Scholarly Communications: Getting Started

The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) is a great source of information on author's rights, including this Author's Addendum. This addendum is a legal instrument that modifies the publisher's agreement and allows authors to keep key rights.

For example: To secure sufficient rights to deposit the work in the TXST Digital Collections Repository and to reuse your own work, authors could modify the language of the standard publishing agreement as follows:

• "Notwithstanding the above language, I reserve the right to use this work in my teaching and research, for my colleagues at the Texas State University to use this work in their teaching and research, and I also reserve the right to place an electronic copy of this work on a publicly accessible website."

For information or questions, contact Stephanie Towery (Copyright Officer): copyrightoffice@txstate.edu