Faculty Publishing and Copyright

Retention of rights when publishing

Many faculty sign agreements with publishers for articles without realizing what rights they are surrendering. Some professors have discovered that they cannot even put copies of published articles that they have written on their own web site without securing permission from the publisher. More and more faculty are now signing publishing contracts which permit them to retain certain rights such as posting their own article on their own Web site, etc. The Boston Library Consortium has posted a model agreement (see below) and you will also find such agreements on the Association of Research Libraries Web site.

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Boston Library Consortium, Inc. Adopts Agreement to Extend Author’s Rights

Copyright resources for authors