You may assign your copyright to your publisher (as has been typical with print publications). This means, however, that you will no longer control the rights to your work, and you will have to seek their permission to re-use it.
You can license your work to the publisher for specific publication purposes, for a period of time, on an exclusive or non-exclusive basis, and for distribution, whether limited or unlimited.
You can assign some of your rights and reserve some of your rights (a carve-out approach) so that without further permission, you reserve the right to:
- Post and distribute copies on your own website
- Share work as posted on research networks
- Make research results publicly available when a required by a research grant
- Contribute your work to an institutional repository such as Academic Commons