Creative Commons licences

JoCAT is a Gold Open Access journal. Due to the funding provided by ANZACATA, JoCAT is freely available, and contributors are not charged open access fees. 

JoCAT requires individual authors and creators to retain copyright of their work and grant access under a Creative Commons licence. This way the contributions published in JoCAT can be downloaded, reproduced, displayed, performed and/or shared, for non-commercial purposes only, without prior permission, on the express condition that the content is not altered in any way and is properly and fully attributed to individual authors, creators and the journal. 

About Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a non-profit organisation that helps overcome legal obstacles to the sharing of knowledge and creativity to address the world’s pressing challenges. It provides Creative Commons licenses and public domain tools that give every person and organisation in the world a free, simple and standardised way to grant copyright permissions for creative and academic works; ensure proper attribution; and allow others to copy, distribute, and make use of those works.

About CC licenses

Creative Commons licenses give everyone from individual creators to large institutions a standardised way to grant the public permission to use their creative work under copyright law. From the reuser’s perspective, the presence of a Creative Commons license on a copyrighted work answers the question, “What can I do with this work?”

The type of CC license 

On behalf of its authors and creators, JoCAT takes out the CC BY-NC-SA-4.0 license for each published submission. This license allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, for non-commercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. 

CC BY-NC-SA includes the following elements:
BY  – Credit must be given to the creator
NC  – Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted
SA  – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

What you need to consider

The CC license cannot be revoked. This means once the CC license is applied to your material, anyone who receives it may rely on that license for as long as the material is protected by copyright, even if you later stop distributing it.

You must own or control copyright in the work. Only the copyright holder or someone with express permission from the copyright holder (i.e JoCAT) can apply a CC license to a copyrighted work. If you created a work in the scope of your job, you may not be the holder of the copyright, and you must inform JoCAT of this fact. 

If you feel you need to learn more about this CC licence, please visit the Creative Commons website

What the author/creator needs to do

JoCAT applies a CC-license to your work on your behalf. Your consent will be sought in the Author Sign-off Contract prior to publication of an edition. It will be clearly stated in the journal, on the imprint page and on each article, that it is Creative Commons licensed:

Imprint page:
© 2024. Each work published in JoCAT is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA-4.0 license.

On each article/contribution:
© 2024. This work is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA-4.0 license.

It will include this icon: