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Faculty and Grad Student authors,

Here is the URL for a database (SHERPA) that rates publishers on two important aspects of copyright: the author's ability to post open access preprints or postprints of their own papers. It also provides links to the copyright statements of each publisher. You may find it helpful in determining where you should publish. Use this site to find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement.
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php

For an explanation of the project see: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/index.html

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) are quickly becoming very important to authors who wish to contribute papers to institutional repositories or preserve e-prints in a digital archive (self-archiving). To self-archive is to deposit a digital document in a publicly accessible website, preferably an OAI-compliant Eprint Archive. For more information see: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/nature4.htm

A description from the website: "SHERPA is part of the JISC FAIR (Focus on Access to Institutional Resources) Programme which supports projects aiming to achieve the "disclosure of institutional assets" with the vision of setting up a "web of resources built by groups with a long term stake in the future of those resources, but made available through service providers to the whole community of learning."

Text by C. Brach, Engineering Librarian

 

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