To learn more about posting articles, research, working papers, and other publications to your UMass Boston Author Page, consult these Frequently Asked Questions.
For additional information, please contact the ScholarWorks Support Team.
Creating Change in Scholarly Communication
SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) recently retooled and republished its Create Change resource. The site has been updated to provide faculty with current information, perspectives, and tools that will enable them to play an active role in advancing scholarly information exchange in the networked environment. The new Create Change website is based around the idea that the ways faculty share and use academic research results are changing rapidly and irreversibly. By posing the question, “Shouldn’t the way we share research be as advanced as the Internet?” the site outlines how faster and wider sharing of journal articles, research data, simulations, syntheses, analyses, and other findings fuels the advance of knowledge. It also offers practical ways faculty can look out for their own interests as researchers.
Authors Rights and SPARC Author Addendum
SPARC’s Author Rights educational initiative provides information and resources for faculty about the SPARC Author Addendum, a legal form that enables authors of journal articles to modify publishers’ copyright transfer agreements to allow authors to keep key rights to their articles.
You can view the SPARC Author Addendum in PDF or in Word. Attach this addendum to the publisher agreement that you sign just before a new article is to be published.
Suggested Steps for Acquiring Permission to Add Materials to ScholarWorks
Licensing Your Copyrighted Work
An easy way to protect and share your copyrighted work is through a Creative Commons license. Learn more about Creative Commons here.