Rights to Authors

Authors are the owners of the copyrights to their works, unless the authors, as a condition of employment, have agreed to transfer copyright to their employer. Articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license.

Basic policies for eScholarship are delineated here. All eScholarship content may be browsed and downloaded at no cost and with no access restrictions. Once an article is published in an eScholarship Repository journal or peer-reviewed series, it may not be removed.

Rights of California Digital Library

The California Digital Library has the right to view and display, store and copy (for preservation purposes), and distribute all eScholarship Repository content. All eScholarship content may be browsed and downloaded at no cost and with no access restrictions. Once an article is published in an eScholarship journal or peer-reviewed series, it may not be removed.