
- Creative Commons - Public Domain ToolsAccess various tools to help make your work available within the public domain.
- Creative Commons - Choose a LicenseChoose a Creative Commons license for your work, and download the appropriate icon to display with your work.