You're going to be published - congratulations! Did you know that you own the copyright on your work until you transfer copyright to a publisher? Did you know you need to retain rights in order to include an article or reuse a chart  in your dissertation or thesis or make your work openly available on the web? Come to this session and learn about what your rights as an author are and how to negotiate with publishers for the rights that you need to retain.

• Understand your rights as an author
• Negotiate with publishers to retain the rights you might need in the future

For more information, please visit:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/sc/services/scholarly_communications/index.html