Copyright & Open Access Publishing

Protecting your copyright: Why?

Why retain your rights? (MIT Libraries: Retaining Rights & Increasing the Impact of Your Research)

Tutorial from MIT: "Scholarly Publication and Copyright: Retaining Rights & Increasing the Impact of Research”

Protecting your copyright: How?

Use Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine (in May '07 it replaced the SPARC Author's Addendum) to secure your rights as the author of a journal article.

Additional resources for authors developed by the Association of Research Libraries can be found here.

Copyright issues for Teaching Faculty

The Association of Research Libraries has developed an excellent brochure that covers the most common copyright issues encountered in a teaching setting. In particular, the one-page “What You Can Do” chart is useful for quick reference. (Click here for the full-color version).

These tools provided by the Copyright Advisory Subcommittee of the ALA can be helpful when trying to understand the complexities of copyright. Teaching faculty may be particularly interested in the Exceptions for Instructors eTool.

Open Access Publishing

Peter Suber's Open Access Overview and his Field Guide to Misunderstandings about OA.

Identifying and Evaluating Author-Friendly Journals Susan Payne 2006.

PLoS: UT authors receive a 10% discount on publishing charges in PLoS because UT is an institutional member of PLoS.

Other Related Library Resouces

• Copyright information
• Scholarly Communication
• Electronic Resource Use Guidelines
  
  If you have additional questions, or are interested in learning more about open access publishing, please contact:
  
  
  Ann Viera
  Reference Librarian, Veterinary Medicine
  annviera@utk.edu
  Phone: 865.974.9015
  Peter Fernandez
  Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources Librarian
  pfernand@utk.edu
  Phone: 865.974.2886