IABS Publishing’s Fair Use Policy 

For ALL Publications 

Although all authors and editors of IABS Publishing agree to an Author’s Warranty and Transfer of Copyright Agreement, IABS Publishing supports a Fair Use Policy allowing authors and editors to:  

IABS PUBLISHING AUTHORS, UNDER FAIR USE CAN: 

• Post the final typeset PDF (which includes the title page, table of contents and other front materials, and the copyright statement) of their chapter or article (NOT THE ENTIRE BOOK OR JOURNAL ISSUE), on the author or editor’s secure personal website and/or their university repository site. 

• IABS Publishing fully complies with the open access requirements of UKRI, Wellcome, and NIHR. Where required by their funder, authors retain the right to distribute their author accepted manuscript (AAM), such as via an institutional and/or subject repository (e.g. Europe PMC), under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license per IABS Copyright Transfer Agreement.  

Open Access Publications 

Authors and editors of IABS Publishing open access publications sign an Author Warranty. The warranty portion ensures that materials submitted to IABS Publishing for consideration are original and have not been published elsewhere previously. Moreover, it ensures that any necessary permissions for the use of copyrighted materials (figures, photographs, etc.) are secured by the author(s) before publication. Open Access publications carry the CC BY 4.0 licensing arrangement. Under this licensing, authors and editors are allowed the freedoms below, so long as they give credit to the original author(s). 

Once the work has been formally accepted and planned for publication under open access by IABS Publishing or when it is formally published under open access by IABS Publishing, then authors will be welcome and encouraged to post the work wherever they wish (pre-publication or post-publication posting). 

FOR POST-ACCEPTED AND POST-PUBLICATION ARTICLES/CHAPTERS, AUTHORS CAN: 

• Post the full final typeset PDF of their chapter or article on the author or editor’s personal website and/or their university repository site.  

• Post the article or chapter on general open access sites for free download and distribution, such as ResearchGate, arXiv, Academia.edu, SSRN, or society-sponsored sites.  

• Use in a coursepack without having to secure the consent of IABS Publishing.  

• Be given to a commercial third party to post, copy, distribute, sell or give for free or for any monetary consideration.  

• Republish their chapter or article in a future book or journal publication.  

When sharing the article or chapter, please be sure to link back to the published version on IABS Publishing’s website. Please note that the final published version of the chapter or article should overwrite any pre-publication posting.  

Digital Preservation 

IABS Publishing is committed to ensuring that our published content remains accessible and usable to our customers, regardless of any technological or other disruption. As such, IABS Publishing partners with EBSCOHost for content archiving. 

Contact: 

For further information, please consult the Editorial Policy. 

For any extenuating circumstances, authors can contact the Intellectual Property & Contracts Department using the contact information listed below. 

IABS Publishing
Intellectual Property & Contracts Department
inasbus2016@gmail.com