What if a STM publisher falls under "Notification Required" category?

Some STM signatory publishers (including Elsevier) do require notification for reuse of material that falls within these limits by other STM signatory publishers, which means written permission is required subject to the borrowing publisher’s proper acknowledgement of the original source of the material.

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 Wolters Kluwer, Wiley, Springer etc.) 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, STM publisher’s material is available via Rightslink®.

• For more information on the STM gratis limit and guidelines, please refer: https://stm-assoc.org/what-we-do/core-services/ip-copyright/permissions/permissions-guidelines/2024-permission-guidelines-updated-26-june-2024/
• For publisher under STM Not Opt-Out (Notification required) category, please refer: https://www.stm-assoc.org/intellectual-property/permissions/permissions-guidelines/

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