Copyright and Licensing

Authors retain copyright

Authors publishing in International Research Insights keep the copyright in their work. The journal does not ask for a transfer of copyright and never has. What the journal asks for is a licence to publish, which is a different thing and a far smaller one.

By submitting, the author grants the journal a non exclusive right to publish the article, to distribute it worldwide in electronic form, to archive it permanently, and to deposit it with indexing and preservation services. The author remains free to do everything an owner may do with their own work.

The licence

Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence, known as CC BY 4.0. Under this licence, anyone may:

• share the article, meaning copy and redistribute it in any medium or format;
• adapt it, meaning remix, transform and build upon it;
• do both for any purpose, including commercial purposes.

The single condition is attribution. Anyone reusing the work must credit the author and the journal, link to the licence, and state whether changes were made. They may not imply that the author endorses their use.

This is the most permissive of the standard scholarly licences and is the licence expected by the Directory of Open Access Journals and by most public funders. It is chosen deliberately: research that cannot be reused freely is research that travels less far than it should.

What authors may do with their published article

Authors may, without asking permission:

• post the published version on a personal website, an institutional repository, a subject repository, or an academic network profile;
• include the article in a thesis, a book, a compilation or teaching material;
• distribute copies to students, colleagues and conference audiences;
• translate the article, provided the original publication is credited;
• reuse figures, tables and text in later work with a citation to the original.

The only requirement is that the published version, the journal, the volume and issue, and the licence are identified. The detail of what may be posted where is set out in the self archiving policy.

Third party material

Where an author includes material owned by someone else, such as a photograph, a figure from another publication, a long extract of poetry or prose, an instrument or a data set, the author is responsible for obtaining written permission to publish it under a CC BY licence and for supplying that permission with the manuscript. Material whose owner will not permit open licensing should be replaced, redrawn or removed, and its source described in the text instead.

Copyright in the website

The design, code, layout, and editorial pages of this website are the property of the journal. The articles are the property of their authors under the licence above. Nothing on this site may be presented in a way that suggests the journal published work it did not, or endorsed a use it did not.

Complaints about infringement

If you believe material published here infringes your copyright, write to the Editor in Chief with the article concerned, the material at issue, the basis of your claim and your contact details. The journal will acknowledge within five working days, investigate, and where the claim is made out will remove or correct the material and publish a notice recording what happened.