Author Rights
International Journal of Social Sciences (IJSS) supports the need for authors to share, disseminate and
maximize the impact of their research. We take our responsibility as
stewards of the online record seriously, and work to ensure our policies
and procedures help to protect the integrity of scholarly works.
Author's rights to reuse and post their own articles published by IJSS are defined by IJSS's copyright policy. For our proprietary titles, the type of copyright agreement used depends on the author's choice of publication:
For subscription articles: These rights are determined by a copyright transfer, where authors retain scholarly rights to post and use their articles.
For open access articles: These rights are determined by an exclusive license agreement, which applies to all our open access content.
In both cases, the fundamental rights needed to publish and distribute an article remain the same and IJSS authors will be able to use their articles for a wide range of scholarly purposes.
Details on how authors can reuse and post their own articles are provided below.
Help and support
For reuse and posting not detailed below or for authors who would like to:
Author's rights to reuse and post their own articles published by IJSS are defined by IJSS's copyright policy. For our proprietary titles, the type of copyright agreement used depends on the author's choice of publication:
For subscription articles: These rights are determined by a copyright transfer, where authors retain scholarly rights to post and use their articles.
For open access articles: These rights are determined by an exclusive license agreement, which applies to all our open access content.
In both cases, the fundamental rights needed to publish and distribute an article remain the same and IJSS authors will be able to use their articles for a wide range of scholarly purposes.
Details on how authors can reuse and post their own articles are provided below.
Help and support
For reuse and posting not detailed below or for authors who would like to:
- Include material from other sources in your work being published by IJSS, please visit: Permission seeking guidelines for IJSS authors.
- Obtain permission to re-use material from journals, databases, or other products, please visit: Obtaining permission to reuse IJSS material
- Or if you are an IJSS author and are contacted by a requestor who wishes to re-use all or part of your article or chapter, please also refer them to our Obtaining Permission to Re-Use IJSS Material page.
- See our FAQ on posting and copyright queries.
- Contact us directly, please email our Permissions Help Desk.
How authors can use their own journal articles
Authors can use their articles for a wide range of scholarly, non-commercial purposes as outlined below. These rights apply for all IJSS authors who publish their article as either a subscription article or an open access article.We require that all IJSS authors always include a full acknowledgement and, if appropriate, a link to the final published version hosted on Science Direct.
For open access articles these rights are separate from how readers can reuse your article as defined by the author's choice of Creative Commons user license options.
| Authors can use either their accepted author manuscript or final published article for: | |
|---|---|
 | Use at a conference, meeting or for teaching purposes |
| | Internal training by their company |
| | Sharing individual articles with colleagues for their research use* (also known as 'scholarly sharing') |
| | Use in a subsequent compilation of the author's works |
| | Inclusion in a thesis or dissertation |
| | Reuse of portions or extracts from the article in other works |
| | Preparation of derivative works (other than for commercial purposes) |
*Please note this excludes any systematic or organized distribution of published articles.
