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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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retaining your rights to self archive, made easy

do you know how wickedly easy it is to retain your rights as an author, in order to self archive articles you have submitted for publication? i set special time aside today in order to buckle down and figure it … Continue reading

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why lippincott williams & wilkins’s customer service is awesome

we’ve got a few books in our collection that have cds or dvds tucked in the back. we’ll leave them there to be checked out with the book, if the license agreement permits it. so one of our books got … Continue reading

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