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Notice
For Membrana Institute to publish and make available the author(s)' article, the author(s) must grant Membrana Institute the publication rights to this work. Therefore, we ask the author(s) publishing in one of our journals to sign a copyright agreement giving Membrana the necessary publication rights. This is done after the author(s) manuscript has gone through the peer review process and reached the production stage – before the final version is published.
Copyright
The author(s) need to agree to transfer all the copyrights necessary for publishing the article to Membrana Institute. The author(s) agree to our limited three years exclusive license agreement; after three years (starting with the publishing date) the agreement automatically becomes non-exclusive.
If the author(s) wishes to grant Membrana Institute an unlimited exclusive license for the work, the author(s) should contact Membrana before the expiry of the limited exclusive license.
For any other uses or the use of the work after the expiry of an exclusive license agreement, Membrana will contact the author(s) to reach a new agreement or to amend the existing one.
After the expiry of the exclusive license agreement author(s) is free to use the work in all formats except in Membrana's produced galleys of VoR, CVoR and EVoR (pdfs, xml, and html) as the author(s) sees fit. For these uses, the author(s) will need to specify the Membrana Institute as the original publisher of the work with details about the original publication.
Open Access & Copyright
If the author(s) publishes an article in open access, the author(s) retain full copyright to the work. Membrana must be granted the right to publish the article in its publications in Version of Record format via the copyright agreement signed prior to publication of the article.
In the copyright agreement, the author(s) can select the Creative Commons (CC) license of their choice and the article will be published under that license. The CC license specifies how the article can be used by third parties. Membrana recommends choosing the Attribution-NoDerivatives International (CC BY-ND) or Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives International (CC BY-NC-ND) licenses, as they give the author(s) more control over their work while encouraging the dissemination of the work by scientific and other communities.
Creative Commons Licences:
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Attribution-ShareAlike International (CC BY-SA)
Attribution-NonCommercial International (CC BY-NC)
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Attribution-NoDerivatives International (CC BY-ND)
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives International (CC BY-NC-ND)
Detailed information on CC Licences.
Sharing & Republishing
AO = Author’s Original
SMUR = Submitted Manuscript Under Review
The author(s) are free to share these versions at any time before and during the publication process and at any time after the VoR is published. It is recommended that the author(s) also share the link to the Membrana VoR document, as this will help disseminate the final version of the article and promote article metrics by making your article available to the scientific community through the search and indexing engines
AM = Accepted Manuscript
P = Proof
An embargo of half a year from the date of online publication of the article applies to the release of these versions. It is recommended that the author(s) also share the link to the Membrana VoR document, as this will help disseminate the final version of the article and promote article metrics by making your article available to the scientific community through the search and indexing engines
VoR = Version of Record
CVoR = Corrected Version of Record
EVoR = Enhanced Version of Record
The author(s) are free to share and disseminate the article in the scientific and research networks associated with their professional communities (affiliated college websites, research networks, and/or affiliated research institutes and similar), indicating the source of the original content. The article may not be distributed for commercial purposes through commercial or subscription-based networks.
Sharing & Republishing in Open Access
The author(s) are free to use the work in all formats without limitations or restrictions. The exception are commercial and re-publishing uses of Membrana's produced specific galleys (pdfs, xml, and html) of VoR, CVoR, and EVoR.
Third-Party Material
The use of short excerpts of text and some other types of material is generally permitted on a limited basis for criticism and review without formal permission.
If you wish to use the material in your submission for which you do not own the copyright and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you must obtain written permission from the copyright holder prior to submission. For such uses, the author is responsible for clearing the permission of third-party material including visual material, such as photographs, graphs, pictures, larger sections of written copyrighted work (such as a whole poem or a chapter of a copyrighted article), etc.
The author must obtain the permission of all copyright owners prior to the publication of the material and the disclosure statement regarding the use of third-party material needs to be submitted prior to publication.
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