Copyright, Publishing, and Intellectual Property: Faculty Workshop Series Continues; New UC-Springer Open Access Agreement
The Library's popular faculty lunch series continues in the winter quarter with:
"Don't I Own My Own Work?": Negotiating to Keep Your Copyright
Thursday, March 5; noon - 1:30 p.m.
Charles E. Young Research Library
As a UCLA faculty member, you must be productive in a "publish or perish" environment. But in your rush to publish, are you signing an agreement with your publisher without reading it fully or understanding its implications? You might unknowingly surrender your copyright and, along with it, the rights to use and reuse your work as you wish. Find out how to read author agreements and how to negotiate to keep your rights. Learn from colleagues who have efficiently negotiated agreements without risk to their academic advancement.
Attendance is open to UCLA faculty only; admission is free, but advance reservations are required. Lunch will be provided. Register Online
New UC-wide Open Access Agreement
UC's California Digital Library has completed successful negotiations with Springer to launch an open access arrangement as part of its 2008 Springer journals license. This will allow all articles by UC-affiliated authors to be issued under Springer's "Open Choice" model without additional author fees.
The articles will be accessible via SpringerLink and will be published under the terms of a Creative Commons attribution, non-commercial license. When publishing in a Springer journal, authors will see acceptance screens advising them of this arrangement. Authors will not be offered an opt-out option at this time, although this can be considered for a later stage if there is a demand for it.
Planning is also underway for automatic deposit of these articles into the UC eScholarship Repository.
