Research Guides @ Fordham: Scholarly Communication: Author Rights

Author Rights

Author rights are a bundle of rights that you may maintain depending on what you publish, where you publish it, and the terms agreed upon in a publishing contract. They may include permissions to:

Reproduce your work.
Distribute you work.
Create derivatives, iterations, or adaptations or your work (including translations).
Authorize others to exercise any of these rights.
Transfer any or all of these rights to another organization (publisher) or individual.

Author Rights & Journals

Author Rights & the SPARC Author Addendum
A guide for thinking through signing a publishing contract with a gated, peer-reviewed journal.
Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine
Tool from CC Science Commons will help you generate a PDF form to attach to a journal publisher's copyright agreement to ensure that you retain certain rights.
Authors Alliance
Advocacy organization providing information and tools to help authors better understand and manage key legal, technological, and institutional aspects of authorship in the digital age including open access, copyright, fair use, rights reversion, termination of transfer, and publication contracts.
SHERPA/RoMEO
A database of journal publisher copyright policies and guidelines on self-archiving. This database can help determine if you are able to submit your work to an open access repository.

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