Licensing Copyright Tools
Publisher copyright agreement addendum engines, create your own license, publisher copyright & archiving policies

Licensing

• Creative Commons Licenses: provides a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, & educators
• Science Commons: Scholars Copyright Agreement
• SPARC Addendum Access-Reuse

Copyright

• Copyright Information Center (Cornell University)
• Copyright & Plagiarism Comprehensive Resources (Wallace Library) - resources, tutorials, articles
• Copyright Law & Graduate Research (for graduate students) ProQuest Information & Learning
• Copyright Spinner Online tool to help determine if libraries and archives can make reproductions of copyrighted materials with permission of the copyright holder
• Digital Copyright Slider Online tool to help determine the copyright status of published work based on the date of publication
• Faculty and Staff Guidelines for the Use of Copyrighted Materials at RIT
• Know Your Copy Rights (ACRL brochure)
• TurnitIn: FACULTY, have you tried the Turnitin.com plagiarism-detection service offered supported by the Publishing & Scholarship Support Center? Recognized worldwide as the standard in online plagiarism prevention, Turnitin helps educators and students take full advantage of the Internet's educational potential. Turnitin checks for originality and proper paraphrasing, citing, and the judicious use of quotes in student work, improves student writing and research skills, and saves valuable instructor time. This service tool can assist instructors in detecting and deterring plagiarism and having the ability to educate students on the proper use of intellectual property. Questions or account information is available at the Publishing & Scholarship Support Center (585) 475-7713 or contact Marianne Buehler at mabwml@rit.edu or (585) 475-5589.
• Sherpa Romeo: Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving for the academic research community

Open Access Mandates

• National Institute for Health Public Access Policy ensures public access to government-funded research
• Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies (ROARMAP)
• SCOAP³ Facilitates OA publishing by redirecting subscription fees (High Energy Physics)

Scholarly Communication Tools & Publications
Create open access publications: Journal, monograph, conference proceedings using open source software & general tools

• ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit An educational resource that provides information about scholarly publishing, journal economics, digital repositories, authors’ rights, and other issues
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): free, full text, ~4306 quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals
• Journal of Electronic Publishing Articles regarding innovative ideas, best practices, and leading-edge thinking about all aspects of publishing
• PapersInvited Database Tutorial Find scholarly communication opportunities for calls for papers/posters at conferences or for journal publications. Also lists student competitions and volunteer opportunities
  • PapersInvited
• Publish, Not Perish Collection of tutorials created by the University of Colorado which focuses on publishing in scholarly journals
• Public Knowledge Suite (Simon Fraser University): Open Journal Systems, Open Monograph Press, Open Conference System, Citation Manager – Public Knowledge Project
  • Article: “An interactive reading environment for online scholarly journals:  The Open Journal Systems Reading Tools” by Rick Kopak, and Chia-Ning Chiang, June 2009.
• Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) International alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system

Open Access Aggregator Tools for Research, Institutional Repository Content & Statistics

• Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR): search for repositories or repository content
• Networked Digital Library of  Theses & Dissertations (NDLTD) International organization promoting the preservation and electronic dissemination of theses/dissertations
  • ETD2009: Bridging the Knowledge Divide, The 12th International Symposium (2009) on Electronic Theses and Dissertations Conference Summary
• OAIster Union catalog of digital resources, harvests descriptive metadata (records) using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting):
• Open Access Tools listing Listservs, OA publications, blogs & wikis
• Ranking Web of World Repositories Quantitative methods with designed and applied indicators measure the scientific activity on the Web
• Registry of Open Access Repositories Specific data for ~1351 individual global repositories
• World Digital Library Promotes international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provides resources to educators, and contributes to scholarly research