Get Published, Task 5: Negotiate Your Author Rights

When your submission is accepted for publication, there are two things to do right away: 1) Celebrate! 2) Negotiate your rights as the author.  Task 5 will help you work with your publisher to retain your author rights. The guide will explain why this is important and will provide specific instructions (and a sample form) for adding a copyright addendum to your contract.

http://researchguides.wcu.edu/getpublished/authorrights

Get Published, Task Three: Avoid "Predatory" Publishers

The third task in Hunter Library's scholarly publishing series  will help you identify and avoid so-called "predatory" or "bad faith" publishers.  http://researchguides.wcu.edu/getpublished/avoidpredatorypublishers http://researchguides.wcu.edu/getpublished/avoidpredatorypublishers