A new MIT Libraries’ tutorial “Scholarly Publication and Copyright: Retaining Rights & Increasing the Impact of Research” is now available online.
Part 1 focuses on how copyright law intersects with the publication process. Download part 1 (5:38 min.)
Part 2 reviews why you might want to retain rights when you publish and how you can do so. Download Part 2 (9:47 min.)
Part 3 provides information on increasing the impact of your research by making it available through open access channels. Download Part 3 (8:55 min.)
Together, these three parts are intended to explain how copyright relates to publication agreements for research articles, and how authors can increase the impact of their work by negotiating to retain rights to post their articles on the web or reuse them in other ways.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
