Authors and Copyright
Copyright and the NIH Open Access Policy
It is the author’s responsibility to make sure you have the right to deposit your manuscript with PubMed Central. If you submit your article without first securing this right you would be in violation of NIH policy.
Manage Your Copyright
Why?
By managing your copyright, you can retain the rights to:
- distribute copies of your articles to your students.
- use portions of your articles in subsequent publications (e.g., figures).
- grant others permission to use your work.
- place the article in an open access repository such as PubMed Central and eScholarship.
How?
Resources on Author's Rights
UC Copyright Website. This site serves as an educational resource for the UC community. The site assembles a wide range of materials related to the use of copyrighted and public domain materials by individuals and educational institutions.
SPARC - Authors Rights. Developed by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system. Sherpa/Romeo.
Sherpa/Romeo is a database from the United Kingdom with publisher's copyright and archiving policies, complete with links to publisher and journal policy pages. (Please note that these listings may not be up-to-date: check the publisher's website.)