Know Your Author Rights: Retain Your Right to Self-Archive
How can you publish in leading journals while retaining the right to place your articles in CSU’s developing digital repository?
SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (http://www.arl.org/sparc/), has developed
one tool to assist authors in keeping key rights to the articles that they publish. Their Author Rights brochure details the Author Addendum, a legal instrument that authors may use to modify their publication agreements with publishers.
The Author Rights Addendum can be downloaded as one element of the informative Author Rights pages made available by SPARC, an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system.
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8. Ibid, p23.
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11. Baker, M. p. 23.
12. Ibid. p. 23.