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The Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine will help you generate a PDF form that you can attach to a journal publisher's copyright agreement to ensure that you retain certain rights.

Enter basic information about your article and generate a printable addendum to your publishing agreement in one easy step. Produced by Science Commons, the Scholar’s Copyright Addendum Engine features an updated version of the SPARC Author Addendum.

Develops tools and resources for expanding and enhancing open access (OA) to published research and data.

Share, Remix, Reuse — Legally. Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that increases sharing and improves collaboration.

Develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content.

PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.

Scholarly Publication - MIT Libraries

Use this site to find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement.

Caltech's Institutional Repositories for faculty approved research results and other content supporting the mission of the Institute.

Effective April 7, 2008, all NIH-funded researchers must comply with a new law requiring them to submit copies of peer-reviewed manuscripts accepted for publication and resulting from any NIH funding, to the National Library of Medicine's Pubmed Central.

(NIH Public Access Policy, 2008). Latest update: Mar. 19, 2009

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Includes links to submission tutorials & NIHMS grant database

Allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data.

Find internationally-published journals and rank them by price per article or citation.

Used for evaluating the influence of scholarly periodicals and for mapping the structure of academic research.