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This Scholarly Communication web site is intended to inform faculty, administrators and librarians of the current issues and problems in many facets of the scholarly information universe, and to suggest actions for consideration by all participants. You will find links to key supporting materials and people to contact with specific questions you might have.
Key documents to assist scholars and researchers are:
- Dartmouth Author's Amendment, which makes it easy to retain the rights to reuse your material, post it on your web page and include it in an institutional repository. Download and sign this form, then attach it to the publisher's contract.
- NIH Public Access Policy, describing the policy and procedures for submitting articles written under NIH grants to be submitted to the open access PubMedCentral.
- Know Your Copy Rights-What You Can Do, a brochure which gives faculty and teaching assistants tips regarding using materials in teaching. You can print the whole brochure or just the one-page chart that outlines "What You Can Do".
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Key websites with background information:
- The Association for Research Libraries Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (ARL SPARC) is an excellent source of news and resources, including the Create Change website and the Resources page, which contains materials relating to repositories, open access and copyright issues. Here you can find the SPARC Author Addendum, a form you can sign and attach to a publisher's contract which covers a set of rights that an author might want to retain.
- ARL's website Know Your Copy Rights: Using Copyrighted Works in Academic Settings includes a PDF of a brochure called "Know Your Copy Rights-What You Can Do ", which is very useful as a quick reference for faculty regarding their rights to use material for teaching purposes. This brochure is also useful for librarians advising faculty and student regarding their rights to use materials. The website contains ideas and materials for an outreach program on use of materials in teaching and learning.
- For overviews for Administrators, Faculty and Librarians, see the Association of Academic and Research Libraries (ACRL) Scholarly Communication Toolkit at the American Library Association website.
- Book authors will find this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education very useful when signing book publishing contracts: "Reading the Fine Print" by Deborah Gerhardt, in the Chronicle of Higher Education, March 22, 2007. For a sample author's contract amendment that covers all kinds of materials, including books, see OhioLINK Library Community Recommendations on Retention of Intellectual Property Rights for Works Produced by Ohio Faculty and Students.
- Use SHERPA (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access) to find publishers' archiving policies and copyright contracts, archiving mandates from different funding agencies, and lists of repositories. SHERPA offers these resources and more:
* RoMEO Publishers' Archiving and Copyright Policies
* JULIET Research Funders Archiving Mandates and Guidelines
* OpenDOAR worldwide Directory of Open Access Repositories
* Guidance on depositing material; copyright; and a guide to self archiving
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Key People to Contact:
Jeffrey Horrell, Dean of the Library
Elizabeth Kirk , Associate Librarian for Information Resources
Barbara DeFelice, Director, Digital Resources Program
James Fries, Head, Feldberg Business and Engineering Library
Bill Garrity, Director of the Biomedical Libraries
The subject specialist and liaison librarians can also help with specific questions, so use this list to locate a subject librarian in your field:
Subject Specialists and Liaison Librarians List
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