Authors' Rights

Most academics engage in both teaching and research.  Both are intimately tied to communications, and in particular to the patterns of scholarly communications that have developed over the past century.  We're all familiar with the process of faculty authors producing research articles, peer-reviewed journals vetting the scholarship and distributing it, and libraries organizing, archiving, and making it available to other scholars and students as the foundation on which new knowledge is built.

We can help you!

For UO authors

• Deposit your work in Scholars' Bank, the UO's institutional repository, and guarantee that it will be accessible to a world-wide readership
• Find Open Access journals -- consider publishing in an OA journal and take advantage of many benefits
• Get consulting assistance on your publishing questions:
  • Avoid plagiarism and copyright infingement
  • Get permission to quote copyrighted works
  • Understand publishers' copyright transfer agreements
  • Use an Author's Addendum to protect your rights when you transfer copyright to a publisher
  • Comply with NIH Public Access Policy (for authors funded through NIH grants)
  • Comply with NSF data management rules and other funder mandates for public access to data

For UO editors and journal publishers

• Get information about the new UO Libraries e-journal publishing service
• Plan and edit a new electronic journal (information for editors)

For students

• Grad students: Submit your doctoral dissertation electronically, and it will be automatically deposited in Scholars' Bank, available open access to the world
• Undergraduates: Submit your work to the Oregon Undergraduate Research Journal

Learn more

• Learn about Open Access publishing at the UO 
• View online videos about Scholarly Communications and Open Access
• Find further readings about Scholarly Communications more generally