the ieee ipr office authors' rights tutorial part of the ieee ipr tutorial series
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The IEEE IPR Office Authors' Rights TutorialPart of the IEEE IPR Tutorial Series
This tutorial will explain how IEEE provides authors with valuable copyright protection, while still
allowing them to retain important rights to reuse and distribute their work.
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Copyright
Copyright is one of a group of intellectual property rights (or laws) that are intended to protect the interests of authors, or copyright owners.
Copyright
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Protect the work from copyright infringement
Provide a central location for requests to reuse the work
Maintain an archival copy of the work for future reference
In return for an author’s copyright transfer, IEEE will:
CopyrightTransfer
In addition to the benefits of copyright protection, IEEE authors and their employers retain many important rights to their work.
One of the more important rights is the freedom for authors to archive and share their own work. This practice is called
Copyright Transfer
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Self-Archiving
Self-Archiving
Self-Archiving
Self-Archiving
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Self-archiving is a term used to describe authors posting their articles on their personal web sites and/or on their employers’ web sites.
Self-archiving may be done in a number of different ways.
IEEE authors are free to post their pre-print and post-print IEEE-copyrighted work on their own web page.
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Authors can also post their IEEE copyrighted work on their employer’s web page or institutional repository.
Self-Archiving
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IEEE authors whose work has been funded by an NIH grant are encouraged by IEEE to post their papers on PubMed Central (PMC).
IEEE will supply authors with the final versions of their papers, which authors may then submit directly to PMC.
Self-Archiving
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This author-friendly self-archiving policy has earned IEEE a positive “green” publisher ranking from SHERPA/RoMEO, a site that monitors publishers’ author-archiving policies.
Self-Archiving
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Works posted online need to display an IEEE copyright notice, as well as information for readers about reusing the paper.
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Self-archiving policies vary from publisher to publisher. It is a complex issue that can be worrisome for many authors. The IEEE IPR Office is available to provide support to authors who may have questions about IEEE’s self-archiving policy.
Self-Archiving
Other Retained Rights
Other Retained Rights
IEEE copyright policy addresses these concerns by extending other important retained rights to authors.
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While self-archiving is an important retained right for many authors, there may be other concerns that authors have about reusing their published work.
Other Retained Rights
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Authors are free to reproduce their work for their own use, or for their companies’ use. This includes reusing extracts from the work, or creating derivative works.
Authors also retain rights to any processes, procedures, or articles of manufacture that are described in their works.
Other Retained Rights
These rights include:
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A list of authors’ retained rights can be found on the IEEE Copyright Form.
Scholarly Publishing
Consistent with this commitment, IEEE liberally grants to its authors the right to post their own content for free public access on the author's own web site or their employer's institutional repository.
Scholarly Publishing
emphasize IEEE’s commitment to provide the world with convenient, timely, and affordable access to scholarly and professional publications and to wide dissemination of research results.
http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/rights/PublishingPrinciples.html
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Read more about IEEE’s Principles of Scholarly Publishing at
IEEE’s Principles of Scholarly Publishing
Scholarly PublishingAdditional InformationWeb sites with additional information
about authors’ rights.
SHERPA (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access) provides information about publisher copyright and author archiving policies.
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/index.html
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http://www.authorsguild.org/
The Author’s Guild is an organization that promotes effective copyright, fair contracts, and free expression for published writers.
The IEEE IPR Office staff is available to answer any questions you may have about your rights as an IEEE author, or how you may reuse your IEEE
copyrighted work:
IEEE IPR Officewww.ieee.org/copyrights
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Additional Information
For other tutorials on IPR-related topics, such as:
• Trademarks• Patents• Plagiarism• Copyright
please visit the IEEE IPR Office web site at
http://www.ieee.org/copyrights/tutorials
The IPR Tutorial Series
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Copyright © 2009 IEEE
This concludes the IEEE IPR Office Authors’ Rights Tutorial.
We hope it helped to provide a better understanding of the rights
retained by IEEE authors.
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