AGREEMENT FOR CONTRIBUTOR TO THE GUIDE TO DAVIS
Dear Contributor,
We are happy to receive your contribution to our publication: The Guide to Davis (`the Work’)
Edited by: Dr. Andy Jones (`the General Editor‘) of [address]
Your contribution will be published on the following terms:
- You will contribute a chapter, section, description, review or reflection on a Davis subject, mutually agreed upon with yourself and Dr. Andy Jones in the Work. The Contribution will be delivered to the Dr. Andy Jones no later than _______________ [date] together with any illustrations, photographs, drawings, charts or graphs in a form suitable for reproduction as agreed with the Publishers. That said, no visuals are required or expected.
Should you fail to deliver the Contribution by this date or by such other date as may have been agreed in writing by the Publishers, Clause 8 hereof shall not be applicable to you.
- You as the Author of the Contribution warrant to us (hereinafter called `the Publishers’) that the Contribution is original to yourself, that it has not hitherto been published in any form, and is not a violation or infringement of any existing copyright or license or of any other right of any other person or party whatsoever. You undertake to indemnify the Publishers against any claims, any loss, damage or costs, including any legal costs properly incurred, occasioned to the Publishers in consequence of any breach of this warranty or arising out of any claim alleging that your Contribution constitutes a breach of this warranty.
You accept responsibility for obtaining permission for publication in the Contribution at your expense of any textual and/or illustrative material in which copyright vests in any other person or party and will deliver to the Publishers for safe keeping any documents relating to the granting of such permissions.
- For the consideration mentioned in Clause 8, you, by way of assignment of present or future copyright, hereby assign to the Publishers the entire copyright and all other rights of a like nature in and to the Contribution throughout the world (including for the avoidance of doubt all electronic publishing rights) for the full legal term of copyright and all renewals, revivals and extensions thereof, and the Publishers shall have the exclusive right during such period to publish, and to license for publication, the Contribution in whole and in part in all editions forms and media in the English language and in any translations without limitation.
- You may republish the Contribution in whole or in part at no charge without the Publishers’ prior written permission, provided that proper acknowledgment is given to the Publishers in such republication.
- The Contribution may appear in the first and subsequent editions.
The General Editor shall have the right to make any revision to the Contribution which he may deem, desirable in the interests of uniformity and style of the Work. The General Editor shall have the final decision on the inclusion or omission of the Contribution in or from the first and any subsequent editions of the Work.
- To reduce the length and expense of production time, the Publishers may agree with the General Editor to dispense with proof corrections by you in which event the Publishers and their printers will ensure the correction of any typographical errors. Accordingly the Publishers request your co-operation in making all reasonable efforts to ensure that all required amendments and corrections are incorporated in the final completed text before it is submitted in the required form to the Publishers.
Should proofs of the Contribution (and finished artwork) be provided to you, you undertake to read, check and correct them and return them to the Publishers within 14 days of their receipt, failing which the Publishers may consider the proofs and artwork passed for press by you.
- The Publishers will absorb the cost of your corrections.
- As full consideration for the copyright and all other rights in the Contribution assigned to the Publishers in Clause 3 and subject to the terms of Clause 5 as regards acceptance of the Contribution and any revised Contribution the Publishers will pay you on publication in the form of an electronic copy of The Guide to Davis.
- The Publishers shall include your name with due prominence on the list of Contributors as determined by the Publishers as the author (or co-author as the case may be) of the Contribution.
- You will receive one free electronic copy of the Work on publication. In addition you are entitled to purchase further copies directly from the Publishers at 25% off the retail price of the electronic edition, and 20% off the retail price of the paperback edition.
- This letter of agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with United States and California laws.
- You are reminded to submit a 50 word or shorter bio to the General Editor together with the material for your contribution.
I/We confirm our agreement to the above terms.
Yours sincerely
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Date: …………………………………………….
(for the Publishers)
COPYRIGHT TRANSFER AND PUBLICATION AGREEMENT
In order to publish your article we need your agreement in writing. Please take a moment to read the terms of this agreement, sign the form and return it to us as quickly as possible.
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- By signing this form, you (the author(s) or other copyright owner) hereby transfer your copyright to us (the publisher). In particular, this means that you grant us the exclusive right, for the full term of copyright and any renewals/extensions thereof, both to reproduce and/or distribute your article (including the abstract) ourselves throughout the world in printed, electronic or any other medium, and in turn to authorise others (including Reproduction Rights Organisations such as the Copyright Licensing Agency and the Copyright Clearance Center) to do the same. You agree that we may publish your article in the journal named above, and that we may sell or distribute it within the journal, on its own, or with other related material. In return, we agree to publish your article at our expense.
- You warrant (i.e. promise) that the article is your original work, has not previously been published; and is not currently under consideration by another journal. If it contains material which is someone else’s copyright, you promise that you have obtained the unrestricted permission of the copyright owner (please attach evidence of this) and that the material is clearly identified and acknowledged within the text. You also promise that the article does not, to the best of your knowledge, contain anything which is libellous, illegal, or infringes anyone’s copyright or other rights.
- [You assert your Moral Right to be identified as the author, and] We promise that we will respect your rights as the author(s). That is, we will make sure that your name(s) is/are always clearly associated with the article and, while you do allow us to make necessary editorial changes, we will not make any substantial alteration to your article without consulting you.] We will have your article fairly reviewed by [at least two impartial referees, and will let you know the outcome as quickly as possible.] When the article is accepted, we undertake to publish it as soon as we reasonably can. If it is rejected, this agreement is automatically cancelled and all the rights come back to you. On publication, we will send you [[number] free offprints][a free copy]. We will do everything we reasonably can to maximise the visibility of the journal, and of your article within it.
- Copyright is transferred to us, and we will indicate this in the copyright line which appears on your article. However, we grant back to you the right to use your own article (provided you acknowledge the published original in standard bibliographic citation form) in the following ways, as long as you do not sell it [or give it away] in ways which would conflict directly with our commercial business interests. You are free to use your article for the internal educational or other purposes of your own institution or company; mounted on your own or your institution’s website; [posted to free public servers of preprints and/or articles in your subject area]; or in whole or in part, as the basis for your own further publications or spoken presentations.
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Please return this form by electronic copy to Andy Jones at aojones@gmail.com. Thanks!