Copyright issues

Open Access Deposit (self-archiving)

As author, when you sign an agreement with a publisher, you are very often signing and exclusive contract, transferring all the exploitation rights of your work to the publisher.

However, to retain part of the explotation rights, it is possible to use and addendum to the copyright contracts:

• Addendum model of the European Commission according to publishing agreements with publishers in order to compliance the open access mandate Horizon 2020 program
• Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine by Science Commons
• SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)

While some commercial publishers reserve for themselves the exclusive publishing and distribution rights of the articles, others reserve some rights but allowing to deposit the articles in institutional or subject non-profit repositories.

Every publisher has its own policy about open access repositories and there is no common rule by default. Look up for publishers’ policy in:

• Sherpa-Romeo - Publisher's copyright policies & self-archiving
• Dulcinea - Derechos de explotación y permisos para el auto-archivo de revistas científicas españolas
• Mir@bel: le site web que facilite l'accés aux revues

If you have doubtson Intellectual property, check in:

• Intellectual Property and Open Access Web

 
Creative Commons Licenses

Creative Commons (CC) licenses allow the authors for keep and manage the exploitation rights.
Check the CC licenses recommended by the UAB:

• Llicències Creative Commons  recomanades per la UAB (in catalan)