Rights and Permissions

• Assignment of copyright |
• Your retained rights as an author |
• Self archiving policy |
• Permissions requests |

Assignment of copyright

It is our policy to ask all contributors to transfer the copyright in their contribution. There are two broad reasons for this:

• ownership of copyright by the journal owner facilitates international protection against infringement of copyright, libel or plagiarism;
• it also ensures that requests by third parties to reprint or reproduce a contribution, or part of it, in either print or electronic form, are handled efficiently in accordance with our general policy which encourages dissemination of knowledge within the framework of copyright.

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Your retained rights as an author

As an author, you retain many rights and in the following cases you will not need to obtain specific permission, although you should provide the usual acknowledgements regarding copyright and give a full bibliographic reference.

You have the right to:

• reuse figures, illustrations and tables from the Contribution in other work prepared by yourself;
• make copies (without charge) of the Contribution for personal use, including classroom teaching use (but not for inclusion in course pack material for onward sale by libraries and institutions);
• make and distribute copies of the Contribution to colleagues, for the personal use by such colleagues (but not commercially or systematically, e.g. via an e-mail list or list serve);
• present the Contribution at a meeting or conference and to distribute copies to the delegates attending the meeting;
• patent and trademark rights and rights to any process or procedure described in the Contribution;
• use the Contribution or any part thereof in a printed compilation of works of the author, such as collected writings or lecture notes (subsequent to publication of the Contribution in the journal);
• prepare other derivative works, to extend the Contribution into book-length form, or to otherwise re-use portions or excerpts in other works authored by you (subsequent to publication of the Contribution in the journal);
• for the author's employer, if the article is a 'work for hire', made within the scope of the author's employment, the right to use all or part of the Contribution for other intra-company use (e.g. training).

NB: the above use of the term 'Contribution' refers to the author's own version, not the final version as published in the Journal.

Self archiving policy

Most of our journals permit authors to archive the final draft of their manuscript (i.e. the version accepted for publication, following peer review and including any resultant revision, but prior to copy-editing by the publisher) on their own website or their institution's or funding body's online repository/archive.

All journals participating in this policy require that public availability of the author's archived version of the manuscript must be delayed until 24 months after first online publication in the relevant journal.

The archived version must be clearly identified as the author's post-peer-review, pre-copy-edit version and a link must be provided to the definitive, published version on the Palgrave Macmillan Journals web site.

An acknowledgement in the following form should be included:

"This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in [insert journal title XXX here]. The definitive publisher-authenticated version [insert complete citation information here] is available online at: [insert URL here]"

Please contact the relevant journal Publishing Manager if you require assistance with the correct online citation details. Contact details are available here.

The following journals are not covered by this policy, and applications to post material from these journals should be sought from the Rights Manager at rights@palgrave.com:

• Comparative Economic Studies
• European Management Review
• Development
• Journal of Information Technology
• Journal of International Business Studies

There is no requirement for authors to seek permission to post material (other than for the excluded journals) provided usage is as per the above conditions.

Please ensure that the conditions of any grant funding you may have received to produce your article do not conflict with our policies.

Permissions requests

For many of our journals, you can process a permissions request to reproduce or reuse text or images online using the Rightslink system. Simply navigate to the Abstract page for the relevant article; if the Rightslink option is available, you will see a link to Request Permission on the right side of the page. Click here and follow the on-screen instructions.

For those articles where the online processing option is not available, please complete the form below: