Scholarly Copyright Information for Faculty


Copyright Office Basics - from the United States Copyright Office

Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States - informational chart from Cornell University


Creative Commons - "Share, Remix, Reuse - Legally"
- provides a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators


Digital Commons @ IWU - Institutional Repository


SHERPA - investigating issues in the future of scholarly communication and developing open-access institutional repositories in universities to facilitate the rapid and efficient worldwide dissemination of research.

  • SHERPA's RoMEO service allows users to retrieve a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement.

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