Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely accessible, usually openly licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching, learning, educational, assessment and research purposes. These high quality educational materials can be downloaded, edited, shared re-post or remixed in accordance to their Creative Commons liscense.
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"Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.” (Peter Suber)
*OA removes price barriers (subscriptions, licensing fees, pay-per-view fees) and permission barriers (most copyright and licensing restrictions).
View Open Access Resources for Faculty Guide
View Open Educational Resources for Faculty Guide
"Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.” (Peter Suber)
*OA removes price barriers (subscriptions, licensing fees, pay-per-view fees) and permission barriers (most copyright and licensing restrictions).
View Open Access Resources for Faculty Guide
Under U.S. Copyright law YOU as the AUTHOR have the following exclusive rights unless and until you transfer the copyright in a signed agreement:
Copyright protection is automatic. The author obtains these exclusive rights at the moment the copyrighted work has been “fixed in a tangible medium.
DON'T GIVE AWAY these rights by signing publisher's copyright transfer agreements (CTA's) without reading them.
- Right to reproduce
- Right to distribute
- Right to adapt
- Right to publicly perform
- Right to publicly display the copyrighted work.
Copyright protection is automatic. The author obtains these exclusive rights at the moment the copyrighted work has been “fixed in a tangible medium.
DON'T GIVE AWAY these rights by signing publisher's copyright transfer agreements (CTA's) without reading them.
Author's Rights organizations
- Authors Rights Initiative - "You have the right to own your work" - (SPARC)
- SHERPA/RoMEO- check publisher agreements
- Keep your copyrights.org -sample clauses & contracts
- Author's Rights - model language for authors (ARL subgroup)
SAMPLE Publisher Addendums
- Sample Publishing Agreement ( Word doc)
- SPARC sample addendum (Word doc)
- CIC sample addendum (pdf)
- 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.
Open Access 101, from SPARC from Karen Rustad on Vimeo.
Julia Rodriguez
Associate Professor / Nursing, Health Sciences & Scholarly Communications Librarian
juliar@oakland.edu
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Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational
Overivew of Open Access by Peter Suber author of SPARC Open Access Newsletter
Open Access News blog - Peter Suber
Overivew of Open Access by Peter Suber author of SPARC Open Access Newsletter
Open Access News blog - Peter Suber