Some STM signatory publishers (including Elsevier) do not require notification for reuse of material that falls within these limits by other STM signatory publishers, which means that permission is automatically granted subject to the borrowing publisher’s proper acknowledgement of the original source of the material; no written permission is necessary.

If Elsevier is the borrowing publisher, we need to track extremely carefully how much total material we are reusing from the borrowed‐from publisher (for example SAGE) to ensure that we do not exceed the STM limits—most notably, “no more than three figures from works published by a single publisher for a book chapter” and “in total not more than thirty figures from a single publisher for republication in a book.” Often, especially where the other publisher’s material is available via Rightslink®, it may be preferable to obtain written permission anyway, simply to retain a record of the permission (which will be granted free of charge) for our records.

For more information on the STM gratis limit and guidelines, please refer: https://www.stm-assoc.org/2022_01_27_STM_Permission_Guidelines_2022.pdf

For publisher under STM Opt-Out (No notification required) category, please refer: https://www.stm-assoc.org/intellectual-property/permissions/permissions-guidelines/

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