As a researcher it is important that you understand copyright and how it affects your research impact. When you publish, depending on the publisher's policy, you may have to sign the copyright over to the publisher. This will affect whether you can copy the work, for students for example, or whether you can deposit in a open access repository.
In your own research you must adhere to good copyright practice.
What rights you transfer to the publisher will be agreed by the contract you make with them. The publisher will usually specify what rights are being transferred from you to them. You should understand that it is not an all or nothing situation. The transfer will allow you to retain some rights for redistribution of your work, including in some instances making it available in open access by either full open access or uploading it into a repository. For more information on the benefits of Open Access click here. Make sure to check to see what each individual publisher agreement allows.
Please contact the Library for advice on what you can deposit in STÓR - DkIT's Open Access Research Repository .
Copyright law applies to all authors. However there is some more caveats when it comes to researchers.
For instance figures can be used under the ICLA license as long as they are not significant overall but highly significant to the passages you are trying to copy. If is under excluded works you will need to get permission. Depending on your contact with publisher you may also need to do this for your own previous work because, if you signed over the copyright, you are no longer the copyright holder. Keep this in mind when entering into publishing contracts.
A basic introduction to copyright and its relation to the work of researchers.
