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Open Access& Publishing Models

This guide provides an overview of the Open Access Concepts, benefits, and Open Access publishing models

Know Your Rights

As the author of a work, you hold the copyright to that work, unless you transfer it to another entity.  Most traditional journals require authors to transfer their copyright, by signing a copyright transfer agreement, to the publisher as a condition of publication. At this point, the author ceases to own copyright on the work that he or she created. This means that authors may surrender their rights to share their work openly on personal websites, etc. Recently, at least one publisher has exercised its rights to control access to the scholarship it published by sending take-down notices to the authors that created it

Authors do have options available to them to ensure that they retain sufficient rights to make some version of their work openly available online. 

Learn more about Author's rights (PDF)

Scientist Meets Publisher

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