Reuse of your work

For our journals policy please visit our Open Access Journals webpage

Authors may be required by research funders or their institution to make a book or chapter freely available, or to archive a copy in a repository. We offer both Gold Open Access options and Green Open Access options to enable you to comply with these policies and make your work more accessible.

Gold Open Access is a paid for option for making the final published version (the version of record, or VoR) available Open Access immediately on publication. This is the most effective way of widening dissemination and is available for both chapters and the full book. Click here for details of our Gold OA options.

Green Open Access is an alternative option for making the pre-production ‘Author’s Accepted Manuscript ‘(AAM) available Open Access without a charge. This is available for a limited number of individual chapters (not full books) as detailed in our policy below.

Green Open Access policy

The policy applies to material included in: 

• Scholarly monographs, and edited scholarly works
• Research Handbooks

The policy does not apply to:

• Textbooks, the Advanced introductions series and books of teaching cases
• Books published primarily for teaching use
• Titles published for the commercial legal market
• Reference works such as encyclopaedias, dictionaries or legal commentaries.

Summary of our Green Open Access policy

The AAM is the author accepted manuscript. This is the version that has been submitted to the publisher and accepted for publication, but has not yet been edited, typeset and paginated by the publisher.

You may post your work to your personal website, an open subject repository, a university institutional repository, or a social sharing site such as SSRN or ResearchGate. This includes repositories that operate an Open Access policy.

We grant this permission free of charge, subject to the following conditions:

• There is an embargo period of twelve months from our own publication date for an open repository (no embargo for a closed repository)
• In some cases, exceptions can be made to our embargo periods to meet funder mandates.
• Authors may post a single chapter from their authored book
• Contributors to an edited book may post a single chapter that they have contributed
• The original submitted version (the AAM) is posted (i.e. before any editing by or on behalf of Edward Elgar Publishing.)
• Full acknowledgement is made to the published work, including authors, editors and publisher.

Please apply a Creative Commons (CC) license to the AM version to make it clear to others how they can reuse your work.

We recommend the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license. This Creative Commons Licence allows sharing of the OA chapter by others ensuring that the Author is credited but does not permit any alterations to the OA Content or it to be used commercially without permission.

This permission does not cover any part of the material that is attributed to another source from which you would have to obtain separate permission.

If the material is downloadable, please add the following text to the manuscript before posting.

This is a draft chapter/article. The final version is available in [insert book title] edited by [insert editor(s) or author(s)], published in 20xx, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/978XXXXXXXXXX.000XX

It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.

The highlighted DOI link for your own chapter/article can be found next to the official online version of your work on Elgaronline.

If you would like to post the final published version of a book, chapter or article on the internet or on a unrestricted commercial web platform such as Research Gate or Academia.edu we offer Open Access options.

For more information and pricing please see our Open Access information page. 

For books containing original research papers, such as our scholarly monographs and handbooks, we apply the convention that exists among academic publishers to grant permission free of charge, if your chapter/article:

• is to be included in a book that you are the editor of and is being published by an academic publisher, or
• is to be included in a collection consisting entirely of your own work (though some chapters/articles in the collection may involve co-editors).
• The new book must have a later copyright date and you will need to obtain permission from any co-authors. You will also need to obtain permission for any parts of the materials that were attributed to another source.

Please contact PLSClear and complete the online form to obtain free permission.

If you wish to reuse a figure, chart or table, and it is your own work we will grant this permission with no charge. Please ensure that the publication date of the new publication is after the publication date of the original Elgar book or article, and fully reference the original publication. You will also need to obtain permission from any co-authors.

This permission does not cover any part of the materials that is attributed to another source for which you will also need to obtain permission.

Please contact PLSClear and complete the online form to obtain free permission.

We are happy for you to use the chapter or article that you have submitted to a scholarly monograph, handbook or journal for your personal teaching and in the course pack that you put together for your course. This is restricted to one or two chapters from the book.

The whole ebook may also be assigned to students if your institution purchases access through Elgaronline.

Any electronic version must have access restricted, for example by password protecting the website where students are accessing it. You do not need to contact us to use your chapter or article in your teaching as long as it is not publicly available and is the submitted version.

If you would like to use your chapter in a different way and it is not covered by the above options or by our general permissions page then please contact your commissioning editor or PLSClear who will be able to advise you: [email protected]