The Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Copyright & Terms of Use

Terms of use for JoSoTL are adapted from those used by the Indiana Law Journal, published by the Indiana School of Law in Bloomington, IN. We appreciate their willingness to share their work via Indiana University Counsel.

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General Provisions

Copyright 2000, The Trustees of Indiana University. Except as may be expressly provided elsewhere in this publication, permission is hereby granted to reproduce and distribute copies of individual works from this publication for nonprofit educational purposes, provided that copies are distributed at or below cost, and that the author, source, and copyright notice are included on each copy. This permission is in addition to rights of reproduction granted under Sections 107, 108 and other provisions of the U.S. Copyright Act.

In signing the Copyright Agreement with the journal, the author represents and warranties that the article is an original work not previously published in English and that the author has the legal right to offer the article for publication in the Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL). The author warrants that the article does not contain material that is defamatory or infringes the copyrights of others. To the best of the author's knowledge, publication of the article in the Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL) will not subject the journal to liability.

Transfer of Copyright

The publishing industry has grown increasingly complex in recent years, particularly the variety of means for delivering information. To best manage the rights associated with works published in the Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL), we believe that the Trustees of Indiana University should hold the copyright. We also believe that we should grant authors and readers explicit rights to use and copy works published here under appropriate circumstances. However, if authors prefer, we are willing to allow authors to retain their copyright if that is what they prefer.

Authors hold copyright to their work when it is "fixed" to paper or computer media. The choice they must make is whether to transfer that copyright to the journal or retain it for themselves.

The choice of option made below will be defined for each article published in the Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL) in accordance with the Copyright Agreement signed by the author and the journal.

Option One: Author Grants Copyright to JoSoTL

Under copyright law, the author of a work is deemed to be the copyright holder. Transferring copyright to the Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL) makes administration of copyright and reprint requests much simpler. Since it is the policy of the journal to release reprint rights for all nonprofit uses, transferring copyright to the Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL) should lead to wider dissemination of your work. If the author does not transfer copyright to the journal, the author must make individual arrangements to secure copyright with the US Copyright Office directly.

Questions of infringement only become the responsibility of the Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL) and the Trustees of Indiana University if the copyright has been transferred to the journal.

Under Option One, the author hereby transfers to the Trustees of Indiana University the copyright and all other literary rights in and to the article. Although the copyright will remain with the Trustees of Indiana University, the author shall retain a nonexclusive license to:

Reproduce, distribute, publicly display or perform your work, in whole or in part, for your own personal, professional, or educational purposes, provided that each copy includes the following statement: "Copyright 2000 by The Trustees of Indiana University. Reproduced with permission from the Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL)."
Publish all or part of your article in subsequent works of your own, such as a new article on the same subject or a book of which you are an author, provided that you credit the Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL) as the original published source of the relevant material. For a period of one year after the date of first publication in the Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL), any publication of your article in a collective work prepared by others shall require the journal's permission.

Option Two: Author Retains Copyright But Grants Rights to the Journal

The author hereby agrees to retain the copyright, but grants to the Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL) the exclusive right to first publish the work.
The author hereby grants to the Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL) a nonexclusive license to reproduce, distribute, and publicly display or perform the work, in whole or in part.
The author hereby grants to the Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL) a nonexclusive license to authorize the reproduction, distribution, and public display or performance of the work, in whole or in part, for nonprofit, educational uses.
The author hereby grants to the Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL) a nonexclusive license to reproduce, distribute, and publicly display or perform the work, in whole or in part, in any electronic medium, whether now known or later developed.
The author will own the copyright in the article, and will therefore be responsible for registering the article with the United States Copyright Office.
The author agrees to cite their work as first published in the Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL) whenever reproducing it.

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