Making your manuscripts available online can raise copyright and intellectual property rights (IPR) questions. Rest assured that roar staff always check copyright permissions prior to deposit and will liaise with publishers to ascertain permissions on behalf of UEL authors. We will never make anything available which contravenes copyright agreements.
As an author however you may wish to investigate and negotiate copyright and Intellectual Property issues with your publisher yourself. Authors who choose to deposit work in roar themselves will also need to check their own copyright permissions. Here's how:
1) Refer to your own agreement
As an author you will be asked to sign a copyright transfer agreement or a license to publish by your publisher. This indicates the rights the publisher claims over your work including reproduction and sharing of the final published article.
If you have not kept your copyright agreement or have not yet signed one and wish to investigate a publishers’ current guidelines consult the SHERPA/RoMEO site which summarises these policies and links to the relevant sections of publisher websites.
roar encourages you to retain your copyright in the final published version whenever possible. Authors can often negotiate the right to self-archive work in an Open Access repository with their publisher and a number of organisations have been working on developing model licences which authors are free to use and adapt. Examples of model licences to publish:
The University of East London has an Intellectual Property policy to guide staff and students. In summary, the university owns all Intellectual Property generated by staff in the course of their employment (see section 2.1) but waives its rights with regards to ownership of copyright in scholarly work (see section 2.4 & 2.5). Therefore you and your co-authors own the copyright of your work, unless you have signed-it over to a publisher or other party.
Partnering on copyright – a guide to copyright and open access from JISC /SURF
Open Access for authors – a guide from the SHERPA project
For more information regarding copyright and Intellectual Property within roar please contact us directly or refer to our FAQ
Please note: This website can only provide guidelines and should not be relied on for legal advice.
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