Author's Rights, Tout de Suite, the latest Digital Scholarship publication, is designed to give journal article authors a quick introduction to key aspects of author's rights and to foster further exploration of this topic through liberal use of relevant references to online documents and links to pertinent Web sites.
It is under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License, and it can be freely used for any noncommercial purpose, including derivative works, in accordance with the license.
The prior publication in the Tout de Suite series, Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite, is also available.
Who protects authors against “ideas piracy� we have recently observed that soon after rejection of certain submissions similar articles were published. As long as the identity of reviewers is blind to authors, the possibility of using worthy proposals ideas can not be totally excluded, and if this happens what will an overseas author do?