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Rights and New Business Development

The department provides a number of services relating to the rights of the Oxford Journals, including:

  • facilities to obtain permission to reproduce content from the Oxford Journals
  • copyright advice and information for learned society partners, authors and their institutions
  • translation rights for the Oxford Journals

The department is staffed from 8.30-17.00 (GMT), from Monday to Friday. To contact the department at any other time, please send an email message or a fax.

PERMISSIONS

Oxford University Press is pleased to announce our partnership with the Copyright Clearance Center to meet your licensing needs.

With Copyright Clearance Center’s Rightslink ® service it’s faster and easier than ever before to secure permission from OUP titles to be republished in a coursepack, book, CD-ROM/DVD, brochure or pamphlet, journal or magazine, newsletter, newspaper, make a photocopy, or translate.

  • Simply visit the Oxford Journals homepage and locate the content you wish to reuse by searching, or navigating the journal's archive.
  • Click on "Request Permissions" within the table of contents and/or in the "services" section of the article’s abstract to open the following page:
  • Select the way you would like to reuse the content
  • Create an account or log in to your existing account
  • Accept the terms and conditions and permission will be granted

For questions about using the Rightslink service, please contact Customer Support via phone (001) 877 622 5543 (toll free) or (001) 978 777 9929, or email Rightslink customer care

LICENSING AND NEW BUSINESS

Should you be interested in licensing the right to include Oxford Journal content in your products and/or services please send us an email message or a fax.

TRANSLATIONS/LOCAL EDITIONS OF OXFORD JOURNALS

We license rights for local editions of the Oxford Journals to be produced in more than a dozen countries. Local editions are often translated and contain selected excerpts from the original journal in addition to any local news, views and editorials that are approved.

We would be interested in enquiries to produce local editions of any of the journals on our list. Please submit your enquiry to us here: email message or a fax.

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS

When publishing an article in Oxford Journals, for the majority of the titles on our list* you are not required to assign copyright to Oxford University Press and/or the learned society concerned. In addition to this, you retain a wide range of rights concerning future re-use of the material as detailed in the Publication Rights Policies section on our Web site (see url below this section).

For the uses specified in that section, please note that there is no need for you to apply for written permission from Oxford University Press in advance. Please go ahead with the use ensuring that a full acknowledgment is made to the original source of the material including the journal name, volume, issue, page numbers, year of publication, title of article and to Oxford University Press and/or the learned society.

The only exception to this is for the re-use of material for commercial purposes, as defined in the information available via the above url. Permission for this kind of re-use is required and can be obtained by using Rightslink by completing the process described above.

The following additional policy information and guidelines are provided for the benefit of our authors: