1. Know Your Rights! Copyright and Publishing Scholarly Work Rina Elster Pantalony, Director Copyright Advisory Office Columbia University

2. Copyright and Publishing As author, you are the first copyright owner Copyright attaches to a work upon creation Copyright protects expressions of ideas fixed in a tangible medium Basic term of protection is life of the author plus 70 years Copyright is a bundle of rights

3. Copyright Upon Publication You, the author, may be asked by a publisher to assign your copyright The assignment is a provision in the publishing agreement Contract law governs the assignment and statutory copyright law can be modified by terms and conditions of contract

4. Do You Have to Assign Your Rights? You can assign your rights – Means you no longer control or own your rights to the work you wrote You can refuse to assign your rights – Retain your rights – License a right of publication and distribution keeping in mind the trifecta of a license Territory Exclusivity Time

5. The Middle Ground You can assign some rights and reserve some rights – Reserve your rights to publish and distribute copies of your articles On your own website Within research networks As part of your dissertation As part of ongoing research reports As requirements of a grant In Academic Commons

6. What About Joint Copyright Joint authorship = Joint copyright ownership? What if you are a research assistant? Issue managed through contract Best practice is to determine issues prior to commencing research

7. What About Using Other People’s Work? Idea Derivative work License and asking permission Citation and attribution Fair Use Publisher requirements?

8. Grants and Open Access National Institute of Health – Requires open access 12 months after publication White House Office of Science and Technology – mandates public access to federally funded research 12 months after publication For report or publication and related data Private funders such as Gates Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute adopted similar funding policies

9. Open Access @ Columbia Objective is to share scholarly works publicly Columbia has an open access policy – Piecemeal adoption by department and school – Voluntary participation – Operates like a license to Columbia for your work Schools like MIT and Harvard apply open access policies and require participation Harvard now requires participation for tenure

10. Academic Commons Columbia’s Institutional Repository Publicly accessible online Means of self-publication with digital object identifier Each record has an actual research output Provides long term storage solution of your work Open to faculty, students, staff @ Columbia Provides you with monthly usage report academiccommons.columbia.edu