Glossary of Terms
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Author AddendumA legal instrument that modifies the publisher's agreement and allows you to keep key rights to your articles. | |
Author RightsA bundle of rights which are part of copyright law, such as right to share, use, reuse, modify, perform and remix. | |
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CopyrightThe exclusive and assignable legal right, given to the originator or creator or author for a fixed number of years, to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material. | |
Copyright Transfer AgreementAn agreement between authors and publishers, where authors transfer some exclusive rights to publishers. | |
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EprintsJointly, post-prints and preprints are called eprints. | |
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Indexing & Abstracting ServiceIt is a service that provides shortening or summarizing of documents and assigning of descriptors for referencing documents. | |
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Licence to PublishAn exclusive right authors grant to publishers. | |
LicenseA permission or authorization that ensures licensors gets the credit for their work. | |
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Post-PrintA digital draft of a journal article after it has been peer reviewed. | |
PreprintA draft version of a scientific paper that has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. | |
Primary SourcesThey provide first-hand testimony or direct evidence concerning a topic under investigation. They are created by witnesses or recorders who experienced the events or conditions being documented. | |
Publisher’s VersionThe official version in PDF with unaltered page layout and pagination. | |
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Scholarly JournalIt is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Scholarly journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research. | |
Self-ArchivingAn act of depositing a free copy of a digital document on the World Wide Web in order to provide open access to it. | |