When integrating texts or figures from other publications rights should be clarified with publishers as copyright holders in advance, as in most cases all rights have been assigned from the authors to the publisher. Publishers deal with these rights in different ways and in most cases you will find what you are looking for under "Permissions".

There are publishers, for example, who allow re-use of illustrations on a blanket basis within a certain framework (examples: Seismological Society of America, AGU), while other publishers expect demand and often provide forms for this purpose. Usually all rights holders naturally expect a correct quote of the publication in which the illustration was originally included.

Some publishers cooperate with the Copyright Clearance Center (Rightslink) to manage copyright requests (for example Elsevier, Springer). In those cases please turn to the library, as we are registered at CCC.

Please be aware that for cumulative dissertations you should clarify the rights to publish articles in advance, in order to avoid legal problems later when publishing the dissertation.

Included articles may have to be released by the publisher before it is allowed to include them in a dissertation, as preprints are not permitted by every publisher.

However, other publishers also give a general permission for this type of subsequent use.

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