Your rights to your published work:

a workshop addressing these questions:

1. “Can I post my publications in full text on…my web sitemy departmental websitethe institutional web sitemy course siteAcademia.eduResearchGate.netMendeley.comsubject-based sites such as SSRN or arXiv?” ..2. How do I figure that out?3. What tools allow me to retain rights to my published works?

Barbara DeFeliceProgram Director, Scholarly Communication, Copyright and PublishingJen Green, Digital Scholarship LibrarianDartmouth College Library10/20/15 Copyright©2015 Trustees of Dartmouth College

What We’ll Do1.Review your rights to your own published work to post on different kinds of “scholarly collaboration networks”, and web sites. 2.Learn about tools, best practices and assistance to help you in working with publishers and in making your work more available to other scholars and learners. 3.Review what is changing so authors can more easily exert their rights and share their work. 4.Reading your publisher contract- in small groups by subject area. 5.What did you learn?

Your work is intellectually yours(credit, attribution, citation) --

And legally yours…..(copyright in place upon creation) Until you give it

away

Intellectual Ownership & Legal Ownership of Published Scholarly Materials

The Problem: Constraints Placed by Publishers• On authors’ rights to share and

reuse materials• On access, despite promise of the

Web for inexpensive, broad distribution

• Constraints can be imposed on authors because of terms of author publication license and/or copyright transfer agreements

Copyright Transfer

COPYRIGHT is a bundle of rights:• Reproduce / copy• Prepare adaptations/

Derivative Works • Distribute • Display/perform publicly

Copyright or License agreement transfers copyright(s) to publisher; controls author’s future uses

“..you assign to us…all rights of copyright and

related rights..”

Tools You Can Use to:

Sherpa RoMEO (publisher & journal info)Dartmouth’s Publication Agreement Amendment (retain your rights)Dartmouth Faculty Open Access Policy

Policy text Policy FAQ Creative Commons Licenses

• Know what rights you have• Choose publishers with author

friendly copyright transfer and license policies

• Retain the rights you need • Make your work accessible

Sherpa RoMEO Summaries of Publisher Policies

•

Dartmouth Author’s Publication Agreement AmendmentAuthor retains rights to:•reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, and to publicly display the Work … non-commercial•prepare derivative works from the Work•authorize others to make any non-commercial use of the Work with attribution•make and distribute copies in the course of teaching and research •post the Work on personal or institutional Web sites and in other open-access digital repositories

Amend the amendment to get what you need!

The Dartmouth Faculty Open Access Policy Enables Faculty to Retain

Rights • Allows for sharing on web, reuse in publications

and for course readings• Avoids need for any individual negotiation• Takes precedence over publisher agreement• Author benefits from rights through the

institution regardless of terms of publisher agreement, unless author has opted out for the paper

• Applies to scholarly articles only• Copyright is not transferred to the institution

Elsevier

6 Creative Commons License Combinations

Attribution Non-commercial (by-nc) provides for building upon and remixing but NOT for commercial purposes

Creative Commons Search

Attribution Share Alike (by-sa) allows building upon and remixing the work, even for commercial purposes. The users must license their work as Share Alike also.

Attribution (by) alone provides for all kinds of uses, including derivative works.

Attribution No Derivatives (by-nd)

Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd) is most restrictive

Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa) provides for building upon and remixing but NOT for commercial purposes

So can I post my article? Scholarly Collaboration or Sharing Networks

From Academia.edu:“Boost Citations by 73%A recent study found that papers uploaded to Academia.edu receive a 73% boost in citations over 5 years.”

1. Read 1 or more publisher agreements & consider these questions:

• Who owns the work after you sign?• Can you put your article up on your website or other websites

after you sign?• Can you send a copy to a colleague?• Can you write a longer (or translated) version and publish it, or

put it in your talk?• Can you use it as course reading? For an on-campus course?

For DartmouthX?2. What tools would you use to determine what rights the

publisher returns to you?3. What tools would you use to make changes to the default

agreement?

Your turn!

Reflection

• What did you learn from reading the contracts?

• What might account for differences among publishers?

• What questions do you have?• Other thoughts?

Help, Resources & AcknowledgementsHelp with author rights and publishing contracts at the Dartmouth College Library: Barbara DeFelice, Jen Green, and Eliz Kirk

ResourcesScholarly Publishing and Communication Guide, section on Authors RightsScholarly Publishing and Communication: Issues and Resources

Acknowledgements Thanks to Ellen Finnie Duranceau of MIT’s Library for her contributions to the development of this workshop.