Copyright & CC Licences

FAQs

• I have several co-authors. Who holds the copyright?

  Copyright is jointly shared by all natural persons who contributed to the creation of a work.

• What are the rights and obligations for the corresponding author?

  The corresponding author speaks on behalf of all authors of a work. He or she has no extended copyrights for the respective work.

• The journal is asking me if I am authorised to publish this work. Am I?

  If you are an employee in one of the four research institutes Eawag, Empa, PSI or WSL, you are in general authorised to publish the work you authored, provided all your co-authors agree.

  Commonly, this questions targets US or Commonwealth governmental employees. Here, copyright holder is the organization, not the author(s).

• Can I re-use any open access article?

  Open Access means that scholarly articles can be freely accessed. Whether and to which degree they can be re-used is defined in the actual license under which it is published. You will have to determine the license for any work you want to re-use.

• How can I refer to the published version of an article I embed in my thesis or dissertation?

  This depends on the policy of the publisher with whom the manuscript was published.

  A comprehensive list on policies across publishers for embedding published manuscripts into a thesis can be found here: https://github.com/tuub/theses-publisher-policies/blob/master/policies.md