Copyright & publishing

Copyright

• Copyright FAQ
• Using copyrighted content
  Fair use, license agreements, using images & figures, and how to cite.
• Theses & copyright
  Using others’ and your own published work in your thesis & publisher policies related to theses.

Publishing

• 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.
• 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.
• MIT-Springer rights agreement
  Springer & the MIT Libraries have an innovative agreement to make Springer papers more openly available.
• Guide to getting published
• Independent book publishing for academics
• Elsevier fact sheet