Developing Authorship and Copyright Ownership Policies

Authorship represents a new area of policy-related work within higher education research administration, funding agencies, and scholarly journal publishing. This book offers the unique aspect of combining details on copyright ownership as well as authorship into a single volume on best practices for administrators, journal publishers, research managers, and policy drafters within and outside of higher education. Discover more about the definition of ?author??from data gatherer to writer?to inform policy development while understanding the interconnected relationships between authorship, copyright ownership, and scholarly communication. This book will also demonstrate how to develop inclusive and equitable authorship policies that reflect the range of diversity within the research endeavor and scholarly publishing.