Permissions and Licensing
It is the mission of The Rockefeller University Press to promote widespread reuse and distribution of the articles and data we publish. In this spirit, authors retain copyright to their own work and can reuse it for any purpose as long as proper attribution is provided. Third parties may use our published materials under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License six months after publication. Within the first six months, the same conditions for reuse apply, except we prohibit the creation of mirror sites. Commercial reuse must be requested as described below and will incur a fee.
We encourage you to read more about our permission policies and the Creative Commons License terms:
- You wrote it; you own it! (Hill and Rossner, 2008)
- RUP Copyright Policy
Requesting Permission Licensing
Please read below to determine if you must obtain permission for your specific reuse.
Original author reuse (commercial and noncommercial)
Ownership of copyright remains with RUP authors, who may reuse their own material forany purpose, including commercial profit, as long as they provide proper attribution. The permission does not extend to the institution.
- Note that our preferred citation style is as follows:
- ©AUTHOR et al., YEAR. Originally published in JOURNAL NAME. doi:########.
- If an article does not carry a doi, our preferred citation style is as follows:
- ©AUTHOR et al., YEAR. Originally published in JOURNAL NAME. VOL:PP–PP.
Noncommercial third-party reuse
Third parties may reuse our content for noncommercial purposes without specific permission as long as they provide proper attribution (see citation preferences provided above). Within the first 6 months after publication, the creation of mirror sites is prohibited.
Commercial third-party reuse
Commercial publishers, profit-based companies, as well as third-party authors publishing in a commercial journal or book must obtain permission to reuse RUP material. In most cases, this permission will incur a fee. Uses include, for example, use of a figure in a commercial journal article or book, posting of images on a manufacturer’s website, inclusion of content in marketing materials, etc. The RUP acknowledges that text or data mining by commercial entities for their internal research purposes is allowed without further permission from RUP. Commercial entities may develop indexing or search services—available to the public for free or for a fee—based on text or data mining without further permission from RUP, but they may reproduce only snippets of text up to 156 characters in length, or thumbnails of images up to 72 pixels in the long direction, as part of such a service.
How to obtain permission
Permission for commercial reuse can be obtained by emailing the following information to Suzanne O’Donnell, Permissions Director, at permissions{at}rockefeller.edu:
- Your name, institution, and title
- Your complete mailing address, email address, phone number, and fax number
- A description of the content you wish to reuse:
- Journal or book title
- Article title
- Authors’ names
- Volume number, issue date, page numbers (provide all that apply)
- Specific figure numbers or portion of text (or supply a photocopy)
- Include the following information about your intended reuse:
- Type of work in which our material will be used (e.g., book, journal, newsletter, etc.)
- Title of work in which RUP material will appear
- Title of article/chapter (if applicable)
- Author(s)/editor(s)
- Expected publication date
- Publishing company
- Retail price (for books only)
- Print run (for books only)
- Indicate if there will be ancillaries published simultaneous to the print (DVD, website, CD-ROM, etc.). Will ancillaries be sold separately?
- Intended audience for the work
- If you wish to reprint the material online, please include the following:
- Your website’s URL
- Website’s sponsoring organization/company
- Description of the purpose and nature of your website
- Description of the website’s visitors (customers, scholars, professors, etc.)
- Whether the site is open to the public or access is restricted
Educational use
No permission is required to reuse RUP material for noncommercial purposes in course packs, classroom handouts, or electronic classroom presentations. If the educational material will be offered for sale, please follow the instructions above for Commercial third-party reuse.
Reprints
Commercial reprints are available by special order. Please contact Suzanne O’Donnell at permissions{at}rockefeller.edu to request pricing information. Please supply the full article citation (author, year, vol, pp) and the number of reprints you would like to order.
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