Academic Publishing: Copyright & Your Publishing Agreements

Provides information on author Responsibilities and Copyright Guidelines.

To Share, copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix, adapt and make commercial use of the work.

"There is no registration to use the Creative Commons licenses. Licensing a work is as simple as selecting which of the six licenses best meets your goals, and then marking your work in some way so that others know that you have chosen to release the work under the terms of that license."

Includes information about your rights as authors, publisher agreements and model agreements.

This is a great resource for researching a publisher's policies on copyright, self-archiving and compliance with grant funding requirement.

Using the SPARC Author Addendum to secure your rights as the author of a journal article