Reproduction rights & permissions

Publication models

Inter-Research articles are published either
  1. Open Access under the Creative Commons by Attribution (CC-BY) License, freely accessible to all users from the moment of publication, or
  2. Subscriber Access, behind a paywall and accessible only to the registered users of journal subscribers. The paywall is removed 5 years after publication and then the articles are freely accessible to all users.

Web Content Accessibility

For information on Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) compliancy, see here.

Copying and transmission of articles

Open Access articles

Open Access CC-BY articles may generally be freely copied and transmitted.

Other articles freely accessible and/or labelled Free Access or Open Access but not with a Creative Commons CC-BY license are subject to normal copyright restrictions (see Subscriber Access articles below).

Subscriber access articles

General users

Articles not published under the CC-BY license are subject to standard copyright law. Single copies may be made or transmitted for personal study or use.

For articles behind the paywall, the subscriber’s registered users may retrieve, display, download and print out copies of individual articles. Such copying shall be limited to making single copies of a reasonable number of individual items. Users may only transmit items from the publications to other registered users.

Authors

Authors may supply a single copy of the article on direct request. Inter-Research supplies authors with a specially watermarked edition of the article for this purpose.

For information on author online self-archiving, see Open Access page.

Interlibrary Loan

A subscribing library may supply via an externally established interlibrary loan scheme a printed or digital copy of an individual article being part of the Licensed Materials for the purposes of research or private study and not for commercial use.

Article descriptive metadata and abstract

For all articles

  1. The article title, list of authors and affiliations, volume number, page range in volume or article number, and its DOI; and
  2. The text of the abstract and the key words, can be reproduced without seeking permission, but properly acknowledge the source if not given already in the text being used.

Author self-archiving in Open Access repositories

Authors of articles published by Inter-Research should consult the page Open Access for their rights regarding author self-archiving in open Access Repositories ('Green' Open Access).

Republishing or reusing content from articles marked [Old Open Access CCBY logos] or [New Open Access Symbol]

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Re-use of articles (or selected content of articles) published Open Access under the Creative Commons by Attribution Licence (CC-BY)is mostly unrestricted and no permission is required for re-use as long as the following conditions of the Creative Commons License are met:

  1. The original authors and original source of publication must be acknowledged;
  2. No additional restrictions can be applied to how others can use the new published version. It should be stated that the original was published under a CC-BY License and ideally a link inserted to the Creative Commons by Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 licence;
  3. Any changes or adaptations made to the reproduced content should be indicated.

Copyright still exists in the article and the copyright holder(s) (usually the authors or their institutions) can revoke the license if the conditions are breached. Open Access does not mean that the article is in the Public Domain.

Only articles clearly marked with "CC BY" or with the Open Access open lock logo in the top right corner of the front page are published with the Creative Commons by Attribution Licence and can be reproduced without permission. 

The CC-BY option was not available for Inter-Research journals before 1 April 2013. Articles marked "Open Access" or "Free Access" but not marked "CC BY" were made freely accessible to all users at the time of publication but are subject to standard copyright law regarding reproduction and distribution.

Republishing or reusing content from all other articles

Copyright law requires a reproduction license to be issued by the copyright holder. 

Inter-Research can only issue reproduction licenses for articles where it is a copyright holder (i.e. Inter-Research is named in the legal copyright notice at the foot of the article first page). 

Re-use of a reasonable amount of content of IR articles (figures, tables, text, data) for scientific or educational purposes is generally free of charge, but permission must be obtained. 

Please complete the Application Form below. You will receive a response by email generally within 1 to 2 working days. 

For assistance on what to do when Inter-Research is not a copyright holder, any other questions in relation to reproduction permissions for Inter-Research articles, or technical problems with the Form, please email permissions.

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