OPEN ACCESS WEEK OCTOBER 18-24, 2010 Retain Your Copyright Nicole Gjertsen, Liaison Librarian Shane Plante, Liaison Librarian

Workshop Outline Introductions Your Copyright Transferring Rights to a Publisher Ways to Retain Copyright

Your Copyright Distribution / Publishing Performance / Display Right of reproduction Right to create translations / derivative works Authorization to exercise the above rights

SFU’s Intellectual Property Policy Excerpts from SFU’s Intellectual Property Policy (R 30.03): 5.1 Although the University has the right to require assignment of an interest in IP created by a University Member through the use of its resources, the full ownership of IP and all rights pertaining to ownership are vested in the Creator, unless the Creator has entered into an agreement with the University to the contrary. 5.2 The University specifically acknowledges that the substance of a lecture, whether delivered in the classroom or via other means, belongs to the Creator (in this case the lecturer) and that records of such lectures do not constitute IP under the terms of this Policy. 5.4 The University specifically acknowledges that IP created exclusively by a student Creator in the course of completing the requirements for an academic degree or certificate is owned by the student Creator …

Ways To Retain Your Copyright 1) Publish in a journal that allows you to keep your rights 2) Negotiate with a publisher to keep all (or some) of your rights

What is Open Access? “… free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles […] The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.” - From the Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002)

Open Access Options Publish in an open access journal  (Gold open access) Publish in a conventional journal but also publish your article in an online repository for a discipline (e.g., arXiv for physics) or an institution (e.g., SOAR at SFU)arXivSOAR  (Green open access)

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Open Access Journals

Transferring Rights to a Publisher It is possible to grant only those rights to a publisher that they need to conduct their business  e.g., right to first publication Examples of rights that are negotiable: Right to distribute your work on campus (to colleagues and/or students) Right to archive your work in an institutional repository Right to use your work in your teaching Right to post your work to a personal / professional webpage

SHERPA/RoMEO

SHERPA/RoMEO

Sherpa Romeo

Retaining Your Rights Modifying the original copyright agreement Including an addendum

Modifying agreements From:

Modifying agreements From:

JISC Copyright Toolbox

Scholar’s Copyright Addendum Engine

Retaining Your Rights Using the SPARC Addendum

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