Rights and Permissions for Your Own Work

Learn more about your rights as an author.

SPARC

This organization helps authors amend publishing agreements. It takes only a few minutes to create an addendum. The addendum helps authors maintain greater control over their intellectual property and insures they can post their own work on a personal or institutional website - making work more widely accessible and potentially increasing citation factors.

SHERPA RoMEO

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

Harry Ransom Center

A database of copyright contacts for writers, artists, and prominent people in other creative fields.