Copyright Support and Issues

Use this site to find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement.

The Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine will help you generate a PDF form that you can attach to a journal publisher's copyright agreement to ensure that you retain certain rights.

Enter basic information about your article and generate a printable addendum to your publishing agreement in one easy step. Produced by Science Commons, the Scholar’s Copyright Addendum Engine features an updated version of the SPARC Author Addendum.

Information for MIT authors, but also useful at Caltech.
By regaining control of their own work and collaborating with other stakeholders, faculty and researchers can create an improved system without compromising the shared values of the academic community.

With a Creative Commons license, you keep your copyright but allow people to copy and distribute your work provided they give you credit — and only on the conditions you specify.

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Provides free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof.

Develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content.

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