“Be a responsible steward of your intellectual property. Retain vital rights for you and your readers while authorizing publishing activities that benefit everyone by making scholarship more widely available.”
— Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
Bethel's Faculty Handbook has an appendix, General Policy on Intellectual Property (Bethel Community Only), that describes how ownership of content created by Faculty is determined at Bethel. It was approved by the Teaching and Learning Technology Roundtable and the Faculty Personnel Policies Committee in 2001.
Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving
Publishers policy statements indicate what level of open access they allow under their standard agreement.
SPARK is Bethel University's Institutional Repository. We advocate for all faculty to self-archive their works in SPARK. spark@bethel.edu
An open access policy should specify what level of archiving is acceptable.
| Journal Color | Archiving policy |
| green | can archive pre-print and post-print or publisher's version/PDF |
| blue | can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing) or publisher's version/PDF |
| yellow | can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing) |
| white | archiving not formally supported |
What is a pre-print?
It is the author's initial version of an article submitted to a publication before it has been reviewed.
Public Library of Science PLOS explains how they handle pre-prints.
There are two types of Open Access journals; Green and Gold.
Green journals give authors permission to self-archive their work on a personal website or institutional repository.
List of journals that allow author archiving
Gold journals provide access to peer-reviewed articles without charging the reader and make up approximately 30% of the scholarly literature. The business model varies, but the majority do not charge publication fees.
Gold Journal Examples
SHERPA / ROMEO is a resource listing open access policies of publishers and copyright transfer agreements.
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