Copy of Copyright & Fair Use

• So you can share your work freely with students and colleagues.
• Because you don't have to give up all your rights to publish.
• Keeping your rights allows you to place your work in our Institutional Repository.
• Keeping your rights could dramatically increase the work's reach and impact.
• You don't know what you might want to do with the work in the future.

The SPARC Author Addendum is a legal instrument that you can use to modify your copyright transfer agreements with non-open access journal publishers.  It allows you to select which individual rights out of the bundle of copyrights you want to keep, such as:

• Distributing copies in the course of teaching and research,
• Posting the article on a personal or institutional Web site, or
• Creating derivative works

Visit the site below to download the SPARC AA form.

"Author Rights." SPARC. Available at:http://www.sparc.arl.org/initiatives/author-rights. Accessed 27 Feb 2014. 

1. Study the contract carefully.  

2. Negotiate with the publisher.

3. Keep the copyrights that are important to you.