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ALSP copy right
Advice from "Create Change" (from ARL, ACRL, SPARC) on how authors can
retain copyright to their works.
http://www.createchange.org/faculty/issues/putting.html#p5c
Advice from the UK Author Licensing and Collecting Society. See especially
the section called "Assign or License"?
http://www.alcs.co.uk/pages/main_fs.asp?hub=copy
North Carolina State University's page of advice to NCSU faculty on how to
negotiate with publishers to retain copyright.
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/language.html
Wilfrid Hodges' checklist of practical advice on what contract terms to
request, and accept, from a publisher (approved by the International
Mathematical Union). Don't be deceived by the fact that Hodges addresses
his advice only to mathematicians; it applies to all academic authors.
http://www.maths.qmw.ac.uk/~wilfrid/copyrightdoc.pdf
Derek Rowntree's 1999 article on his unavailing attempt to retain copyright
in negotiations with a large, inflexible publisher, with some advice for
authors who try to do the same.
http://iet.open.ac.uk/pp/D.G.F.Rowntree/article_copyright.htm
Ann Okerson's 1998 article recommending that researchers funded by the US
government retain copyright to their articles and license many kinds of
non-exclusive use to others. More a position paper than practical advice
to authors, but an influential position paper.
http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/POLICYF.HTM
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Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, 47374
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