Understand publisher agreements and protect your rights as an author
When you publish your research, you'll be asked to sign a publishing agreement. Understanding these terms is crucial to protecting your rights and ensuring you can reuse and share your work.
Many publishers require authors to transfer copyright. This means you give up ownership and may need permission to reuse your work.
Rights you retain as an author, such as the right to use your work in teaching, share with colleagues, or post online.
A delay between publication and when the article becomes freely available in a repository.
The practice of depositing a copy of your article in an institutional or subject repository.
Fees charged to authors to publish in open access journals.
Standardized licenses that allow authors to specify how others can use their work.
Click on any publisher to view their full self-archiving policy.
A legal instrument that modifies the publisher's standard copyright agreement, allowing you to retain key rights.
Select journals that allow authors to retain copyright and use Creative Commons licenses.
Deposit your work in the UR Digital Repository to ensure long-term access and compliance with funder mandates.
Use Sherpa Romeo to quickly check publisher copyright and self-archiving policies.
Use this author addendum to modify your publishing agreement and retain key rights.
Download Author AddendumContact our research support team for assistance with publisher agreements.
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