1. Authors Reserve the Copyright of Open Access Articles Published in ILS.
2. Permission is Required when:
3. Permission is Not Required when:
6. Conferences, Proceedings, and Abstracts
1. Authors reserve the copyright of open access articles.
INTERNATIONAL LIFE SCIENCES PUBLISHERS (Abbreviated as ILS)is specially authorized by the authors to publish their articles and serve as the original publisher under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0.
As for the third party, permission is generally not required for the reuse of the articles, provided that integrity of the work can be reserved, and original authors, citation details and publisher are properly attributed.
In accordance with CC BY 4.0, the content of open access articles can be used, distributed, and reproduced in any medium on the premise of crediting the original author and source.
2. Permission is required when:
(1) The reused content is from the author’s own published materials, but the publisher (i.e. the copyright holder) is not ILS.
(2) Massive part of a copyrighted work from someone else is reproduced in the submitted manuscript.
(3) Tables, Graphs, Charts, Schemes and Artworks from someone else are used in the submitted manuscript with the style stipulated by the original copyright holder or with minor modifications.
When the permission is required, then you should submit the written evidence. Authors have the obligation to receive the indispensable written consent from the corresponding copyright holder if needed.
Reproducing Published Material from Other Publishers
As a general rule, authors are responsible for receiving the written permission from the copyright holder or exclusive licensee, along with complete details about the source, in case of reproducing any substantial part of published materials that have appeared in copyrighted form elsewhere. This includes the figures/diagrams, schemes, tables, any extract of a text, content taken from websites, etc. Details are subject to the terms of the publisher's permission.
3. Permission is not required when:
(1) Use your own table with data from other sources with minor reorganization. In such circumstance, extra statement, such as “Date from……” or “Adapted from…..” is necessary.
(2) In case short quotes are properly used by the authors in their work, they should only be additionally listed in the references sections.
(3) Marked modification and redrawing are conducted on Graphs , Charts , Schemes and Artworks without a trace.
(4) The reused open access materials should comply with the Creative Commons licences, where the purpose of commercial use is permitted.
4. Obtaining Permission
Authors wishing to include contents that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright holder as early as possible and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their articles, in case of delaying the publication. An enquiry should be made if there is any doubt about the copyright or permission. ILS do not support the publication of articles containing material from other publications without permissions.
Instructions in the acknowledgment of the copyright holder should be adhered to. Specific illustrations (e.g.,. Reproduced with permission from [author], [book/journal title];
Published by [publisher], [year]) are required to be noted below the Table, Figure or Scheme.
5. Preprints
ILS allows the authors to reprint their work prior to submission or during review, but their full copyright and re-use rights cannot be granted to the repositories or preprint servers (e.g.,. PeerJ Preprints, arXiv, OSF, etc.).
6. Conferences, Proceedings, and Abstracts
When being used as conference papers, the manuscripts can be deemed original only if over 25% of new contents are supplemented with and the current version has significantly higher academic value than the original conference version. A substantial body of new raw material (e.g., experiments or data) or reprocessed old data sets should be provided to ensure the originality of discussion and/or conclusions in the manuscripts.
The author should obtain the permission from the copyright holder of the published conference paper before reuse. Evidence for such permission should be uploaded in the form of supplementary material or directly submitted to the editorial office of ILS.
Conference materials should be properly quoted in the text and added in the reference list if applicable.