Schedule of authors rights
The rights that you personally retain as Author
1. the right to be identified as the Author of an article whenever and wherever the Article is published;
2. patent rights, trademark rights, or rights to any process, product or procedure described in an article;
3. the right to share (but not on a commercial or systematic basis) with colleagues print or electronic ‘preprints’ (i.e., versions of the article created prior to peer review) of an unpublished Article, perhaps in the form and content as submitted for publication;
4. in accord with the editorial policy of the Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia on prior publication, the right to post such a ‘preprint’ on your own website, or on your institution’s intranet, but only with the following acknowledgement or such other acknowledgement:
This is a preprint of an article submitted for consideration in the Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia © [year of publication] copyright Royal Society of Western Australia Inc. that is available online at: [www.rswa.org.au]
5. the right to retain a preprint version of the Article as specified above following publication on the following condition, and with the following acknowledgement:
This is a preprint of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia © [year of publication] copyright Royal Society of Western Australia Inc. that is available online at: [www.rswa.org.au]
6. the right to post your revised text version of the ‘postprint’ of the Article (i.e., the Article in the form accepted for publication following the process of peer review), as an electronic file on your own website for personal or professional use, or on your institution’s network or intranet or website, but not for commercial sale or for any systematic external distribution by a third party (for example a listserv or database connected to a public access server) provided that you do not use the PDF version of the Article prepared by the Society and you include any amendments or deletions or warnings relating to the Article issued or published only with the following acknowledgement:
‘This is an electronic version of an article published in [include the complete citation information for the final version of the article as published in the print edition of the Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia © [year of publication] copyright Royal Society of Western Australia Inc. that is available online at: [www.rswa.org.au]
The right in this paragraph 6 is subject always to an embargo of 12 months after first Publication (be it online or in print);
7. the right to share with colleagues (but not on a commercial or systematic basis) copies of an article in its published form as an electronic or printed offprint or reprint;
8. the right to make printed copies of all or part of an article for use by you for lecture or classroom purposes provided that such copies are not offered for sale or distributed in any systematic way, and provided that acknowledgement to prior publication in the Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia is made explicit.
9. the right to facilitate the distribution of the Article if the Article has been produced within the scope of an Author’s employment, so that the Author’s employer may use all or part of the Article internally within the institution or company provided that acknowledgement to prior publication in the Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia is made explicit;
10. the right to include an article in a thesis or dissertation that is not to be published commercially, provided that acknowledgement to prior publication in the Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia is made explicit;
11. the right to present an article at a meeting or conference and to distribute printed copies of the Article to the delegates attending the meeting provided that this is not for commercial purposes and provided that acknowledgement to prior publication in the Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia is made explicit;
12. the right to use the Article in its published form in whole or in part without revision or modification in personal compilations [in print or electronic form] or other publications of an Author’s own articles, provided that acknowledgement to prior publication in the Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia is made explicit;
13. the right to expand an article into book-length form for publication, provided that acknowledgement to prior publication in the Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia is made explicit.