Defending Your Rights: Author Agreements and Open Access

Presenter(s) Information

Holly Gabriel, Southern Oregon UniversityFollow
Thomas A. Dodson, Southern Oregon UniversityFollow

Presentation Type

60-minute Presentation/Panel

Description

Disseminating scholarly activities can be a complex field to nativage for both librarians and faculty. This session will advise attendees regarding how to maintain authors’ rights when publishing scholarly work. We will explore several journal copyright transfer agreements to highlight authors’ rights to share their work openly, such as in their campus institutional repositories. The presenters will showcase the SHERPA/RoMEO database as well as SPARC’s online author addenda tools to locate publisher’s policies. Attendees will also learn the benefits of sharing scholarly work openly together with tips for negotiating with publishers.

Learning Outcomes

1. Understand and evaluate copyright transfer agreements when publishing in a journal

2. Learn how to find and examine a journal’s standard copyright and authors’ rights policies

3. Discover the benefits of retaining authors’ rights and making work freely available

4. Gain tips to negotiate authors’ rights with publishers

Rights

© 2022 Holly Gabriel and Thomas A. Dodson

In Copyright. URI: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).

Twitter Handle(s)

@nousepretending

Start Date

3-25-2022 1:40 PM

End Date

3-25-2022 4:10 PM

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/37334

Subjects

Scholarly publishing, Scholarly communication, Open access publishing, Open access to research