Copyright Resources and Current Issues

SPARC has been a long time leader in the effort to make scholarly communication as widely distributed as possible. They tirelessly provide educational experiences, they organize information and they support open access publishing in many ways. SPARC has kept their Create Change site spruced up with new ideas, and have been continually expanding as they learn from experience in shaping and observing the emerging open access movement.

http://www.createchange.org/

Their Stay Informed page includes an excellent list of resources for keeping up with the changing face of scholarly communication.

Posted by Lorre Smith at 01:03 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

As I've been presenting sessions on author rights to scholarly authors, I have been gathering resources from here and there on the net. I was pleasantly surprised to see the launch announcement for this site as I was catching up with emails. It appears to manufacture an attractive addendum for the specific citation, which assures that the items is identified in the text of the addendum.

"The Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine will help you generate a PDF form that you can attach to a journal publisher's copyright agreement to ensure that you retain certain rights."

The page also contains a link to the MIT author's addendum, another favorite of mine.

http://scholars.sciencecommons.org/

Posted by Lorre Smith at 02:48 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)