Access, Copyright and License

Access

There will be a print version and an e-version of the journal.

This journal allows readers to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of its (e-version) articles and to use them for any other lawful purpose.

The e-version will be open access to INSEE members. It will be kept open to non-members also till any further changes in this policy.

Print version will be available to subscribers on payment of duly prescribed fee (see, Rates).

Copyright

The author(s) retain copyright on work published by INSEE unless specified otherwise.

Licensing and publishing rights

​Author(s) of work published by INSEE are required to ​​transfer non-exclusive publishing right to INSEE of the definitive work in any format, language and medium, for any lawful purpose.

Authors who publish in Ecology, Economy and Society will release their articles under the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. This license allows anyone to copy and distribute the article for non-commercial purposes provided that appropriate attribution is given.

For details of the rights that the authors grant users of their work, see the "human-readable summary" of the license, with a link to the full license. (Note that "you" refers to a user, not an author, in the summary.)

The authors retain the non-exclusive right to do anything they wish with the published article(s), provided attribution is given to the Ecology, Economy and Society—the INSEE Journal with details of the original publication, as set out in the official citation of the article published in the journal. The retained right specifically includes the right to post the article on the authors’ or their institution’s websites or in institutional repositories.

In case of re-publishing a previously published work, author may note that earlier publication may have taken place a license different from Creative Commons. In all such cases of re-publishing, we advise the authors to consult the applicable licence at article level.