Copyright & publishing

Copyright FAQ
Using copyrighted content
Fair use, license agreements, using images & figures, and how to cite.
Electronic course reserves guide
Fair use and open resources for making your content available on a course site.
Retaining rights when you get published
Why and how to hold onto rights when signing publishing agreements
Amend a publishing agreement
Addenda that incorporate MIT’s OA policy or federal public access policies into an author agreement.
Theses & copyright
Using others’ and your own published work in your thesis & publisher policies related to theses.

MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts
Reusing figures from major publishers
Libraries’ agreements with several publishers allow MIT authors to reuse content in their own work.
Open access publishing support
Find support for open access publishing, including the OA fund.
MIT-Springer rights agreement
Springer & the MIT Libraries have an innovative agreement to make Springer papers more openly available.