Open Access - Contracts

Publisher contracts

Within the publisher contract, the author concedes usage rights to a publisher, e.g. the entitlement for reproduction or for dissemination or the right for public access. Those may be conceded as simple or exclusive usage rights in a geographically, temporarily or content-related way. The usage rights transferred may only be conceded to third parties under the condition of agreement of the publisher with whom the contract was concluded. In the case that you have e.g. signed a contract with the publisher Shaker regarding your publication, it is significant to check if the right for public access (internet) was conceded in an exclusive way. In case of doubt, you should better contact the publisher. An orientation regarding the policies of the publishers is provided by the Sherpa-Romeo-list. In this respect, please also have a look at the information concerning secondary publications.

Some authors add themselves amendments to the standard contracts in order to preserve their rights for secondary publication or to avoid an embargo.

In case of publication at the University Press of Chemnitz University of Technology, you concede an exclusive right for the printed version to the publisher for the period of deliverability as well as a simple usage right for the online publication. This means that an additional online publishing on a homepage or within a subject-specific repository is possible. For further information regarding the publisher contract and the concession of rights, please consult the websites of the University Press.

In case of an exclusive online publication within the repository MONARCH-Qucosa you concede a simple usage right for the online publication as well. In this context, you will have to fill in a declaration of consent (PDF). It remains up to you if you release your publication by a publisher or to provide it online at another place. In the case that the online publication is released at first, the publisher should prior to subsequent publication necessarily be informed about the version already available.