SHERPA/RoMEO publisher copyright policies search engine
Knowing a publisher’s copyright policy is essential to making informed choices in the publication process, particularly for authors who wish to ensure they have the rights needed to ensure their work’s...
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by Pamela Samuelson and Molly Van Houweling, Authors Alliance Co-Founders. Last updated Oct. 20, 2014. What is “open access”? Who is adopting open access? Is this just for academics? What are the...
View ArticleLydia Loren on Semaphore Press
Authors Alliance Founding Member Lydia Loren from Lewis and Clark Law School explains how her publishing company, Semaphore Press, is working to produce affordable, high-quality casebooks for use in...
View ArticleChristopher Sprigman on Pricing to Be Read
Authors Alliance founding member Christopher Sprigman, a law professor at NYU, discusses how he negotiated for a lower price for his book, The Knockoff Economy, and why he felt that the price was...
View ArticleCreative Commons License Picker
Creative Commons licenses come in various flavors, but each provide for at least two key things: the ability for others to make copies of the work, and the requirement that any subsequent copies or...
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Caged Masterpieces: Chris Hoofnagle Reviews Arthur Leff’s Swindling and Selling
Imagine yourself tracking down a citation, constructing a syllabus, pursuing an intriguing research topic, or reading up on a favorite subject. You’ve organized your materials, refined your ideas, and...
View ArticleWhat will you do after recovering your rights? Stephen Sugarman’s success story
Authors Alliance is encouraging its members to consider reverting rights to their out-of-print or commercially dormant titles in order to see those works made more widely available. Stephen D....
View ArticleNew Resource: Adventures in Self-Republishing by Jeff Hecht
Authors Alliance member Jeff Hecht successfully regained the rights to a number of his books, and has subsequently re-published them himself. In his new guide, Adventures in Self-Republishing: How to...
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