Permissions

This page explains when and how third parties may reuse material published in Research and Education, and how authors should obtain permission to include third-party material in their submissions.

Reuse of REd content by third parties

All articles published in Research and Education are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Third parties may copy, redistribute and adapt the work, provided that they:

  1. give appropriate credit, including the citation of the original article and a link to the license;
  2. do not use the work for commercial purposes;
  3. license any adaptation under the same terms.

Author responsibilities for third-party material

Authors are responsible for obtaining written permission to reproduce any copyrighted material (text excerpts beyond fair use, figures, photographs, tables, instruments) from the original rights holder, before submitting the manuscript. Permission documents must be retained by the author and made available to the Editorial Office upon request.

Public-domain material

The duration of copyright varies by jurisdiction. In most jurisdictions, including Eurpean Union and the United States, the copyright protection expires 70 years after the death of the author.. Public-domain status should be verified for each specific work and jurisdiction. The Cornell University Copyright Information Center is one resource that keeps an up-to-date overview.

Third-party AI-generated content

When a manuscript reproduces AI-generated images, figures or text from a third-party system, authors must:

  1. disclose the AI system used;
  2. check that the provider’s terms of service permit the intended use;
  3. cite the AI system in line with APA 7th edition guidance on AI sources.

Authors remain fully responsible for the integrity, accuracy and originality of any AI-assisted content.

Permission requests

Permission requests for content published in Research and Education should be sent to office@researchandeducation.ro, with the subject “Permissions”.