Acquiring information on publisher policies and practices on copyright and licensing

Presentation slides to guide a workshop on finding and using resources on publisher policies and practices on copyright and licensing. The slides go into 19 resources that contain some of this information: BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine); CCC Marketplace; cOAlition S Journal Checker Tool; Copyright, CC-license, version check and IF display by journal publishers; Crossref Participation Reports; DataCite Commons; DOAJ; ESAC Registry; Individual publisher websites; Ithaka SR Generative AI licensing agreement tracker; JISC open policy finder; The LENS; Library Partnership Publisher Ratings; MIT list of publisher dissertation allowances; Dutch Journal Browser; OADirectory list of Rights retention policies; Openaccess.nl National read/publishing agreements list; OpenAlex; Sondervan's List of EU countries with Secondary Publishing Rights in the law; Wikipedia list on book copyright policies of publishers. For each resource there is an indication of the type and level of information they contain. The types of information discerned are: CC-licenses; other licenses; copyright retention policies; green OA sharing allowances; embargo lengths; AI training policies. The levels of information discerned are: journal level; publisher level; author country level; author institution level; article/book/chapter level; repository level. There are also examples of uses cases for this kind of information.