Licenses and Copyright
The following policy applies to the Journal of Education for Pure Science (JEPS).
JEPS applies for the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ) to articles and other work that we publish. If you submit your paper for publication by JEPS, you agree to have the CC BY license applied to your work. Under this Open Access license, you as the author agree that anyone can reuse your article in whole or part for any purpose, for free, even for commercial purposes. Anyone may copy, distribute, or reuse the content as long as the author and original source are properly cited. This facilitates freedom in reuse and also ensures that JEPS content can be mined without barriers to the need for research.
If you have written permission to do so, yes. If your manuscript contains content such as photos, images, figures, tables, audio files, videos, etc., that you or your co-authors do not own, we will require you to provide us with proof that the owner of that content (a) has given you written permission to use it, and (b) has approved of the CC BY license being applied to their content. We provide a form that you can use to ask and obtain permission from the owner. If you do not have the owner's permission, we will ask you to remove that content and/or replace it with other content that you own or have such permission to use. Do not assume that you can use any content you find on the Internet, or that the content is fair use just because it is not clear who the owner is or what license applies. It is up to you to ascertain what rights you have—if any—to use that content.
Many authors assume that if they previously published a paper through another publisher, they own the rights to that content and they can freely use that content in their PLOS paper, but that’s not necessarily the case – it depends on the license that covers the other paper. Some publishers allow free and unrestricted re-use of article content they own, such as under the CC BY NC SA license. Other publishers use licenses that allow re-use only if the same license is applied by the person or publisher re-using the content.If the paper was published under a CC BY NC SA license or another license that allows free and unrestricted use, you may use the content in your JEPS paper provided that you give proper attribution, as explained above.If the content was published under a more restrictive license, you must ascertain what rights you have under that license. At a minimum, review the license to make sure you can use the content. Contact that JEPS if you have any questions about the license. If the license does not permit you to use the content in a paper that will be covered by an unrestricted license, you must obtain written permission from the publisher to use the content in your JEPS paper. Please do not include any content in your JEPS paper which you do not have rights to use, and always give proper attribution (http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/licenses-and-copyright#loc-give-proper-attribution) .
If any relevant accompanying data is submitted to repositories with stated licensing policies, the policies should not be more restrictive than CC BY NC SA.
JEPS reserves the right to remove any photos, captures, images, figures, tables, illustrations, audio and video files, and the like, from any paper, whether before or after publication, if we have reason to believe that the content was included in your paper without permission from the owner of the content.
Copyright
For Bjas to publish and disseminate research articles, we need certain publishing rights from authors, which are determined by a publishing agreement between the author and the journal.
Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0] that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors can enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) before and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
