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Publishing and Copyright Resources

These resources are meant to support scholarly publishing by providing potential dissemination outlets, publishers' information, and offering links to copyright information, useful for determining author's rights.

Bibliography of PSU Resources

Publishers Licenses
Yale University Library's Liblicense website addresses the increasing need to share information on commonly occurring clauses in contracts used by libraries and publishers in negotiating access to information resources. Licenses dictate the appropriate use and authorized users of the licensed material and cover areas such as scholarly, research and educational use; commercial use; inclusion in course packs; sharing through interlibrary loan; and the creation of derivative works. The Publishers licenses (http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/publishers.shtml) portion of Liblicense is a good starting point for determining what you can do with the electronic resource you've accessed through the Library's website.

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Locate newspapers, magazines and journals published in the United States and internationally. Ulrich's includes full text magazine reviews and allows advanced searching by discipline, limits such as "peer reviewed" or "electronic" and includes links to journal wesbites where you will find submission guidelines.

Copyright and Intellectual Property Resources

PSU Copyright Information

The United States Copyright Office Library of Congress

Licensing, Patents, Educational and Professional Materials Development, and Copyright Policies and Procedures
Portland State University Office of Research and Sponsored Projects

Copyright, Intellectual Property Rights and Copyright Issues
Berkeley Digital Library

Copyright Crash Course
University of Texas

Copyright and Intellectual Property Resources, IFLANET

Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine
an online tool to simplify the process of choosing and implementing an addendum to retain scholarly rights; any author can fill in a form to generate and print a completed amendment that can be attached to a publisher's copyright agreement to retain rights to reuse and offer their works online; the new "Access-Reuse" addendum will ensure that authors not only retain the rights to reuse their own work and post them on online depositories, but also to grant a non-exclusive license, such as the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial license, to the public to reuse and distribute the work

SPARC Resources for Authors
practical guidance when submitting journal articles; help to negotiate author's rights and alternative publishing options

Sherpa ~ Search for the copyright policies by journal title, to learn, for example, your rights as an author (Can I publish a pre-print or post-print copy of my article?) or restrictions imposed by publishers

SPARC Template for author's rights negotiation

Creative Commons Licensing Guide

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