Licenses

Open Access publication for articles and books require that authors select an Open Access license. The Open Access Creative Commons licence dictates how readers can make use of the published article, book or chapter.

From September 2024, authors can choose from the following list of Creative Commons user licences. Prior to this date, authors had the option to select from CC-BY or CC-BY-NC-ND licenses, and articles accepted before the change may be published under these terms.

It is the authors' responsibility to ensure the licence selected complies with their funding body’s requirements. Once selected, Creative Commons licences are non-revocable.

More information about each licence can be found at creativecommons.org

CC BY

This license allows for the full reuse and distribution of your article. Others can read, download, copy, distribute, crawl, print, remix, transform and build upon your material as long as they appropriately credit the original source.

For Authors: Pick this license if you want your article/book/chapter to be as Open Access as possible, without limiting how readers can re-use the content.

For Readers: You can use the article and the content in any means you would like, just make sure you give proper credit to the original author.

CC BY-NC

This license allows others to read, download, copy, distribute, crawl, print, remix, transform and build upon your material as long as they appropriately credit the original source, but they cannot use the work commercially.

For Authors: Pick this license if you want to restrict the reuse of the content in your article/book/chapter, particularly for commercial purposes.

For Readers: You can use the article and the content as long as it is not for a commercial purpose. Make sure you give proper credit to the original author.

CC BY-ND

This license allows others to read, download, copy, distribute your work in the unadapted form - no derivatives or adaptations are permitted. Reusers must appropriately credit the original source.

For Authors: Pick this license if you want to restrict derivatives of the content in your article/book/chapter.

For Readers: You can read the article/book/chapter, you can share it with your friends/colleagues/family. You can't change the article in any way, or make something new from it. Make sure you give proper credit to the original author.