Authors are often unsure what rights they retain when signing a publisher agreement for a journal article. Our Bodleian iSkills workshops iSkills: Fundamentals of Open Access and iSkills: Foundations of Copyright for Researchers cover the key issues.
In order to understand your rights as an author it is important to understand copyright and how it works. The Bodleian Libraries have information about copyright and you can contact copyright@bodleian.ox.ac.uk for further guidance.
When you publish your work it is important to select the right kind of reuse licence so that others know what they are allowed to do with it. For funded research, you should make sure that the licence you choose is compatible with your funder open access policy.
When your work is accepted for publication you will be presented with a publishing agreement. You should make sure you are aware of what you are signing and what this means for the use and reuse of your work.
The University has now implemented rights retention into its Open Access Publications Policy. This allows the author accepted manuscripts of journal articles and conference proceedings to be made available open access immediately under a Creative Commons licence. For more information see the Open Access Oxford Guide to Rights Retention.
Open Access Helpdesk
openaccess@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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researchdata@ox.ac.uk
ORA Team
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