Copyright

In order to publish your document in an open repository, you have to retain the control over the copy right (or parts of it).

The following applies to DiVA

1. Published by Stockholm University
   The author retains copyright and can make the publication freely available unless other agreements prohibiting this have been made.
2. International scientific journals
   The author has assigned (parts of) his/her rights to the publisher. Most publishers/journals allow authors to make their articles freely available provided that certain conditions are fulfilled. If you want to learn more about the policy of the publisher/journal that published your articles, you find the policy of publisher/journal in the SHERPA/RoMEO database. If information is not there, contact the publisher/the editor of the journal directly and ask for permission.
3. Dissertations
   Monographs. If published by the department, the dissertation can be made freely available. If the monograph is published by a publisher, the publisher must be contacted and asked for permission to self-archive in DiVA.
   Comprehensive summary. The author holds the copyright to the comprehensive summary and can make it freely available. Whether articles included can be made open access or not, depends on agreements made with the publisher.
4. Books, chapters in a book, published conference papers, journals/publishers without a OA policy
   Contact the publisher directly and ask for a permission.
5. Photos and copyright
   Artistic works, images, illustrations, diagrams, etc. also have copyright protection, which means they may not be used by anyone other than the author without their permission. This protection is governed by the Act on Copyright in Literary and Artistic Works (SFS 1960:729).
   BUS (Visual Arts Copyright Society of Sweden) represents thousands of Swedish and international artists. If you want a picture, etc. belonging to any of these, please refer to BUS. In other cases, you can contact the author, publisher or editor. Always specify the context in which you want to use the work and where it is to be published.
   If you do not have permission to use an image, etc. digitally, you can omit it and replace it with an explanatory text: "For copyright reasons, there is no image in the digital edition".

Introduction to Copyright Resources 
 

Published: Thursday, September 15, 2011

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Updated: Tuesday, November 08, 2011