Permitted Use
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Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of articles published in journals of the Ecological Society of America for personal use or educational use within one's home institution is granted to ESA members without fee, provided that the first page or initial screen of a display includes the notice "Copyright by the Ecological Society of America," along with the full citation, including the name of the author(s). Copyrights for components of a work owned by others than ESA must be honored. Authors may post their articles to their personal or home institution’s website or institutional repository and may make and distribute photocopies of such articles. Instructors may post up to 10 articles from ESA publications to a publicly available class website, or an unlimited number of articles to a website or other electronic medium with access restricted to their class. Interlibrary loan is permitted so long as U.S. copyright regulations on fair use are observed and all interlibrary loan is done by print or fax rather than in a digital format. To copy or transmit otherwise, to republish, to post on public servers, to redistribute to lists, or to use any component of an article from an ESA journal in other works, or to use such an article for commercial or promotional purposes, requires prior specific permission and possible fee.

For permissions for specific journals, click on the separate “Get Permissions” links below:

Ecology

Ecological Monographs

Ecological Applications

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Questions may be directed to the Permissions Editor: [email protected].

Prohibitions on Certain Uses
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