Copyright & Licensing Policy

Copyright & Licensing Policy

This policy defines copyright ownership, publication rights, licensing conditions, and permitted uses of content published in the European Hebrew Journal (EHJ).

Copyright Ownership

Authors publishing in EHJ retain copyright ownership of their work.

Submission and publication do not transfer copyright ownership to the publisher, editorial office, or journal.

Authors remain the copyright holders of:

• articles;
• reviews;
• translations;
• critical editions;
• datasets (where applicable);
• supplementary materials.

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Rights Granted to EHJ

By publishing in EHJ, authors grant the journal:

• the right of first publication;
• the non-exclusive right to distribute, archive, preserve, and display published works;
• permission to preserve published material within journal systems and scholarly repositories.

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Creative Commons License

Unless explicitly stated otherwise, all articles published in EHJ are distributed under the:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0)

Under this license, users may:

• copy and redistribute material in any medium or format;
• adapt, transform, and build upon published work;
• share content for academic, educational, and other lawful purposes;
• reuse published material with proper attribution.

Users must:

• provide appropriate credit to the author(s);
• provide a reference to the original publication;
• indicate whether modifications have been made;
• provide a link to the license where appropriate.

The full license text is available at:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Author Self-Archiving Policy

Authors may archive and disseminate their work through:

• institutional repositories;
• disciplinary repositories;
• university websites;
• personal academic websites;
• scholarly networking platforms;
• open-access repositories.

Authors may share:

• submitted versions;
• accepted manuscripts;
• published versions,

provided that original publication in EHJ is acknowledged.

Third-Party Materials

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce:

• copyrighted images;
• manuscript reproductions;
• photographs;
• tables;
• maps;
• archival materials;
• previously published content.

Submission of a manuscript constitutes confirmation that all necessary permissions have been obtained.

Attribution Requirements

Reuse of EHJ publications must include:

• author name(s);
• article title;
• journal title;
• publication year;
• DOI;
• citation to the original publication.

Repository Deposit and Indexing

EHJ permits the deposit of published content in repositories, databases, indexing services, and institutional archives in accordance with this policy and the applicable Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

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Copyright Infringement

Suspected copyright violations may result in:

• editorial investigation;
• correction requests;
• withdrawal of content;
• retraction where appropriate.

EHJ reserves the right to take editorial action in accordance with its publication ethics policies.

Exceptions

Specific licensing arrangements may apply to:

• invited contributions;
• commissioned translations;
• special issues;
• reproduced historical materials.

By submitting a manuscript to EHJ, the author confirms that he or she has read and agrees to the Copyright & Licensing Policy of the journal and agrees to publication under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Any exception will be clearly indicated in the published work.