When is permission required and how do I request it?
Last updated on January 17, 2019
In general, written permission must be obtained from the rights holder to re-use any copyrighted material. Typically, the rights holder of published material is the publisher unless it is explicitly indicated otherwise. Copyrighted material can include figures, illustrations, charts, tables, photographs, and text excerpts. Re-use of any borrowed material must be properly acknowledged, even if it is determined that written permission is not necessary.
Rightslink is the Copyright Clearance Center's automated permission-granting service, which is used by Elsevier along with many other STM publishers such as Wiley-Blackwell, Taylor & Francis, and Wolters Kluwer. With Rightslink, customers can request permission 24/7 for select content from the individual journal article or book chapter page on the publisher’s website. Please refer to Permissions for content on Science Direct for further information about how Rightslink is managed on Elsevier platforms.
We ask that you complete the permissions template which is available on the Resources tab on EMSS. This is used to identify whether the artwork is either original, copyright free or copyrighted material.
It is the Author’s responsibility to obtain permission to reproduce any copyrighted material. Please use original, unpublished figures, tables, and other content, or at minimum content that is original to Elsevier and its imprints, whenever possible.
When requesting permission to re-use material in your forthcoming Reference Work, we ask that the rights holder grant to Elsevier the following rights:
- This and all subsequent editions, revisions, versions, derivative works, translations, ancillaries, adaptations, supplementary materials, and custom editions
- All languages
- All formats and media now known or hereafter developed
- Worldwide distribution in perpetuity.
We often cannot include material where these rights have been restricted. In these cases, you will need to obtain alternate material.
For more information please see the following links:
- STM Permissions Guidelines (Elsevier is an STM signatory publisher)
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