Copyright and Licensing

JIDMIS supports the need for authors to disseminate their research and thus maximize its impact. Authors, users, and readers of an article also need to be clear about how they can use it. JIDMIS adopts Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which governs how authors, publishers, and the wider general public can use, publish, and distribute articles. Below is a quick reference guide for the permitted reuse of your article.

Authors may:

  • copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially,
  • You can remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial use.

A digital file of the published article or the link to the published article (JIDMIS web page) may be made publicly available on websites or repositories, such as the author’s personal website, preprint servers, university networks, or primary employer’s institutional websites; third-party institutional or subject-based repositories; and conference websites that feature presentations by the author(s) based on the published article, under the condition that the posting must be for non-commercial purposes.

Reproducing Published Material from other Publishers

It is absolutely essential that authors obtain permission to reproduce any published material (figures, schemes, tables, or any extract of a text) that does not fall into the public domain or for which they do not hold the copyright. Permission should be requested by the authors from the copyright holder (usually the publisher; please refer to the imprint of the individual publications to identify the copyright holder).

Permission is required for:

  • Your own works published by other publishers, and for which you did not retain copyright.
  • You can take significant excerpts from any individual's work or a collection of works.
  • Use of tables, graphs, charts, schemes, and artworks if they are unaltered or slightly modified.
  • You do not possess copyright for photographs.

 Permission is not required for:

  • You can rebuild your own table using data that has already been published elsewhere. Note that you must cite the data source as "Data from..." or "Adapted from..." in this case.
  • Reasonably short quotes are considered fair use and therefore do not require permission.
  • Graphs, charts, schemes, and artworks that are completely redrawn by the authors and significantly changed beyond recognition do not require permission.

Obtaining Permission

To avoid unnecessary delays in the publication process, you should start obtaining permissions as early as possible. If in any doubt about the copyright, apply for permission. JIDMIS cannot publish material from other publications without permission.

The copyright holder may give you instructions on the form of acknowledgement to be followed; otherwise, follow the style "Reproduced with permission from [author], [book/journal title]; published by [publisher], [year]' at the end of the caption of the table, figure, or scheme.