REIS Journal Policies
Copyright and Licensing Policy
All articles published by REIS are open access which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or their institution. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. Users can use, reuse and build upon the material published in the journal but only for non-commercial purposes.
In our 'Authorship, copyright and submission declaration' we have the following definition for copyrighting:
Permission has been obtained for all reproductions from copyrighted sources and is acknowledged in the appropriate place in the manuscript.
In interpreting this statement, we will use the following interpretations:
- Reproductions means a direct copy of a diagram from another source (i.e. basically a scan or reproduction of the content), then you need to get permission to use – particularly from a journal or a book or other publication that holds copyright – even if it is one you developed. You need to provide the reference along with the page number below it: 'Source: Reference and page number'.
- Where you alter a diagram from another source, sufficiently to claim you have adapted it then you need to acknowledge the source by putting a statement below it: 'Source: Adapted from Reference and page number'.
- Where you have used text-based theory to develop a diagram then just acknowledge the source, perhaps something like: 'Source: Developed from reference'.