Copyright and Licensing Policy

European Data Quarterly (EDQ) is an open access, peer-reviewed journal for policy-relevant data. EDQ aims to foster data sharing and re-use in order to accelerate scientific discovery and potentiall increase effectiveness, efficiency and transparency of policy making in the public and corporate domains. In light of this, it is the assumption of EDQ that scholars who publish their research data in the journal, wish their work to be available as freely and as widely as possible through theisopen access publishing channel. The publisher therefore uses a number of depositing, indexing, and archiving services as described here.

Authors who publish with EDQ will retain all intellectual property rights, including moral rights in their work. Data papers/metadata accompanying the research data, including the abstract describing the research data, will be licenced to the public under 

 Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

EDQ  allows readers to read, download, copy, print, search, or link to the full texts of its articles. Readers will be able to share and adapt the material only as long as they give appropriate credit, use the material for non-commercial purposes only and only if the material is distributed under the same license as the original. You can find more information on Creative Commons at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode

The same licence applies to research data published as supplementary material alongside the data paper. EDQ allows readers to read, download, copy, print, search, or link to the research data. Readers will be able to share and adapt the research data on the conditions that they give appropriate credit, use the data for non-commercial purposes only and distribute the data under the same license as the original.

It is the responsibility of the author of the data paper to verify that the original license pertaining to the research data is compatible with the subsequent issuance by the EDQ of that data under the CC 4.0 BY-NC-SA license.

Users who want to use the material on EDQ for commercial purposes should contact EDQ directly using this contact form. Any commercial use of the author’s work requires the permission of the author and any aspects of the work which are the property of EDQ, if any, requires permission from EDQ.

Please contact the European Data Quarterly if you have any questions regarding this copyright and licensing statement.