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Dissemination 45 Section 10 If you publish research results in a journal or similar, the publisher of the journal will want you to enter into a contract with them. This contract may transfer all IP in the article to the publisher or license that IP to the publisher. Be careful. Any such contract needs to exclude IP set out in the article which is part of the research results, such as diagrams, photographs or questionnaires, so that all the publisher has is a non-exclusive licence for the purposes only of publishing the article itself. Those items should be marked as having been reproduced "by permission of" your institution. Freedom of Information The Freedom of Information Act 2000 applies to "public authorities", which includes universities receiving public funds and the Research Councils. This Act can require the disclosure of research results by your institution. The results are generally exempt from disclosure in the following situations: n they are intended for future publication n disclosure would be likely to prejudice commercial interests n they are personal data n they were provided in confidence to your institution. Your institution may still have a duty to release the results where the public interest in disclosing it outweighs the public interest in maintaining the exemption in question. Even research which is undertaken on a contract basis, though covered by confidentiality clauses, is unlikely to attract exemption permanently, except to the extent that the research results amount to "trade secrets". Consultancy To the extent that the research results comprise know how, it may be that the other participant(s) need assistance from you or your co-researchers to be able to understand or to use the know how as part of a licensing arrangement. It may be that this assistance from you could be supplied on a consultancy basis.