Monday, January 16, 2012

Copyright and Open Access

[Links updated 2018]

Never sign away the copyright of your own writings.  Instead, grant the publisher a license that gives them what they want, and assigns to you the rights that you want.  Here are such licenses, in several languages:
For background on the Zwolle principles, see here:
and see also the SURF initiative, on Copyright Management for Scholarship:

[Added 2018:]