Author and Institution rights

Author rights

The below points explain the rights that authors have when they publish with World J Exp Biosci. These apply to the corresponding author and all co-authors.

1. Retain patent and trademark rights.
2. Retain the rights to use their research data freely without any  restriction
3. Receive proper attribution and credit for their published work.
4. Re-use their own material in new works without permission or payment (with full acknowledgment of the original article):
   Extend an article to book length
   b. Include an article in a subsequent compilation of their own work
   c. Re-use portions, excerpts, and their own figures or tables in other works.
5. Use and share their works for scholarly purposes (with full acknowledgment of the original article):
   In their own classroom teaching. Electronic and physical distribution of copies is permitted
   b. If an author is speaking at a conference, they can present the article and distribute copies to the attendees
   c. Distribute the article, including by email, to their students and to research colleagues who they know for their personal use
   d. Share and publicize the article via Share Links, which offers 50 days free access for anyone, without signup or registration
   e. Include in a thesis or dissertation (provided this is not published commercially)
   f. Share copies of their article privately as part of an invitation-only work group on commercial sites with which the publisher has a hosting agreement.
6. Publicly share the preprint on any website or repository at any time.
7. Publicly share the accepted manuscript on non-commercial sites.
8. Retain copyright.
9. Publicly share the final published article in line with the author’s choice of end-user license.

Institution rights

Regardless of how the author chooses to publish with World J Exp. Biosci. The institution has the right to use articles for classroom teaching and internal training. Articles can be used for these purposes throughout the author’s institution, not just by the author:

1. Copies can be distributed electronically as well as in physical form for classroom teaching and internal training purposes.
2. Material can be included in coursework and courseware programs for use within the institution (but not in Massive Open Online Courses).
3. Articles can be included in applications for grant funding.
4. Theses and dissertations that contain embedded final published articles as part of the formal submission can be posted publicly by the awarding institution with DOI (for the articles that already indexed in the crossruff and have the DOI number) links back to the formal publication on the website of the journal.