Video by SPARC, available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

Negotiate changes to these standard agreements if you want the right to:

• Widely disseminate your published work by posting it on your website
• Reuse or allow others to reuse parts of your published work in other formats
• Make your work available to those who lack access to the journal in which it appears
• Prohibit or allow commercial use of your work
• Preserve your published work in a digital repository
• Use your published work in public lectures and at conferences
• Allow others to reuse and modify your work

Alternatives to standard agreements:

• Use an author addendum.
• Publish in Open Access.
• Use a Creative Commons license.

• A short guide to negotiating copyright [PDF, 221 KB]
  From uOttawa library.
• SPARC Canadian Author’s Addendum [PDF, 233 KB]
  Learn how the law allows you to transfer copyright while retaining rights for yourself and others.
• Publish in Open Access
• Creative Commons license tool
  Maintain your copyright by attaching a Creative Commons License to your work.
• CAUT intellectual property resources
  From the Canadian Association of University Teachers.
• CARL resources for authors
  From the Canadian Association of Research Libraries.
• uOttawa Copyright
  Learn more about the use of copyright-protected materials.