关键词: 智库, 权益, 权益管理, 开放资源

Abstract: [Purpose/significance] By investigating the rights policies of world-renowned think tanks, this paper provided references for libraries and policy consulting researchers about constructing and using the resources in the think tanks.Moreover,it provides suggestions for China’s new-type think tanks about the rights policies of the output. [Method/process] This paper adopted the network research method, and selected the survey subjects based on the'2019 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report’ issued by the University of Pennsylvania. This paper comprehensively investigated the rights of think tank output, and classified and summarized the copyrights, release methods, licensing methods, and specific rights regulations of output construction. [Result/conclusion] Suggestions are made for avoiding the rights risk in the construction and use of think tank output, including examining the rights of output in detail, paying attention to the laws of the country or region to which they belong, and referring to the hierarchical and classified think tank output rights management framework proposed in this paper. It is also recommended that China’s new-type think tanks attach importance to the protection of intellectual property rights of output, and draw on the experience of world-renowned think tanks to formulate reasonable output rights policies.

Key words: think tanks, rights, rights management, open access resource