Copyright licences and author rights
Video about copyright (4 min. 20 sec.)
Find out more on our Copyright for Researchers page, including information on your copyright, Creative Commons licences, third party copyright and seeking copyright permissions.
Hints and tips:
- Always check your funder open access policy
- You will fulfil the University of Southampton Open Access Policy by uploading the final, refereed, corrected, accepted manuscripts (‘Author Accepted Manuscript’) of your peer-reviewed journal articles to Pure at the point of acceptance for publication
- Copyright, licences and knowing your author rights can be confusing – please contact us eprints@soton.ac.uk if you have any questions
Planning for third party copyright
This applies when the rights to content (for example, images, maps, figures or long text extracts) that you would like to include in your publication do not belong to you. You will need to seek permission from the copyright holder to include their material.
Find out more in our Obtaining permissions for reusing content from journal articles guide.