Copyright policy
Describes the rights related to the publication and distribution of research in Biotech Express. It governs how authors (as well as their employers or funders), publishers and the wider general public can use, publish and distribute articles or books.
Biotech Express requires authors to assign publication rights to Biotech Express as a condition of publishing the work. Biotech Express relies on either an assignment of copyright with permanent rights reserved to the author, or an equivalent grant of a license. Biotech Express treats the rights granted as the basic means of obtaining certain exclusive publication rights; to create and deliver the Digital Library; to further disseminate works by acting as a single source for republication requests, such as aggregated collections or translations, and the delivery of the material to the requesting party; to protect works from plagiarism and any other unauthorized uses; and to sustain and develop its publishing program by selling subscriptions or charging for access to its collections. Authors also grant any third party the right to use the article freely as long as its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details and publisher are identified.
Biotech Express requires that authors have the authority to grant rights by copyright or license agreements, or that they obtain the necessary authorization to execute the grant of rights. Such grant applies to any medium used by Biotech Express for publication. Both the Biotech Express Copyright Transfer and the Biotech Express Publishing License Agreement leave important rights with the original owner.
The author’s grant of rights applies only to the work as a whole, and not to any embedded objects owned by third parties. An author who embeds an object, such as an art image that is copyrighted by a third party, must obtain that party’s permission to include the object, with the understanding that the entire work may be distributed as a unit in any medium. The requirement to obtain third-party permission does not apply if the author embeds only a link to the copyright holder’s object.
Authors who wish to embed a component of another Biotech Express -copyrighted or licensed work, e.g., an excerpt, a table, or a figure, must obtain an explicit permission (there is no fee) from Biotech Express.