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Dissertations in ScholarlyCommons
http://repository.upenn.edu
What Putting Dissertations in ScholarlyCommons Will Do:
- Allow you to publicize their work more easily.
- Allow interested researchers to access your work more easily
- Make your work easily accessible through Google and Google Scholar
- Preserve your dissertation in digital form
- Give your dissertation a stable URL that you can link to
- Make your dissertation full-text searchable
- Allow you to receive reports of how many downloads his/her work received
- Protect your work from plagiarism by making it easier to detect
- Give you more control over presentation of their work
What Putting Dissertations in Scholarly Commons Will Not Do:
- Prohibit you from publishing dissertations elsewhere
- Take away your copyright or other proprietary rights of the author
- Prohibit you from placing a limited embargo on their work
For more information:
Contact ScholarlyCommons (215-573-4207 or repository@upenn.edu).
Go to the Submission FAQ.
Consult the following links:
University Copyright Websites
Columbia - http://www.copyright.columbia.edu/
Stanford - http://fairuse.stanford.edu/index.html
Cornell - http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/
Michigan - http://copyright.umich.edu/
IUPUI - http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/
Useful copyright resources
U.S. Copyright Office – http://copyright.gov
WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) - http://www.wipo.int/portal/index.html.en
SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) - http://www.arl.org/sparc/
JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee -UK Perspective)- http://copyrighttoolbox.surf.nl/copyrighttoolbox/
FACE (Copyright Education) - http://www.csusa.org/face/
Copyright Tools
Creative Commons - http://creativecommons.org/
SHERPA/Romeo - http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
Copyright Clearance Center - http://www.copyright.com/
