Scholarly Publishing

Provides publisher copyright policies for over one thousand publishers.

Taylor & Francis publishes more than 1,000 journals, and over 1,800 new books each year, with a backlist of over 20,000 titles.

Elsevier publishes ~2000 journals and nearly 20,000 books and major reference works.

This publishers' policy applies to all journals published by the Nature Publishing Group (NPG), including the Nature journals.

SAGE is an independent academic publisher of books, journals and electronic products in the humanities, social sciences, scientific, technical and medical fields. They publish more than 630 journals and over 700 books a year.

Springer is a leading scientific publisher in science, technology, medicine, business, transport and architecture. The Springer eBook Collection is expected to include more than 110,000 titles by the end of 2012. They publish more than 7,000 new book titles each year as well as publishing some 2,000 journals.

This site was developed by the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts in conjunction with the Program on Law & Technology at Columbia Law School. It includes sample contracts (both good and bad examples), sample clauses, and before and after contracts.

Article agreement adopted by journals based at Columbia University.

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