Copyright policies of academic publishers
This is a summary of the different copyright policies of
Publishing models
Academic publishers fall broadly into two categories: subscription and open access, which take different approaches to copyright.[1]
Subscription publishers typically require transfer of copyright ownership from the authors to the publisher, with the publisher monetising articles behind paywalls. The final version of an article as copyedited and typeset by the publisher is typically called the
Open access publishers allow authors to retain their copyright, but attach a reuse license to the work so that it can be hosted by the publisher and openly shared, reused and adapted. Such publishers are funded either by charging authors
Academic books and book chapters
Publisher | Self-archiving | Version | Permitted license | Embargo (months) | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bloomsbury | Permitted [a] | Published | All rights reserved [b] | 6 | [5] |
Cambridge University Press | Permitted [a] | Postprint | All rights reserved [b] | 6 | [6] |
De Gruyter | Permitted [a] | Postprint | 12 | [7] | |
Elsevier | Author must email to request permission | - | - | - | [8] |
Emerald | Permitted [c] | Postprint | CC BY-NC | 0 | [9] |
Oxford University Press | Permitted [a] | Postprint | All rights reserved [b] | 24 (HASS) or 12 (STEM) | [10] |
Routledge / Taylor & Francis | Permitted [a] | Postprint | no license restrictions | 18 (HASS) or 12 (STEM) | [11] |
SAGE (reference handbooks)
|
Permitted [a] | Postprint | no license restrictions | 24 | [12] |
SAGE (academic books, professional books, textbooks)
|
Forbidden | - | - | - | [12] |
Springer Nature | Permitted [a] | Postprint | All rights reserved [b] | 24 | [13] |
Wiley | Author must email to request permission | - | All rights reserved [b] | - | [14] |
- ^ a b c d e f g author's own chapter (if contributed to only one chapter) or 10% of the total book (if contributed to multiple chapters)
- ^ a b c d e i.e. may not be re-published, enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work without permission from original publisher
- ^ author's own chapter (if contributed to only one chapter) or full book (if contributed to multiple chapters)
Academic journals
Preprints
Academic publishers will not publish work that has already been published elsewhere, so a key issue has been the interpretation of a
The majority of academic journal publishers now accept submission of articles that have already been shared as preprints, with copyright of this version remaining with the author by default.[15]
Postprints
The sharing of
Published articles
The copyright of the final published version of record may reside with the authors or the publisher depending on the publisher's business model. For journals following a subscription model, where articles are accessed via a paywall, copyright is transferred from author to publisher. Sharing of the final formatted article is therefore typically never permitted.
The rise of
See also
- List of academic journals
- List of open-access journals
- Springer Nature
- Elsevier
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Taylor & Francis
- SAGE Publications
External links
- SHERPA/RoMEO - Journal publisher copyright & self-archiving policies database
- Transpose - Journal publisher preprinting policies database
References
- ^ a b c "Open Access & Copyright". Australasian Open Access Strategy Group. 2013-12-05. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
- ^ a b "About Sherpa Romeo version 2". v2.sherpa.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
- ^ Kingsley, Danny (2015-04-23). "Making book chapters available in repositories". osc.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
- ^ "Policies for Hosting Elsevier Articles". Elsevier. Archived from the original on Jan 31, 2021. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
- ^ "Bloomsbury Open Access". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
- ^ "Green open access policy". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
- ^ "Repository Policy". De Gruyter. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
- ^ "Open Access Books". Elsevier. Retrieved 2021-08-25.
- ^ "Our open research policies | Emerald Publishing". www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
- ^ "Author reuse and self-archiving". Oxford Academic. Archived from the original on 2017-02-20. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
- ^ "Routledge & CRC Press Open Access Books - Publishing OA Books - Chapters". Routledge. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
- ^ a b "SAGE Book Content Open Access Archiving Policy". SAGE Publications Australia. 2016-01-21. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
- ^ "Self-Archiving Policy". Springer. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
- ^ "Self-Archiving". Wiley Author Services. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
- from the original on Nov 21, 2020.