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Licences and Copyright

SAFE Journal of One Health applies the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) licence to all published articles, enabling free and unrestricted use of published content.

Authors retain copyright to their work and agree to have the CC BY licence applied. Any third-party content included in manuscripts must be cleared for use under an open access licence compatible with CC BY 4.0.

Please note: The following policy applies to all submissions to SAFE Journal of One Health.

Reuse of Published Article Content

The journal applies the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) licence, or other comparable licences that allow free and unrestricted use. In articles and other items you submit for publication by the journal, you retain copyright to your work and you agree to have the CC BY licence applied to your work.

If your institution or funder requires your work or materials to be published under a different licence or dedicated to the public domain — for example Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (CC0) or Open Governmental Licencing — the terms are required to be equivalent to or more permissive than CC BY.

The journal requires that you as the author agree to have your article content free for anyone to copy, redistribute, reuse, or modify the content for any purpose, for free, even for commercial purposes. These permitted uses include but are not limited to self-archiving by authors of submitted, accepted and published versions of their papers in institutional repositories.

Content Owned by Someone Else

If your manuscript contains content such as photos, images, clipart, tables, audio files, videos, proprietary protocols, or code that you or your co-authors did not create, the journal will require you to provide proof of either that:

  • The material is in the public domain or available under an open licence compatible with CC BY 4.0, or
  • The owner of that content has given you written permission to use and publish the content under an open access CC BY 4.0 licence.

Please note that purchasing copyright use is unlikely to meet this requirement. In addition, the journal cannot accept Creative Commons licensed materials with additional non-commercial (CC BY-NC), share-alike (CC BY-SA), or non-derivative (CC BY-ND) clauses.

The Content Copyright Permission form can be used to request permissions from the relevant copyright holder. Authors should fill out the first page of the form with details on the material they wish to reuse and ask the copyright holder to confirm and sign the second page of the form.

If you do not have clear permission, the journal will ask you to remove the content and/or replace it with other content that you own or have permission to use.

Do not assume that you can use any content you find on the internet, or that the content is fair game just because it isn't clear who the owner is. Under no circumstances should your manuscript contain third-party trade secret information.

Using Content Previously Published in Another Journal

Many authors assume that if they previously published a paper through another publisher, they own the rights to that content and they can freely use that content in their journal paper. That's not necessarily the case — it depends on the licence that covers the other paper.

If the paper was published under a CC BY licence or another licence that allows free and unrestricted use, you may use the content in your journal paper provided that you give proper attribution.

If the paper was published under a more restrictive licence, you must ascertain what rights you have under that licence. Contact the publisher if you have any questions about the licence terms — journal staff cannot give you legal advice about your rights to use third-party content.

Maps

Any maps included or created as part of a figure must use a basemap tile, shapefile, or image compatible with our CC BY 4.0 licence. If your submission file inventory includes a map, the journal will ask you to provide a direct link to the source of the basemap and provide attribution or licence information in the corresponding figure legend.

Several sources provide map data and shapefiles within the public domain or with open access licences:

Removal of Content Used Without Clear Rights

The journal reserves the right to remove any photos, captures, images, figures, tables, illustrations, audio and video files, or other confidential or proprietary content, from any article, whether before or after publication, if concerns are raised about copyright, permissions or the terms and conditions where the authors are unable to provide documentation confirming that appropriate permissions were obtained for the publication of the content under a CC BY 4.0 licence.

Trademarks and Symbols

Please note that the journal cannot publish copyright symbols such as ®, ©, or ™. The journal is also unable to publish logos or other brand-related content.

Acceptable Licences for Data Repositories

If any relevant accompanying data is submitted to repositories with stated licensing policies, the policies should not be more restrictive than CC BY 4.0.

Giving Proper Attribution for Use of Content

When citing a journal research article, use the "Vancouver style," as outlined in the Submission Guidelines. For example:

Kaltenbach LS et al. (2007) Huntingtin Interacting Proteins Are Genetic Modifiers of Neurodegeneration. PLoS Genet 3(5): e82. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0030082

When citing non-article content from a journal website (e.g., blog content), provide a link to the content, and cite the title and author(s) of that content.

Contact

For questions about licences, copyright, or permissions, please contact the Editorial Office.

Editorial Office — SAFE Journal of One Health
Published by The SAFE Society Publishing
Email: editor@thesafesociety.com
Website: https://journal.thesafesociety.com