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Copyright and Online Publishing

Creative Commons

Creative Commons helps you publish your work online while letting others know exactly what they can and can’t do with your work. When you choose a license, Creative Commons provides you with tools and tutorials that let you add license information to your own site, or to one of several free hosting services that have incorporated Creative Commons.
http://creativecommons.org/license/
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7023.pdf
(Fact sheet on Creative Commons)

The Changing Landscape of Online Publishing

Faster and wider sharing of journal articles, research data, simulations, syntheses, analyses, and other findings fuels the advance of knowledge. It’s a two-way street — sharing research benefits you and others.

The Create Change website will help you understand the changing landscape of online publishing and how it affects you and your research. It also offers practical ways to look out for your own interests as a researcher.
http://www.createchange.org/index.html

Scholarly Publishing Electronic Bibliography

This site is helpful for gaining an understanding of scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. Compiled by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html

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