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Protecting your copyright
Once
your work is in a fixed tangible medium you have copyright of it, and
you retain it until you give it away.
Why should you retain your copyright?
Why retain your
rights? (MIT Libraries: Retaining Rights & Increasing the Impact
of Your Research)
Tutorial from
MIT: "Scholarly Publication and Copyright: Retaining Rights &
Increasing the Impact of Research”
How can you retain your
copyright?
If
you retain the right, consider depositing the full text of your scholarly
output in the University of Tennessee’s digital archive, TRACE.
See what rights you
retain under the default copyright agreement with traditional publishers using SHERPA/RoMEO.
Talk with your publisher about retaining the elements of your copyright that are important to you. Most journals are used to these requests, and many have standard policies to agree to certain changes when asked.
You can use
the Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine to
help secure your rights as the author of a journal article.
UTK has a support fund to
help pay potential costs when publishing in open access journals.
Use the Directory of Open Access
Journals to find an open access journal in your field.
For more information see UTK libraries copyright page
Teaching Faculty
Copyright in a teaching setting The Association of
Research Libraries has developed an excellent brochure that
covers the most common copyright issues encountered in a teaching setting. In
particular, the one-page “What You Can Do”
chartis useful for quick reference. (Click here for
the full-color version). These tools provided
by the Copyright Advisory Subcommittee of the ALA can be helpful when trying to
understand the complexities of copyright. Teaching faculty may be particularly
interested in the Exceptions for
Instructors eTool. Minnesota fair
use analysis tool Stanford
Copyright & Fair Use Center
For more information see UTK libraries copyright page