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Addendum, not Amendment

In revising the file for my Amendment to Publication Agreement I decided to change the title to be an addendum rather than an amendment. An “amendment” suggests to me that the terms of an already-executed agreement are changed as a … Continue reading

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Scholar’s Copyright Addendum Engine

how cool is that? simple, direct, and clear. i like their clause 5, which states that if the publisher doesn’t return a countersigned copy and publishes the work it means that they agree to the terms in the addendum. now … Continue reading

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my first amendment to publication agreement

i got a chapter accepted for publication (yay!) and am preparing the packet of materials to send to the editors, including the publication agreement.  i will be attaching the amendment to the publication agreement that i made.  a particularly disagreeable … Continue reading

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NISO’s Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU) Working Group

the SERU working group has put together a draft of best practices (titled SERU Framework–version 0.3); it is posted on their website at http://www.niso.org/committees/SERU/index.html.  this draft provides a clear outline of what the issues are in communications between libraries and … Continue reading

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publish your work in the past

a researcher had her work accepted for publication in 2006 in a prestigious journal, but instead of it being published in a 2006 issue it was published in a 2005 issue.  the 2005 issue was published in 2006.  in this … Continue reading

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retaining my rights as an author: amendment to publication agreement

I took some of the language and organization from MIT’s author amendment and UIUC’s draft amendment, stripped out the institution-specific jargon, and created my own Author’s Amendment to Publication Agreement. Feel free to use it for yourself. Leave a comment … Continue reading

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