Copyright Issues

Journal papers

The majority of publishers support the right of authors to make their own work available online. To check whether it will be possible to add your journal paper to the repository:

It may be helpful to read the copyright agreement you signed when you published your paper.
If you do not have a copy of the agreement or if the agreement does not address the question of self-archiving, you may find it helpful to check the RoMEO database. RoMEO summarises the permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement. RoMEO does not have information on all journal publishers but it is a good place to start
The publisher's own web site may give information on self-archiving permissions for authors.
We may have to embargo some work to fulfil publisher policies but deposit the work in any case - we will make it live as soon as the embargo expires and it will be good publicity for the work in the meantime.

Conference papers

These can often be deposited. If copyright has not been assigned elsewhere, you can deposit your own copy of the work. Otherwise, it may be necessary to contact the publisher of the proceedings.

Book chapters

If you have retained copyright, you should be able to deposit your own version of the work - though it is worth checking the terms and conditions of your publishing agreement. There is no equivalent to the RoMEO database for book publishers so it is difficult to generalise about book chapter archiving. The simplest approach is to send a standard permission email to your book publisher.

Theses/Dissertations/Student Investigations

Authors can submit a soft copy to HRD, CFTRI and a copy will be received in Library. The same will be deposited in ePrints@CFTRI.

Publishers, Copyright and Open Access

For more information on Publishers, copyright and self-arching, please visit the SHERPA/RoMEO service site, which provides a listing of publishers' copyright conditions as they relate to authors archiving their work on-line.

RoMEO Colours and Publisher's Archiving Policies

ROMEO colour	Publisher's 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