Transfer of Copyright
Papers published in White Horse Press journals must be original and must not have been published elsewhere (theses, informal departmental working papers and circulation at conferences do not count as publication in this context). Authors should obtain the necessary written permission in advance from any third party owners of copyright for the use in print and electronic formats of any of their text, illustrations, graphics, or other material, in their article and in our journal. Copyright in all articles must be transferred to the White Horse Press, to enable their widest possible dissemination by all available means without referring back to the authors. This is a stated condition of publication: at present we do not require signature of a formal form of transfer, though we can provide such a form on request. The transfer of copyright is standard practice in serials and journals publishing. It is designed to facilitate the protection from copyright abuse for authors, editors, and publishers involved in the creation of a single copyright product composed of multiple contributions.
Authors retain their proprietory rights. Authors are free to publish their paper either in its original published version or in a revised or expanded form, after it has appeared in the journal, as part of a book written or edited by themselves. Acknowledgement should be made of the original journal publication. Other requests for publication rights (e.g. for inclusion in anthologies edited by third parties) should be referred to the White Horse Press.
Copying of Articles
Authors may share with colleagues copies of an article in its published form as supplied by White Horse Press as a printed or electronic offprint. If we provide a PDF it is intended for personal use only, i.e. you can use it to print copies or to send instead of offprints, but it must NOT be published more widely or made accessible via the internet.
Authors may make printed copies of all or part of their own articles for use for lecture or classroom purposes or for distribution at conferences, provided that such copies are not offered for sale or distributed in any systematic way, and provided that due acknowledgement is made.
A person who is not the author may make one copy of an article for the purposes of private study or research. Unlicensed multiple copying without permission is illegal. Permission to make multiple copies for course packs etc. can be obtained by librarians through the Copyright Licensing Agency.
Open Access
Authors and grant awarding bodies increasingly demand the right to publish open-access versions of papers that appear in scholarly journals, either freely or on payment of a one-off charge. While this may be the future of academic publishing, we doubt the wisdom of shifting from a model where readers pay for what they want to read (if the quality of a journal declines so will its subscription income) to a model where the costs of publication fall directly or indirectly on the authors. The unintended result may well be that readers increasingly have free access to well-funded research, and that less well-funded researchers will find it more difficult than before to get their work presented in reputable international publications.
However, we will allow authors to post their own electronic versions of their papers as pre-prints (ie pre-refereeing) or post-prints (ie final draft post-refereeing) subject to the following conditions:
Publisher's version/PDF cannot be used
Archive must be on a non-profit server
Published source must be acknowledged
Publisher copyright must be acknowledged
Link to publisher version must be included