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Reusing Our Books
Every title is published under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 by default, stated on the book and in its metadata.Where a funder's terms require a different Creative Commons licence, the book is published under that licence instead. Tell us the award at proposal stage and the licence is set accordingly. Under that licence you may, without asking us:
- Read, download, print, store and redistribute the whole book or any part of it, unaltered.
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- Set a chapter as a course reading, or include it in a coursepack that is not sold for profit.
- Quote from it in your own scholarly work.
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Authors Reusing Their Own Work
You may quote and reuse your own material in your teaching, in articles and in later scholarly work, with acknowledgement of the book. A new edition, an abridgement or a translation is arranged with the Press.
Third-Party Material in Our Books
Some items within an otherwise open book may not be openly licensed: images, archival documents, long quotations or figures where the rights holder would not permit it. These are clearly marked in the text with their rights status. The licence on the rest of the book is unaffected, but to reuse a marked item you must approach its rights holder directly.
Using Third-Party Material in a Book You Are Writing for Us
You are responsible for clearing it, and it must be cleared for open licensing; a print-only permission is not sufficient for an open-access book. Clearance is the commonest cause of delay in open-access book production and should be started as soon as a proposal is accepted. We supply templates and advice, and we will help you find alternatives where clearance proves impossible. See author guidelines.
Translation
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Requests We Do Still Need to Handle
- Commercial use of any kind.
- Translation, adaptation or abridgement.
- Use of our name, imprint or logo, including any suggestion of endorsement.
- Reuse of cover artwork, which is often separately licensed from the text.
- Reuse of marked third-party material: for this you need the rights holder rather than us, but we will tell you who they are.
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