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Who owns the copyright in the scholarly articles I write?
You own your copyright, unless you sign it over to another person or entity.
Am I giving The Ohio State University Library or the Knowledge Bank my copyright?
No. Depositing your work in the Knowledge Bank requires only a license of your copyright. This license requests only those rights for deposit in the Knowledge bank that are necessary to "...reproduce“…reproduce, translate, and/or distribute the submission (including the abstract) as agreed upon, in print and electronic format and in any medium, including but not limited to audio or visual for the purposes of inclusion in the Knowledge Bank. You also agree that the Knowledge Bank may make and retain more than one copy for the purpose of preservation, security and backup."” (Click here to see the full license agreement.)
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An addendum is an additional section or form that you can add to your author's author’s agreement. This document will return some limited rights to you in your scholarly work (Use the OSUL addendum or CIC addendum).
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Yes, be sure to get permission for any of your uses of third party material in all forms of media which should take into account inclusion in an open access repository. If you are unable to attain permission for this use you may request a waiver or submit a version of the document without the third party material.
What happens if I do not opt out, but assign exclusive rights to a publisher anyway, mistakenly signing a
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publisher’s agreement that conflicts with the policy?
Please be sure to read any agreement before signing it. The OSUL license takes precedence, but you may ask for a waiver from the Director, or a designate, if you are unable to retain any republishing rights from the publisher.
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Be sure that there is no "click-through" agreement for online submission. That may actually be the author agreement. Again, review each document (digitally or in analog form) carefully. If there is truly no author agreement, in any form, which spells out copyright ownership and rights, then it is likely that you have retained your copyright and can therefore do whatever you wish with your material.
This is overwhelming. I am not sure that I will know what to look for in an
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author’s agreement.
Again, please be sure to read your agreement. For help looking for words or phrases please look at documents created at the Bernard Becker Medical Library at Washington University. Click here for key words and phrases to look for in an author's agreement (Look here for more expanded explanations).
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