Graham Resource Center Research Guide

Via the ARL, a concise history of copyright law in the United States, dating from the advent of the printing press in England to the present. This history focuses on successive individual court cases, working papers, and legislation.

A simple guide created by UC Berkeley, explaining the advantages of managing one's own intellectual property rights. This covers adding an addendum to any author's contracts, and links to other resources.

Based at the Univeristy of Nottingham, RoMEO summarizes publishers’ conditions and categorizes publishers by colours, indicating level of author rights. You can also use use RoMEO to find out if your publishers’ copyright rules allow you to deposit in
your institutional repository.

A clear, simple tool for assessing whether works are still under copyright.