Friday, August 01, 2008

Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) advises copyright retention!

The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) has issued an Intellectual Property Advisory, advising scholars to retain their copyright, and providing advice as to how, including use of the SPARC Canadian Authors Addendum!

Excerpt:

The purpose of this advisory is to assist academic staff in retaining copyright ownership in the articles they publish in journals. Without copyright ownership, academic staff can lose control of their own work and may no longer be entitled to email it to students and colleagues, post it on a personal or course web page, place it in an institutional repository, publish it in an open access journal or include it in a subsequent compilation.

Thanks to Kenneth D. Gariepy for the tip, Paul Jones, CAUT, SPARC an CARL!

This post is part of the Canadian Leadership in the Open Access Movement series