Copyright Help
The sites below will help you obtain the necessary copyright permissions to submit your manuscript to PubMed Central. The last link is a list of journals that automatically submits manuscripts for authors into PubMed Central. If your article is published in one of these journals, you do not need to do anything else to comply with the NIH Public Access Policy.
- Copyright Help from SPARC
- Retaing your copyright to depost articles in PubMed Central from ARL
- Complying with the National Institues of Health Public Access Policy: Copyright considerations and options A PDF with specific options for researchers and institutions to handle the copyright requirements of complying with the new NIH policy.
- Archived webinar sponsored by ARL/NASULGC - shown 3/7/08 This archived webinar presentation highlights strategies institutions and individuals can follow to ensure compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy, especially in regards to copyright compliance.
- Short Video on Author's Rights This short video highlights author's rights when it comes to getting an article published, and strategies to secure the rights needed for needed information dissemination.
- Journals that Automatically Submits Manuscripts to PubMed Central
- “PubMed Central Deposit and Author Rights: Agreements between 12 Publishers and the Authors Subject to the NIH Public Access Policy,” by Ben Grillot. An interesting report on publishers' policies related to PubMed Central submission, “PubMed Central Deposit and Author Rights: Agreements between 12 Publishers and the Authors Subject to the NIH Public Access Policy,” by Ben Grillot.
- Authors' Rights This is a resource page for authors and their copyrights produced by ARL.
- Managing Copyright for NIH Policy Public Access: Strategies to Ensure Compliance This article, writtien by Kevin L. Smith, Scholarly Communications Officer, Duke University, is found in the ARL News for June, 2008. It offers a broad look at copyright management for authors and institutions.
- Authors Rights A brochure from ARL describing how authors can secure thier copyrights and still get publsihed.
- Author-Rights Language in Library Content Author-Rights Language in Library Content Licenses
Ellen Duranceau, Scholarly Publishing and Licensing Consultant, MIT Libraries, and Ivy Anderson, Director of Collections, California Digital Library
NIH Suggested Language
Can NIH provide language that could be used in a copyright agreement between an author or institution and a publisher?
NIH can provide an example. Individual copyright arrangements can take many forms, and authors and their institutions should continue to manage such arrangements as they have in the past. However, in order to comply with the NIH Public Access Policy, you must make sure that the agreement allows the accepted peer-reviewed manuscript to be deposited with the NIH upon acceptance of publication and made available for public posting on PubMed Central no later than 12 months after journal publication.
Institutions and investigators may wish to develop particular copyright agreement terms in consultation with their own legal counsel or other applicable official at their institution, as appropriate. As an example, the kind of language that an author or institution might add to a copyright agreement includes the following:
NIH can provide an example. Individual copyright arrangements can take many forms, and authors and their institutions should continue to manage such arrangements as they have in the past. However, in order to comply with the NIH Public Access Policy, you must make sure that the agreement allows the accepted peer-reviewed manuscript to be deposited with the NIH upon acceptance of publication and made available for public posting on PubMed Central no later than 12 months after journal publication.
Institutions and investigators may wish to develop particular copyright agreement terms in consultation with their own legal counsel or other applicable official at their institution, as appropriate. As an example, the kind of language that an author or institution might add to a copyright agreement includes the following:
Your Institution or professional society may have developed specific model language for this purpose, as well."Journal acknowledges that Author retains the right to provide a copy of the final manuscript to the NIH upon acceptance for Journal publication, for public archiving in PubMed Central as soon as possible but no later than 12 months after publication by Journal."
Articles of Interest
- Publish or Perish This article provides an interesting point-of-view on maintaning copyrights.
- Balancing Author and Publisher Rights, Peter Suber, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #110, June 2, 2007. An interesting opinion blog entry and author addendums.
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