- Copyright in the European Respiratory Journal, European Respiratory Review and ERJ Open Research
- Copyright in Breathe and the ERS books
- Author reuse rights
Copyright in the European Respiratory Journal, European Respiratory Review and ERJ Open Research
If you are publishing in Breathe or one of the ERS book series, these conditions do not apply. Please see the section "Copyright in Breathe and the ERS books".
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In order for ERS to ensure the widest possible dissemination and protection of material published in its publications, we request that authors grant to ERS a worldwide and exclusive licence to produce, publish, sell, distribute and make available, and to further sub-licence their article in print, digital and other media formats, including abstracts and supplementary material. This enables ERS to ensure maximum international copyright protection against infringement, and to disseminate your article, and the relevant publication, to the widest possible readership. Depending on the final licence chosen to publish your work (for instance a Creative Commons open access licence), elements of that licence may override the exclusivity of this grant. This page is designed to explain what that licence means for authors.
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In granting this licence you are not forfeiting your rights to use your article elsewhere. Your re-use rights are explained below in the section “Author rights and permissions”.
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It is understood that in some cases the contributor’s employer will hold copyright. If so, the ERS requires non-exclusive permission to deal with requests from third parties. Under these circumstances, the contributor’s employer retains the right to licence the content of the article to third parties. However, this right does not extend to the use of ERS branding, article layout and design: any requests to use the ERS branding, article layout or design must be directed to the ERS publications office at permissions@ersnet.org.
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Your article will be stored electronically. Your grant of a copyright licence signifies your agreement to the ERS making arrangements to include your article in document delivery services and databases worldwide.
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By signing the copyright licence, you certify that your article is your original work; that it has not been published before and is not being considered for publication elsewhere; that you have obtained permission for and acknowledged the source of any excerpts from other copyright works; and that to the best of your knowledge your article contains no statements that are libellous, unlawful or in any way actionable.
Copyright in Breathe and the ERS books
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ERS’s policy is to acquire copyright from all contributors to articles in Breathe and chapters in ERS books. In agreeing to this transfer, authors assign worldwide copyright in print, digital and other media in their articles, including abstracts and supplementary materials, to ERS.
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In assigning your copyright you are not forfeiting your rights to use your article or chapter elsewhere. Your re-use rights are explained below in the section “Author rights and permissions”.
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It is understood that in some cases the contributor’s employer will hold copyright. If so, the ERS requires non-exclusive permission to deal with requests from third parties. Under these circumstances, the contributor’s employer retains the right to licence the content of the article to third parties. However, this right does not extend to the use of ERS branding, article layout and design: any requests to use the ERS branding, article layout or design must be directed to the ERS publications office at permissions@ersnet.org.
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Your article will be stored electronically. Your assignment of copyright signifies your agreement to the ERS making arrangements to include your article in document delivery services and databases, etc., worldwide.
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By assigning copyright you certify that your article is your original work; that it has not been published before and is not being considered for publication elsewhere; that you have obtained permission for and acknowledged the source of any excerpts from other copyright works; and that to the best of your knowledge your article contains no statements that are libellous, unlawful or in any way actionable.
Author reuse rights
Regardless of whether their article is published open access and in addition to any self-archiving rights (see the instructions for authors for your publication), all authors retain the following rights:
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Use of the article in whole or in part in a thesis or dissertation, provided this is not made available for commercial sale or through another commercial channel.
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Reproduction of their article in whole or in part for their own course teaching purposes, provided the course is not commercially funded and the article is available only to enrolled course participants.
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Use of individual figures or tables or short (250 words or fewer) passages of text in journal articles of which they are an author.
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Use of individual figures or tables or short (250 words or fewer) passages of text in books of which they are an author or editor.
Authors of articles published under one of the Creative Commons open access licences also have all the rights granted by those licences. For more details, please consult the instructions for authors.
For any reuse of your article that falls outside these rights, or if you are not sure about your rights, please contact permissions@ersnet.org.
This page was last updated on 21 December 2020