Copyright FAQ

The page created by the The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) includes links to an Introduction to Copyright Resources for Authors, the Author Rights brochure, and the US SPARC Author Addendum, "a legal instrument that you can use to modify your copyright transfer agreements with non-open access journal publishers. It allows you to select which individual rights out of the bundle of copyrights you want to keep."

SHERPA RoMEO is an online resource that aggregates and analyses publisher open access policies from around the world and provides summaries of self-archiving permissions and conditions of rights given to authors on a journal-by-journal basis. "Use this site to find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement." The site also

SHERPA services for helping authors and institutions make informed and confident decisions in open access publication and compliance.

Information on Creative Commons copyright licenses

"SHERPA/FACT is a tool to help researchers check if the journals in which they wish to publish their results comply with their funder's requirements for open access to research."