Copyright, Publication and 许可

何谓版权?

  • Copyright is the legal protection given to authors of various kinds of works and defines the extent of the rights of ownership held by authors.
  • Copyright exists for authors as soon as the work is created in a fixed form. Authors do not need to do anything else for the copyright protection to take effect. It exists whether or not authors declare the copyright, 发表作品, or register the copyright with the U.S. 版权办公室.

All questions about copyright can be answered by visiting the Mabee Library. In person, ask for Farhad Moshiri, or click on this link: 也许是图书馆版权常见问题解答.

Also, view this information page from the U.S. 版权办公室:
一般版权

浏览或下载本小册子:
版权的基本知识

This article by Kenneth Crews is a terrific resource for academic writers of any kind:
Copyright and Your Dissertation or Thesis: Ownership, Fair Use, and Your Rights and Responsibilities

你应该注册你的版权吗?

Registering your copyright is optional, but doing so provides an official record of your ownership. This record is valuable in the event of a dispute about your work or any portion of your work. You may register the copyright for your work directly with the U.S. 版权局透过此连结 http://copyright.gov/registration/ . The cost for registering copyright is available in this brochure, 版权局费用. Dissertation writers have the option of registering their copyright through ProQuest, which adds a handling and processing charge to the registration fee.

Publication, Publication Agreements, and 许可 Your Work

Theses, doctoral projects, and dissertations are published, or "deposited," into 在阅览室, UIW's Open Access institutional repository of scholarly work. Dissertations must also be deposited into the 论文出版 数据库. Both 数据库s allow students to choose if the work will be made available immediately or will have an embargo for a set period of time. Scroll down the page to read about embargoes.

Publication Agreements and 许可 Your Work

将作品存入雅典娜神庙. 在阅览室 is an Open Access repository. Open Access means that anyone can read and download your work for free. The publication agreement you sign when you deposit your work gives permission to 在阅览室 to make your work available, describes your rights and responsibilities, and the rights and responsibilities of 在阅览室. You retain ownership of the copyright. You should consider including a Creative Commons attribution license with your ETD. 本许可证规定, although you are allowing free public access to your work, you are defining how the work may be used. There are no fees involved with publishing student work into 在阅览室.

Depositing Dissertations in the ProQuest Database. ProQuest offers two kinds of publication agreements, which are a) no-fee Traditional Publishing or b) Open Access Publishing, 为此公司要收费. With either option you retain ownership of the copyright. 传统出版, ProQuest出售您作品的副本, with 10% of the royalties delivered to you after $25 worth of sales. Open Access publishing means that ProQuest places no restrictions on who can access your work--but because ProQuest does not charge for access to your work you pay a fee up-front to defray the cost of publishing.

许可

Open Access Publishing places no restrictions on access to your work, although you may choose to define certain limitations on use of your work through a 知识共享许可. Select a button below to read about Open Access Publishing and using Creative Commons to license your work.

开放获取资讯

Go here to read a three-part series on Open Access and dissertation embargoes:
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/11861 

This article from College and Research Libraries journal presents research on the question of open access and electronic theses and dissertations: http://doi.org/10.5860/crl-356

访问 Oasis (Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook)  http://www.oasis-open.org/ for more information about open access.

禁运

在阅览室 and ProQuest allow students to request an embargo, 或延迟, on the publication or dissemination of their work. 禁运 can be requested for periods of six months, one year, or two years. Students must submit separate requests for embargoes to 在阅览室 and to ProQuest.

其他版权资源

Check out the links below for more information on copyright.