Information for SBU authors Why retain rights? Many publishers create significant barriers for authors who want to reuse or share their work, and for access to that work by others. Negotiating changes to standard publisher agreements can help authors avoid…
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Responsible Use of Electronic Resources
Stony Brook University Libraries contracts with a variety of vendors and publishers to provide users with thousands of electronic resources (research databases, eJournals, abstracts, full text, etc.) costing millions of dollars per year. In addition to paying for these resources, the…
Copyright
What is copyright? A copyright grants to its owner the right to control an intellectual or artistic creation, including the right to profit from others using the work in specific ways without permission or from the sale and performance of…
