Copyright and Licensing Policy

I. Copyright Ownership

Authors retain full copyright over their work published in Mos Historicus: A Critical Review of European History. By submitting to and publishing in the journal, authors grant Mos Historicus the exclusive right to first publication. All published works are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC 4.0).

II. License Terms

Under the CC BY-NC 4.0 third parties may copy, distribute, display, and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes only, provided that:

i. the original author and the original publication in Mos Historicus are properly credited,

ii. and any modifications, adaptations, or other changes to the original work are clearly indicated.

III. Images, Maps, and Illustrations Policy

i. Author Responsibility: Authors bear sole responsibility for securing all necessary written permissions for the reproduction and/or republication of any copyright-protected visual material included in their submission. This includes, but is not limited to, images, maps, diagrams, photographs, and archival records or documents.

ii. Evidence of permission: Upon submission, authors must be in a position to provide documentation demonstrating that:

-> written permission has been obtained from the rights holder or the rights holder’s authorised representative; or

-> the material is in the Public Domain; or

-> the material is made available under a Creative Commons licence that permits the intended use, and that the use complies with the terms of that licence.

iii. Captions and attribution: All visual material must be accompanied by a complete caption and clear source attribution, including any required copyright notice or credit line specified by the rights holder. Authors are responsible for the accuracy and completeness of this information.

iv. Visual material reproduced from scholarly publications: Permission to reproduce images previously published in journal articles, edited volumes, or monographs should not be presumed. Citation of the original publication does not in itself constitute permission to reproduce the image. Authors must ascertain: (1) the rights holder for the visual material (often distinct from the author and/or publisher of the publication in which it appears); (2) whether additional licences, conditions, or restrictions apply (for example, those imposed by an archive, museum, or other institution); and (3) the applicable terms of reuse. Where required, authors must obtain written permission from the rights holder and include the prescribed rights statement in the caption.

v. Third-party material and Open Access: The journal’s Open Access licence (CC BY-NC 4.0) applies to the article text and to authors’ original material, but it does not automatically extend to third-party content. Third-party material remains subject to the rights regime of the original rights holder unless explicitly stated otherwise (for example, where the material is in the public domain or released under a specified Creative Commons licence).

IV. Repository (Self-Archiving) Policy

Mos Historicus supports open access and the immediate  dissemination of scholarlyresearch through a zero-embargo self-archiving policy.

1. Self-Archiving & Repository Rights

Authors are permitted and encouraged to deposit any version of their work as follows:

i. Preprint: may be deposited at any time, including prior to submission;

ii. Accepted Manuscript and the final Version of Record (VoR): may be deposited immediately upon acceptance or publication, with no embargo period.

Deposits may be made in institutional repositories (such as the author’s university repository), disciplinary repositories (such as subject-specific archives in historical studies), or non-commercial open repositories (such as Zenodo), as well as on personal or departmental webpages.

2. Requirements

All deposited versions must include:

i. a full bibliographic citation of the article;

ii. a persistent link (URL or DOI) to the article on the Mos Historicus website;

iii. a clear statement acknowledging the original publication, as follows:“First published in Mos Historicus: A Critical Review of European History.”; and,

iv. (where applicable) licence information (CC BY-NC 4.0) consistent with that of the Version of Record.