Copyright Policy
Author rights
The below table explains the rights that authors have when they publish with PLR, for authors who choose to publish open access . These apply to the corresponding author and all co-authors.
We use CC-BY-SA and CC-BY for Copyright licensing, this table will explain what author rights is when published an article with PLR.
| Author rights |
Published open access |
|---|---|
| Retain patent and trademark rights | √ |
| Retain the rights to use their research data freely without any restriction | √ |
| Receive proper attribution and credit for their published work | √ |
| Re-use their own material in new works without permission or payment (with full acknowledgement of the original article): 1. Extend an article to book length 2. Include an article in a subsequent compilation of their own work 3. Re-use portions, excerpts, and their own figures or tables in other works. |
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| Use and share their works for scholarly purposes (with full acknowledgement of the original article): 1. In their own classroom teaching. Electronic and physical distribution of copies is permitted 2. If an author is speaking at a conference, they can present the article and distribute copies to the attendees 3. Distribute the article, including by email, to their students and to research colleagues who they know for their personal use 4. Share and publicize the article via Share Links, which offers 50 days’ free access for anyone, without signup or registration 5. Include in a thesis or dissertation (provided this is not published commercially) 6. Share copies of their article privately as part of an invitation-only work group on commercial sites with which the publisher has a hosting agreement |
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| Publicly share the preprint on any website or repository at any time. | √ |
| Publicly share the accepted manuscript on non-commercial sites | √ |
| Publicly share the final published article | √ in line with the author’s choice of end user license |
| Retain copyright | √ |
Institution rights
Authior amd their institution has the right to use articles for classroom teaching and internal training. Articles can be used for these purposes throughout the author’s institution, not just by the author:
| Institution rights in PLR | All articles |
|---|---|
| Copies can be distributed electronically as well as in physical form for classroom teaching and internal training purposes | √ |
| Material can be included in coursework and courseware programs for use within the institution (but not in Massive Open Online Courses) | √ |
| Articles can be included in applications for grant funding | √ |
| Theses and dissertations which contain embedded final published articles as part of the formal submission can be posted publicly by the awarding institution with DOI links back to the formal publication on ScienceDirect | √ |
Government rights
For Indonesian government employees, works created within the scope of their employment are considered to be public domain and in certain goverment agencies the copyright also belongs to government. For certain country like commonwealth countries, a work created by a government employee is copyrightable, but the government may own the copyright (Crown copyright).
