1. Author’s Rights And the Role of Copyright Slides produced by the Copyright Education & Consultation Program

2. Guiding Questions What are my rights as an author? Is it important to retain my rights? Why? How can I retain my rights? How can the university use my works? What is open access publishing and why should I consider it? How are licenses different? Slides produced by the Copyright Education & Consultation Program

3. What are my rights as an author? As the creator of a work, you own the copyright to that work and hence have the sole right to: o Publish, reproduce, sell, perform, and prepare derivative works or your material Slides produced by the Copyright Education & Consultation Program

4. Why Retain My Rights? You preserve control of your work! If you sign your copyright away to a publisher: o May need permission to use your own work o May have to pay for access o Your university may also have to buy back access Slides produced by the Copyright Education & Consultation Program

5. How can I retain my rights? Publishing contract addenda o Write-in what rights you would like to retain o One of many websites that provide sample addenda: http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/index.shtml http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/index.shtml Choose your journal wisely o Different journals have different restrictions o SHERPA RoMEO shows you how restrictive different contracts are: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ Open access journals or institutional repositories Slides produced by the Copyright Education & Consultation Program

6. How Can My University Use My Work? Universities make individual policies regarding copyright ownership of: o Faculty work o Student work for class o Theses and dissertations Slides produced by the Copyright Education & Consultation Program

7. What is Open Access Publishing? Allows you to share your work freely Benefits include: o Increased access to your work and thus higher citation frequency Drawbacks include: o Some publishers will not accept work that has already been published via open access methods Slides produced by the Copyright Education & Consultation Program

8. Examples of Open Access Institutional Repositories o These are produced by educational institutions o Open access is an option o Typically researchers will publish their work in both a repository and a more traditional journal o An example: www.ideals.illinois.eduwww.ideals.illinois.edu Slides produced by the Copyright Education & Consultation Program

9. How are licenses different? A license on a work always takes precedence over copyright Publishing using a creative commons license is increasingly popular for creative works o These licenses specify the ways users can manipulate or use your work o Visit http://CreativeCommons.org/licenses for more informationhttp://CreativeCommons.org/licenses Slides produced by the Copyright Education & Consultation Program

10. Questions? Slides produced by the Copyright Education & Consultation Program

11. More Info … The Copyright Education & Consultation Program is funded by a Library and Technical Services Grant Administered by the Illinois State Library Please visit our website at http://go.illinois.edu/copyrighthttp://go.illinois.edu/copyright Slides produced by the Copyright Education & Consultation Program