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Introduction Although called a "Researcher's Guide", this guide is equally applicable to those operating in the academic field but who are not researchers, such as teaching fellows and educational designers. During the course of your career, you will be involved in creating and/ or using academic materials and will seek to publish your research. In doing so, you will create and develop intellectual property ("IP"), mainly copyright, and may use IP belonging to third parties. You may also be asked to give people rightsover your IP so that it can be successfully commercialised. There is a number of issues of which you need to be aware when engaging in such activities. Putting together academic materials may seem to be a straightforward task, however, protecting them or making sure that you are not using third party IP illegally can be a far more arduous task. Similarly, the publishing world is a minefield unless you possess the know-how required to navigate it successfully. This Guide aims to give you some helpful tips and an overview of the key issues which you may need to consider when dealing with academic materials or when looking to publish. In particular, this Guide explains: n what IP is relevant when dealing with academic materials and publishing n what key issues you should be aware of when looking to publish n how to get clearance to use others' IP n what matters you should be aware of when using and/or commercialising academic materials or engaging in publishing. Throughout, we refer to "your IP", but this is to make the Guide personal. Legally, any IP that you create almost certainly belongs to your research institution, though there are limited circumstances where this does not apply, as will be explained in this Guide. However, in spirit, you, your institution and its IP team will act as one. Your IP commercialisation organisation (or equivalent) will be able to advise you further, however, this Guide will act as a prompt for you in these relationships. Remember that this is just a guide and not a substitute for you taking your own independent professional advice. 2