Authors

So you are a writer, but how can you both retain copyright of your original research and share your work?

Look into Author Rights before you agree to publish. This is a legal instrument that modifies the publisher’s agreement and allows you to keep key rights to your articles. The Author Addendum is a free resource developed by SPARC in partnership with Creative Commons and Science Commons, established non-profit organizations that offer a range of copyright options for many different creative endeavors.

Use the Addendum Engine to help you generate a PDF form that you can attach to a journal publisher’s copyright agreement to ensure that you retain certain rights.

Publisher Copyright Policies & self-archiving

Powerful tool for seeking information regarding the copyright & self-archiving policies for academic journals.

Check out the DOAJ - or Directory of Open Access Journals.

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

So you write novels?

How to Publish eBook

Excellent resources for publishing for authors.

If you write everything from poetry to books about astrophysics research - you can look into a Creative Commons license to retain rights while sharing your work.