For more information on this topic see the Fair Use & Fair Use Analysis Tool pages on the UNM Copyright Guide.
Please visit the SPARC author rights resource page for more information and resources on how you can retain your rights and publish in OA journals.
Also, take a look at the Creative Commons page to explore their alternative take on copyright by empowering you to safely and efficiently share what you create.
(CC BY) This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.
(CC BY-SA) This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use.
(CC BY-ND) This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you. This means no edits or changes to the original work.
(CC BY-NC) This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
(CC BY-NC-SA) This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
(CC BY-NC-ND) This license is the most restrictive of the six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.
Adapted from About CC Licenses, which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
A publisher's copyright policy will outline what sorts of archiving is allowed. Many publishers allow the archiving or submittal of pre-prints and/or post-prints of articles to repositories.
WITH A SPARC AUTHOR ADDENDUM The form below can be attached to and submitted with any publisher agreement. Feel free to use this form when you are submitting to a non-OA journal.
WITH A CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE License your own work through Creative Commons and make your own choices about attribution, share alike, commercial uses, and derivative works.
BY PUBLISHING IN AN OA JOURNAL Explore the Directory of Open Access Journals to find a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that supports your research.
BY SELF ARCHIVING Check out the SHERPA/RoMEO database to find out whether or not your favorite publications allow the archiving or a post-print or pre-print of your article to an institutional or discipline repository.