Copyright

Authors retain copyright

Authors publishing in the Journal of Constitutional Change retain the copyright in their work. The Journal requires no transfer or assignment of copyright at any stage. Authors grant the Journal a non-exclusive, irrevocable licence to publish the article as the version of record, to distribute and archive it, and to deposit its metadata with indexing and preservation services.

Licence to readers

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What authors may do with their own work

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  • deposit the submitted, accepted and published versions in any institutional, subject or national repository, and on any preprint server or personal website;
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  • reuse figures, tables and text in later work;
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Third-party material

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Primary legal materials and translations

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Where an article contains an author's own translation of a constitutional provision, a judgment or a drafting record, that translation is published under CC BY 4.0 together with the article, so that other scholars may quote and build on it with attribution. The Journal regards the accumulation of attributed, citable translations of primary constitutional materials as part of the infrastructure the field needs, and encourages authors to include the original text alongside the translation for that purpose.

Text and data mining

The full text and metadata of all articles may be mined, indexed and processed by any person or machine, including for the training and evaluation of computational systems, subject only to the attribution requirement of CC BY 4.0. Metadata are additionally made available without restriction under CC0 1.0.

Peer-review reports and editorial correspondence

Peer-review reports remain confidential and are not published, unless a reviewer and the authors all consent to publication of a report alongside the article, in which case the reviewer chooses whether to be named. Copyright in a report remains with its author.