Medical Publishing

When you create a work, such as a research article, you hold its copyright. However, many publishers require that you sign over your copyright in the author agreement that you sign upon acceptance.

It is important to read your author agreement carefully, so that you know whether you will be able to:

• Post your work on your own web site or share your work with colleagues
• Add your work to an institutional or government repository
• Publish work that was initially shared as a preprint
• Post an author manuscript or other pre-publication copy

• Dartmouth Publisher Agreements List of publishers that Dartmouth Libraries has an active publishing agreement with to reduce or cover the costs of article processing fees (APCs) that make articles publicly available.
• NIH Public Access Policy Guide provides information about the NIH Public Access Policy, which will impact the copyright terms that you are able to agree to for NIH-funded research.
• Open Policy Finder finds journal, publisher, and funder open access policies.
• Scholarly Communication, Copyright, and Publishing Resources, including individual appointments with a dedicated librarian, about copyright, fair use, intellectual property, publishing, and open educational resources.