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We will focus on two main aspects: the rights you preserve when you commercialize your work, and the rights that you provide for others when you do not. As Your rights explains, your copyright bundle is pretty big. For most academics, it may contain more than we actually need.

When you commercialize your works

When you commercialize your works by publishing them, you can reserve the right to publicly archive your work. Nearly all major publishers now provide the right to publicly archive by either policy or in their author contracts upon request. Policies are the easiest because they apply to all authors and they don't require that you do anything extra at the time you negotiate your contract. But if your publisher doesn't have a policy, or it doesn't go as far as you would like, you need only ask for the right to publicly archive. Your grant funding or institutional sources often provide resources specifically to cover archiving costs. More funders now require that any paper published from research they supported be publicly archived as a condition of the award of the grant. Others strongly recommend public archiving and the NIH even provides a repository and simple interface to make it easy (along with funding to cover costs, if any).

If you obtain the right to archive and follow through (check with your institution - it might do this for you), you have ensured that many more people will be able to view it. For more information about how this benefits you, your institution, and the public, read Open access options and resources.