New Model Publishing License Reflects Changes in Copyright Assignment
BioOne has worked closely for more than a year with a team of lawyers to create a new type of license allowing authors to retain copyright while granting publishers a time-limited exclusive right of first publication and a perpetual, non-exclusive license to publish, distribute, and sublicense.
In response to NIH’s Public Access Policy and other institutional and subject repository deposit mandates, the license allows authors to deposit their work in digital repositories directly.
This license will be used by BioOne publications but is being offered to the academic publishing community as a model license in the current environment. BioOne provides resources to academic publishers looking to use this new model license.
