Copyright & Licensing

Open access articles in Biophilia Insights (BI) are published under Creative Commons licences. These provide an industry-standard framework to support easy re-use of open access material. Under Creative Commons licences, authors retain the copyright of their articles.

BI articles are published open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license (Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International licence). The CC BY licence is the most open licence available and considered the industry 'gold standard' for open access. The authors of the articles published in BI holds the copyright of the articles. This licence allows readers to copy, redistribute, remix, transform or build upon the material in any medium or format and for any purpose, but non-commercial.

Copyright aims to protect the specific way the article has been written to describe an experiment and the results. Biophilia Insights is committed to its authors to protect and defend their work and their reputation and takes allegations of infringement, plagiarism, ethic disputes and fraud very seriously. Copyright on any research article is retained by the author(s). Authors grant the journal a license to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher. Authors also grant any third party the right to use the article freely as long as its original authors, citation details and publisher are identified.