John Benjamins Copyright Policy

(Last updated: 24 February 2020)

It is the policy of John Benjamins Publishing Company to acquire the copyright to all contributions in its books and journals. Ownership of copyright by one central organization ensures maximum protection against infringement; it also ensures that requests by third parties to reprint a contribution, or part of it, are handled efficiently and in accordance with a general policy which is sensitive both to international copyright legislation and to encouraging the dissemination of knowledge.

The author of an article in a journal or edited book volume retains the following rights:

• The right to be identified as the Author of the article whenever and wherever the article is published.
• All proprietary rights other than copyright.
• The right to make copies of all or part of the article for use by the author themselves in teaching, provided that these copies are not offered for sale.
• The right to make copies of (parts of) the article for circulation within the institution that employs the author.
• The right to make and distribute copies of the article to individual research colleagues, for their own personal use. This may not be done commercially or through mass distribution channels such as, e.g., websites, list serves or e-mail lists.

• The right to post the ‘author submitted manuscript’ of the article (i.e., the author’s version before any selection or peer review process) on the author's personal website, the website/institutional repository of the author's institute and/or funder, and on electronic pre-print servers, including subject-based repositories and services such as Academia.edu, ResearchGate and Mendeley, provided that these services do not charge any fees for access to the article. This pre-print should be accompanied by a statement

  • that the article has been submitted but not yet accepted for publication in a book or journal,
  • or, that it has been accepted for publication in a book or journal, that it is under copyright, and that the publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use the material in any form.

• For articles in journals: the right to post the ‘author accepted manuscript’ (that is, a version reflecting any changes made in the peer review process, but not the published Version of Record, the publisher’s PDF, proofs, or offprint) on the author's personal website,  the website/institutional repository of the author's institute and/or funder, and on electronic pre-print servers, including subject-based repositories and services such as Academia.edu, ResearchGate and Mendeley, provided that these services do not charge any fees for access to the article. In all these cases the article should include

  • a citation of the published article and a link (preferably using the DOI) to the journal or volume on the publisher's website,
  • and a notice that it is under copyright and that the publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use or reprint the material in any form.

• For articles in edited volumes: with an embargo of 12 months from the publication date of the book, the right to post the ‘author accepted manuscript’ (that is, a version reflecting any changes made in the peer review process, but not the published Version of Record, the publisher’s PDF, proofs, or offprint) on the author's personal website,  the website/institutional repository of the author's institute and/or funder, and on electronic pre-print servers, including subject-based repositories and services such as Academia.edu, ResearchGate and Mendeley, provided that these services do not charge any fees for access to the article. In all these cases the article should include

  • a citation of the published article and a link (preferably using the DOI) to the journal or volume on the publisher's website,
  • and a notice that it is under copyright and that the publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use or reprint the material in any form.
• The right to present the article at a meeting or conference and to distribute copies of the article to the delegates attending the meeting.
• The right to re-use portions or excerpts in other works by the author themselves.
• The right to use all or part of the published material in any monograph by the author, provided that prior written permission is obtained from John Benjamins Publishing Company, a citation to the published article is included, and a notice is added that the publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use or reprint the material in any form.

For any other use, please contact the Rights & Permissions department of John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Open Access articles

If your journal article was published in Open Access through payment of a fee or in a journal that offers Open Access by default, you and anyone else may re-use the article within the limits of the specific license under which the article was made Open Access. In most cases, this will be either the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) or the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial (CC BY-NC) license.

For more information on Open Access options, visit our Open Access information page.