The second Zwolle Conference was able to take forward the process of reaching agreement between the various parties involved in 'Copyright and Universities' into a statement of principles now known as the 'Zwolle Principles'. The Objective of the Principles is 'to assist stakeholders - including authors, publishers, librarians, universities and the public - to achieve maximum access to scholarship without compromising quality or academic freedom and without denying aspects of costs and rewards involved'.

The document 'Copyright Policies and Agreements: implementing the Zwolle Principles' tries to give a start to the implementation. It lists words and phrases from several university copyright policies and several agreements between publishers and authors.

Many of the policies and agreements listed in this document were in place before the Zwolle Principles were agreed but they illustrate the approach to copyright embodied in the Principles. These examples have been compiled in order to assist universities, authors and publishers in drafting policies and agreements governing the relationship between the various stakeholders in good copyright management.

The document was prepared for SURF and the Zwolle Group by Frederick J. Friend ucylfjf@ucl.ac.uk.

Following one of the links below, you can read more about both Agreements or Policies.

- Publisher Agreements with Authors
- University Copyright Policies

The full document is also available in PDF: 'Copyright Policies and Agreements: implementing the Zwolle Principles' (201 Kb)