Understanding Open Access in the Academic Environment: A Guide for Authors

[Stevan Harnad <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

>From the OAK Law Project, an OA Guide for Authors written by 
Kylie Pappalardo (with the assistance of Professor Brian 
Fitzgerald, Professor Anne Fitzgerald, Scott Kiel-Chisholm, Jenny 
Georgiades and Anthony Austin):

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00013935/01/Microsoft_Word_-%3Cu%3EFinal_Draft%3C/u%3E-_website.pdf

"Understanding Open Access in the Academic Environment: A Guide 
for Authors [by Kylie Pappalardo (with the assistance of 
Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Professor Anne Fitzgerald, Scott 
Kiel-Chisholm, Jenny Georgiades and Anthony Austin)] aims to 
provide practical guidance for academic authors interested in 
making their work more openly accessible to readers and other 
researchers. The guide provides authors with an overview of the 
concept of and rationale for open access to research outputs and 
how they may be involved in its implementation and with what 
effect. In doing so it considers the central role of copyright 
law and publishing agreements in structuring an open access 
framework as well as the increasing involvement of funders and 
academic institutions. The guide also explains different methods 
available to authors for making their outputs openly accessible, 
such as publishing in an open access journal or depositing work 
into an open access repository. Importantly, the guide addresses 
how open access goals can affect an author's relationship with 
their commercial publisher and provides guidance on how to 
negotiate a proper allocation of copyright interests between an 
author and publisher. A Copyright Toolkit is provided to further 
assist authors in managing their copyright."

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