Copyright and research in the humanities and social sciences

April 2008: The British Academy, jointly with the Publishers Association, have issued Joint Guidelines on Copyright and Academic Research - Guidelines for researchers and publishers in the Humanities and Social Sciences

This Report was published online: 18 September 2006

NB: Some of these links are to PDF files, so you may need to get Acrobat Reader and help with accessing PDF files from the Adobe website.

The following documents are available online:

• Executive Summary: HTML | PDF (254kb, 4 pages)
• The Full Report of the Working Group HTML | PDF (360kb, 22 pages)
• Guidelines on Copyright and Research: HTML | PDF (479kb, 25 pages)

See: Terms of Reference and Membership of the Committee