Congratulations! Your latest research has been accepted for publication in a journal, but before you sign the publisher's Copyright Transfer Agreement (CTA), are you retaining the necessary rights under copyright to use your work yourself? Let's make sure.
Your basic rights as an author include:
Questions that you might want to consider before signing a publisher agreement include:
This guide provides background information and tools necessary to retain the rights you need to reuse your work.
2008 ACRL, ARL, and SPARC author rights video.
This guide based on this one by Terry Owen of University of Maryland Libraries.