I am writing a review article on some target, and in one of the research papers one figure is reported. I want to add this figure to my review article. Can i do this without permission to the editor or I need permission. How to do it. Please answer.
After my own research, I recommend the following two options:
1. The best way to use figures and tables in a published source is to revise and combine them with something of your own. Because data is not subject to copyright. In this way, you only need to cite the source properly without asking for permission.
2. If you do need to ask for permission , check for the source copyright owner if they are included in Rightslink. If so, it is usually free to use 2-5 figures/tables and the application processes are all online and can be done within 2-5 mins.
Hope it helps.
Cheers,
Unless the figure is published under a Creative Commons License and/or you hold the copyright, yes. More importantly, you must properly attribute the source of the figure if it is not yours.
Write mail to editor and publisher to get permission to take figure
Yes, you need the permission of the publisher who may either give it directly or prompt you to the author for permission. You may have to specify why you need to copy the fig and where you want to publish the same.
Its depend on figures, if its chemical structure then yes according to scheme you can send application to editor, but in case on other figure editor will decide either its relevant or not.
You need permission from the publisher. Reuse of figures, tables etc for a non-profit purpose is free for most publishers. To get permission, go to the publisher website eg: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0926860X11007216 You will find permission & Reprints section (below title), click and fill the form. Same you can find in ACS website also (under tools).
Note that some publishers now require a fee for use of figures from one of their copyrighted publications.
I would try to make my own figure, although sometimes that's not possible, particularly if it includes experimental data or plots. Anyway, yes, you definitely need authorization.
As all the above contributors pointed out, yes you need permission, but you do not need permission to reproduce or recreate the figure on your own, even though a proper reference would be appropriate and fair.
Vangelis-
That depends on whether or not your (as an author) assigned copyrights to a publisher or other part. If so, rights to reproduce are relinquished. While most publishers are not likely to pursue authors, images that may have high value could be another thing.
Yes, you do; Editorials have online forms to request permision; however, sometimes you may skip this need by clearly stating in the caption that it was taken from... the ref.
Yes it is a must. If you don't take permission to reproduce the figure in your article, it will be plagiarism. You will have to seek permission depending on the journal policies (sometimes only referencing will also do) in which the figure is published and then also you will have to properly cite the reference also. Proper referencing is necessary even if you are quoting data from your own studies also.
After my own research, I recommend the following two options:
1. The best way to use figures and tables in a published source is to revise and combine them with something of your own. Because data is not subject to copyright. In this way, you only need to cite the source properly without asking for permission.
2. If you do need to ask for permission , check for the source copyright owner if they are included in Rightslink. If so, it is usually free to use 2-5 figures/tables and the application processes are all online and can be done within 2-5 mins.
Hope it helps.
Cheers,
to my understanding, it not permission that you need but acknowledging the author whose data/figure you are using,
I took some results from graphs ..I then replot graph by own...by I use results from other graphs...so should I have to take permission from Journal or other ???
I suggest the following permission :
To management,
I'm a co-author and I would like to use the figures XX from the paper YYY. The images are of interest because they explain interesting aspects. I will cite the original source correctly in my research.
You need to acknowledge and give reference to the article in your paper.
It is always better to contact the editor or author and get the permission to use the image in a publication to avoid any complication. If it is for internal circulation or a lecture you need to just acknowledge and give the ref while showing the fig/data
"Would you mind helping me about free access to Wiley copyright permission?"
In "Article Information" click in "Request Permissions" and fill in the form. A license number will be generated automatically.
Dear colleague,
I can speak only for myself, that you can take from my work if you are naturally compatible with your interest and research, not only graphs, figures .... but everything else I have interest!
They are in my bibliography-OR
Electronic form!
regards
Jasenko
Dear colleague,
And of course access to my work is free and can be used freely provided that the source and citation of other authors who have taken parts of their works, according to the rules of writing and proper citation of scientific research in the field of publications!
Best wishes
Jasenko
if supervisor wrote manuscript using 4 out of 7 figures of the student, just copy paste the figure, is it plagiarism ? To my knowledge, copy paste as it is is plagiarism, even though the supervisor wrote the student name as co-author, moreover, thesis is a copyright of University, right ? please give me enlightment thanks
You have to take the necessary permission letter from the journal in which your research paper is published from which you want to use the figure. You have to submit a copy of that permission letter at the time of submission of your review paper to its journal.
Sure. You need permission. You can open the home page of that journal, you can go to the "permission" link. It will lead to the CCC,: Copyright Clearance Centre, there you can fill the details of the figure after login. Very easily you will get the permission.
Some may refuse particularly in the case of figures! It can be rejected and may not be permitted also. However, making a request is a must if you want to avoid copyright litigation.
For copying exact figure, one needs permission however, no permission is required to use the data points established in that graph. So the best way will be to regenerate the figure and then cite the source. There are so many commercial software available that can help to regenerate figures and graphs. One such example is getdatadigitizer which can help you to extract the data points. For most such software, you may have a free trial version for limited time. In some cases, you can read the data directly from the figure even without any data extractor. Once you have the data points, make your own table of data and plot it the way you want with any software like Matlab, EES, C+ or Fortran etc. Be careful that you still need to cite the source.
But the further question is How to get such permission??!
Is payment a mandatory for springer publications? I would be thankful for any help.
In our review paper, the publisher was extremely helpful in navigating copyright issues. However, figures from published journals are ok as long as they are cited. Art figures of designs, products, or I are copyrighted. I typically, consult with our technical writer and lawyer, when I am doubtful.
Permission is necessary from the publisher. It's best to modify sufficiently to avoid this issue, as well as this alteration, will augment paper quality.
Is it necessary to obtain permission to create graphs using the data in the result tables? Is it enough to cite the source?
i have the same problem, so i decide to use data and plot my own graph or table and citing the source. i hope this help you too.
It depends upon the journal in which the review published. Many Open-access journal make their articles available on line for other researcher to copy, print, using data, etc.. However, if the journal was non-open access this may be not acceptable.
Regards
This is helpful info. Thanks.
I was just looking in rightslink to see whether it was feasible to re-use a figure from a published article. For the journal I selected, it was free to use up to 3 figures.
The only trick was that the option to select was "reprint in a journal". When I read this initially I thought that this would be for the full article. However there followed options to select the sub-part of the article that you wanted to re-use.
All that said..... the idea of re-creating a similar figure from source data has its attractions.
HI Guys,
I have found one interesting document which has answer of this question. If a figure is being reused by someone than he/she has to take permission from publisher. How can one get this permission, here is a link which will help you in this regard.
https://www.ep.liu.se/authorinf/pdf/reuse.pdf
I think u should take that figure without permission.There is no copyright for data.
Hi everyone. I want to reproduce a figure that I found on a published paper (create my own figure using the data that I extracted from the published figure). Can I have copyright issues if I do this?
Cheers.
https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/access_purchase/rights_and_permissions
Hi,
I need to reuse a figure in my thesis which is taken from an article which has an open access for non commercial use. However, the table which I want to use in my thesis has cited from another book resource. In this case, do I need to take permission from the journal /author who has created that table? Also, I cannot access to this book, then how should I cite and take a permission ? Could you share your knowledge, please?
Thank you
Fatma Z. Kocak You can cite the original source and use the image in your thesis. If you want to be more secured, you can ask the journal article author whether he got permission to use that image or not. I think taking consent from the secondary source makes no sense.
https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/research-data
Principles
The following principles underpin Elsevier’s research data policy:
- Research data should be made available free of charge to all researchers wherever possible and with minimal reuse restrictions.
- Researchers should remain in control of how and when their research data is accessed and used, and should be recognised and valued for the investments they make in creating their research data and making it available.
- Expectations and practices around research data vary between disciplines and discipline-specific requirements need to be taken into account.
- Enabling effective reuse of research data is a shared aim and all stakeholders should work together to pursue this collectively, to find efficiencies and avoid duplication of effort.
- Platforms, publications, tools and curation services can enhance research data by improving their discoverability, use, reuse, and citation.
- Where others add value and/or incur significant cost in enhancing research data to enable its reuse, these contributions need to be recognized and valued.
With the permission of the author and proper citations in the literature, of course, it is possible to copy or cite smaller parts of a work!
Whenever a figure, table or equation is to be used of some other author, the best way is to reference it in your research article. In case of text, I think it should also be referenced but if you are writing the complete text as it is then it is better to write it inside double quotes.
You just need to use and put a reference on its caption - "adopted from this and that". That's all.
http://www.copyright.com/
This website is very useful to get permissions from the journals to use images or figures. They also get back very quickly by email after you apply, you need to keep a copy of the permission page.
I hope it would be helpful.
You need to take permission from the author and cite reference at proper position. Else u can modify the figure completely!
I recommended the answer provided by Vard Antinyan
Best Regards Omprakash Tanwar
You can use the figure but make sure you reference it. Follow the method given by Vard Antinyan. It is the appropriate way to do it
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