Transfer of Copyright Form

It is a condition of publication in The Social Educator that authors vest copyright in their articles to the Social Educators Association of Australia (SEAA) SEAA will, in return, grant the author an irrevocable non-exclusive licence to make use of their work, which gives the following rights:

  • the right to make copies of the article for their own personal use, including for their own classroom teaching use;
  • the right to make copies and distribute copies (including through e-mail) of the article to research colleagues, for the personal use by such colleagues (but not commercially or systematically, e.g. via an e-mail list or list serve);
  • the right to post a pre-print version of the article on Internet web sites including electronic pre-print servers, and to retain indefinitely such version on such servers or sites.
  • the right to post a revised personal version of the text of the final article (to reflect changes made in the peer review and editing process) on the author's personal or institutional web site or server;
  • the right to present the article at a meeting or conference and to distribute copies of such paper or article to the delegates attending the meeting;
  • for the author's employer, if the article is a 'work for hire', made within the scope of the author's employment, the right to use all or part of the information in (any version of) the article for other intra-company use (e.g. training);
  • patent and trademark rights and rights to any process or procedure described in the article;
  • the right to include the article in full or in part in a thesis or dissertation (provided that this is not to be published commercially);
  • the right to use the article or any part thereof in a printed compilation of works of the author, such as collected writings or lecture notes (subsequent to publication of the article in the journal); and
  • the right to prepare other derivative works, to extend the article into book-length form, or to otherwise re-use portions or excerpts in other works, with full acknowledgement of its original publication in The Social Educator.

By completing this Transfer of Copyright Form and submitting it electronically to the SEAA, I understand that I will be transferring copyright in the specified article to the SEAA and will be receiving an irrevocable non-exclusive licence giving me the rights listed above.

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* Please note that where articles are jointly authored, each author will need to electronically submit the Transfer of Copyright Form to the Publisher before the article can be accepted.

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