Author rights

(these rights are retained when publishing an Open Access article)

Authors remain the owners of the copyright to the article and retain the following non-exclusive rights (for further details, please refer to the licence agreement that accompanies article proofs):

(1) authors may reproduce the article, in whole or in part, in any printed book (including thesis) of which they are author, provided the original article is properly and fully attributed;
(2) authors and any academic institution where they are employed may reproduce the article, in whole or in part, for the purpose of teaching students;
(3) authors may post a copy of the article on their website, provided that it has already been published by the journal and is linked to the journal’s website at http://jeb.biologists.org;
(4) authors may use data contained in the article in other works they create;

Disclaimer

Responsibility for:
(1) the accuracy of statements of fact;
(2) the authenticity of scientific findings or observations;
(3) expressions of scientific or other opinion;
(4) any other material published in the journal rests solely with the author(s) of the article in which such statements, etc., appear. No responsibility for such matters is assumed by the journal, its owners, publishers, referees or staff.

Reader and librarian rights

Readers and librarians are free to make copies of articles without seeking specific permission in the following circumstances, providing they are for free distribution and are not sold:
(1) for private study, copying must be done by the individual who wishes to use the article, or an employee at the institution to which he/she belongs, without any charge beyond the cost of the copying;
(2) in the case of production of multiple copies, these must be used for bona fide teaching purposes, and copying must be done by a member of staff of the university, school or comparable institution, without any charge beyond the cost of the copying.

Open Access rights

Articles published under the JEB Open Access model will be made freely available online via the Company’s website immediately following publication, deposited in PubMed Central for immediate release and can be distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike License (the terms of which are set out at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode). This license permits the copying and/or adaptation of the Article and the distribution of the Article or any such adaptation by any means and in any medium or format to any other person, provided that:

(i) the original authorship is properly and fully attributed and JEB is attributed as the original place of publication with correct citation details given;
(ii) if an original work is subsequently reproduced or disseminated not in its entirety but only in part or as a derivative work this is clearly indicated;
(iii) the Article or adaptation is only distributed on a non-commercial free-of-charge basis; and
(iv) all further distributions of the Article or adaptation (as applicable) must be subject to the same Creative Commons License terms; this must be made clear to others, preferably using a link to the Creative Commons webpage.

Authors who pay the Open Access fee are also permitted to post the final, published PDF of their article on a website, institutional repository or other free public server, immediately upon publication, provided a link is included between the web page containing the Article and the Journal’s website at http://jeb.biologists.org/.

Under the JEB Open Access model, all users have unrestricted rights to re-use Open Access content for educational and research purposes; however, those wishing to re-use content for any kind of commercial purposesmust continue to obtain permission from JEB as the original publisher. Please contact permissions{at}biologists.com providing a full reference of the material you want to use and a brief description of the intended use.

Copyright and reproduction

Articles in JEB are published under an exclusive, worldwide licence granted to the publisher by the authors, who retain copyright. For full details of Open Access article use, see Open Access rights above.

Permission to use material from JEB in other publications

Authors are free to reproduce material from their own articles in other publications. Other individuals must first seek permission from The Company of Biologists to reproduce material by sending an email to permissions{at}biologists.com

Permission to use material from other publications in JEB

It is the responsibility of the author to obtain permission to use material (e.g. figures) from another publication in any article submitted to JEB and to ensure that any such use is credited to the source. Written permission from the author and/or publisher of the original material, if required, should be provided at the time of submission, otherwise publication may be delayed. If you have modified a figure from a previously published figure, please check with the copyright owners to see whether permission is required and include a complete citation/reference for the original article.

For all other matters relating to the reproduction of material, please email permissions{at}biologists.com