In order for scholarly communication to be as effective as possible, authors need to understand their rights under copyright, and ensure that they retain the rights they need in order to make their research as useful and accessible as possible.
CARL has developed a suite of tools to help researchers understand and retain their rights.
CARL’s Guide to Author Rights
This guide explains to researchers what they should consider during each step of their research and publication in order to retain the rights they will need later on in order to reuse and share their works.
CARL’s Guide to Using the SPARC Canadian Addendum
This simple guide explains how to make use of the SPARC Canadian Addendum when negotiating a publishing license for a journal article or book chapter.
Additional Resources
CARL recommends the following additional resources:
- Think. Check. Submit. – guide to assessing and selecting journals for submission of manuscripts
- How to Assess a Journal – CARL one-page guide for assessing journals and avoiding those that are illegitimate or otherwise undesirable
- Managing Authors’ Rights (Authors Alliance)
- SHERPA/RoMEO – database of publisher self-archiving policies
