Copyright: For Authors

RoMEO is a searchable database of publisher's policies regarding the self- archiving of journal articles on the web and in Open Access repositories. (Copied from the RoMEO FAQ webpage 2016, 8 November)

The SPARC Author Addendum is a legal instrument that modifies the publisher’s agreement and allows you to keep key rights to your articles. The Author Addendum is a free resource developed by SPARC in partnership with Creative Commons and Science Commons, established non-profit organizations that offer a range of copyright options for many different creative endeavors. (Copied from the SPARC website 2016, 8 November)

Each addendum gives you non-exclusive rights to create derivative works from your Article and to reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, and publicly display your article in connection with your teaching, conference presentations, lectures, other scholarly works, and professional activities. However, they differ with respect to how soon you can make the final published version available and whether you can authorize others to re-use your work in various ways. (Copied from the Science Commons website 2016, 8 November)

The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC)¹ is a consortium of 15 world-class American
research universities, advancing their missions by sharing expertise, leveraging campus
resources and collaborating on innovative programs. They have created a standard addendum for copyright agreements.