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Understanding open access in the academic environment: A guide for authors
Pappalardo, Kylie Fitzgerald, Brian Fitzgerald, Anne Kiel-Chisholm, Scott Georgiades, Jenny Austin, Anthony
Pappalardo, Kylie
Fitzgerald, Brian
Fitzgerald, Anne
Kiel-Chisholm, Scott
Georgiades, Jenny
Austin, Anthony
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Abstract
The OAK Law Project aims to facilitate seamless access to knowledge and improve social, economic and cultural outcomes. This guide aims to provide practical guidance for academic authors interested in making their work more openly accessible to readers and other researchers. The guide provides authors with an overview of the concept of and rationale for open access to research outputs and how they may be involved in its implementation and with what effect. In doing so it considers the central role of copyright law and publishing agreements in structuring an open access framework as well as the increasing involvement of funders and academic institutions. The guide also explains different methods available to authors for making their outputs openly accessible, such as publishing in an open access journal or depositing work into an open access repository. Importantly, the guide addresses how open access goals can affect an author’s relationship with their commercial publisher and provides guidance on how to negotiate a proper allocation of copyright interests between an author and publisher. A Copyright Toolkit is provided to further assist authors in managing their copyright.
Keywords
open access, repository, digital repository, institutional repository, OAK Law Project, copyright, publisher, academic author, copyright management, law, moral rights, open access journals, peer review, citation studies, DOAJ, NIH, Harvard, QUT, funding bodies, Creative Commons, licences, author addendum, Licence to Publish, publishing agreement, Copyright Toolkit
Date
2008
Type
Book
Journal
Book
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Issue
Page Range
1-145
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ACU Department
Collections
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DOI
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Event URL
Open Access Status
Open access
License
File Access
Open
Notes
This work is licensed under an Australian Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au)