The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & Ireland
Electronic Publishing Policy
Journals Online
The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & Ireland (MSGBI) makes its journals
available in electronic form via the Internet:
Clay Minerals (ISSN 0009-8558) and Mineralogical Magazine (ISSN 0026-461X) are
provided online through both Ingenta http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/minsoc/cm
and http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/minsoc/mag) and through GeoScienceWorld
(www.geoscienceworld.org).
MSGBI is also a participating publisher in Elements (ISSN 1811-5209) and this is
available online through GeoscienceWorld (www.geoscienceworld.org). Society
members can access the online version of Elements by using visiting
www.elementsmagazine.org and using their Society username and password. Details
from admin@minersoc.org. Copies of Elements are provided by the Society to library
subscribers to Mineralogical Magazine and Clay Minerals.
Access
Titles, authors, and abstracts of articles in Clay Minerals and Mineralogical Magazine are
available to all, at no cost, on both the Ingenta and GeoScienceWorld websites. A
subscription is required to view the full text of articles on both sites.
MinAbs Online
Content (from 1982 to 2008) from MinAbs Online which ceased publication at the end of
2008, is available free of charge to all users at http://previews.georef.org/dbtwwpd/MinAbs/minabs.htm.
Electronic-only subscriptions
Subscriptions to electronic-only versions of MSGBI journals are available. Please contact
the MSGBI office (admin@minersoc.org) for price information.
Online formats
Papers in Clay Minerals and Mineralogical Magazine available through the Ingenta
platform are in pdf format.
Papers in Clay Minerals and Mineralogical Magazine available through
GeoScienceWorld are in both pdf and html formats. The html version has reference
linking, downloadable, high-resolution figures and tables, the ability to export
bibliographic references to various citation managers, and searching of the full text.
Back issues
Access to all electronic back issues online is included in a current subscription.
Authentication for online access
For material on the Ingenta website, access is provided following authentication by
means of IP or range of IP addresses for institutional subscribers and ID + password for
members.
Access to material hosted on GeoScienceWorld requires a subscription to
GeoScienceWorld. The method of authentication is by IP address.
Proxy servers
Organizations that network their environment with a proxy server may register the IP
address of the proxy server for authentication provided they limit the access to the
authorized sites and users by technical methods, such as router setting, or some other
means. The proxy server must be owned by the end-user, not a subscription agency or
reseller. Access must not be provided via an open proxy server.
Number of concurrent users
MSGBI places no restrictions on the number of concurrent users.
Availability
MSGBI and its suppliers shall use all reasonable endeavors to provide 24 hour electronic
availability of its online journals, but if access is suspended or interrupted or a fault or
defect occurs which prevents access to the server, MSGBI shall accept no liability. The
User is responsible for all charges associated with accessing the content, including any
computer equipment, telephone or Internet connections and access software. MSGBI
reserves the right to refuse access to any individual, network or User at any time.
Sites
A `site’ is defined as a single contiguous geographical location in a specific city or locale,
e.g. The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. All IP addresses within the range
supplied by the end-user can access the electronic version. Such a site would normally
have been covered by a single subscription to the paper version. The Society will
consider applications to network its content over multiple sites which are not contiguous
but which are part of a single institution. Contact the Society office
(admin@minersoc.org).
Licenses
A signed license agreement is not required for online access. However, all subscribers are
expected to follow MSGBI’s Electronic Publishing Policies.
Discontinued Subscriptions
If an organization discontinues its subscription, it will continue to have online access to
those volumes to which it subscribed on the Ingenta website. The policies for
GeoScienceWorld are given in the subscriber’s Site License Agreement.
Grace period
MSGBI grants a grace period after a subscription has expired in order for the next year's
subscription to be received. The grace period is generally a time period that covers up to
3 months. However, there may be an additional fee charged for late renewals.
Usage Report
Ingenta provides usage reports for Clay Minerals and Mineralogical Magazine to
individual institutions. Please contact your Ingenta representative for details. Usage
reports are also available to subscribers of GeoScienceWorld.
Use of Published Works Online
Material from Clay Minerals and Mineralogical Magazine on the Ingenta and
GeoScienceWorld websites may be downloaded (one machine readable copy and one
print copy per page) for personal, non-commercial use only. A subscriber may not:
(a) sell, distribute, license, rent, further reproduce, transmit, modify,
adapt, perform, display (including adaptations/displays such as by
"framing"), or otherwise exploit the material, or any element of it, for
any commercial purpose;
(b) make the material, or any element of it, available by any means to
persons other than authorized users (but see our ‘Open Access policy’
below);
(c) make the material, or any element of it, available on, or by,
electronic bulletin boards, news groups, Web sites, FTP or any other
means of posting or transmitting material on the Internet, an on-line
service or wide area network (but see our ‘Open Access policy’ below);
(e) store in electronic or any other form, any significant portion of the
material (but see our ‘Open Access policy’ below);
(d) remove or obscure the MSGBI's copyright notice from the material
including hard-copy prints-out;
(e) use the material to create any derivative work, product or service, or
merge the material with any other product, database, or service;
(f) alter, amend, modify, translate, or change the material;
(g) undertake any activity which may have a damaging effect on
MSGBI's ability to achieve revenue through selling and marketing the
material (but see our ‘Open Access policy’ below);
(h) otherwise use the material supplied by MSGBI in a manner that
would infringe the copyright or other proprietary rights contained
within it; or
(i) make the material or any part of it available by remote access to any
person other than authorized users
An "authorized user" of an institutional subscriber is:
(a) every member of staff employed by or otherwise accredited by the
subscriber;
(b) every student accredited to the subscriber for the purposes of fulltime or part-time attendance;
(c) individual members of the public registered as users of the
subscriber's library or information service; and
(d) individual members of the public permitted to use the subscriber's
library or information services; in each case who are permitted general
access to the Network by the Licensee.
Subscribers shall cause all authorized users to abide by all of the terms and conditions of
these policies. In all other cases, only the subscriber is permitted to access the paid
subscription service materials
Subscribers found in violation of these policies may have immediate revocation of access
to these sites, as well as any other applicable civil or criminal penalties. Similarly,
sharing a subscriber password with a non-subscriber or otherwise making the paid
subscription service available to third parties is strictly prohibited, and may subject the
subscriber participating in such activities to immediate revocation of access to the paid
subscription services; and, the subscriber and any third party, to any other applicable civil
or criminal penalties under copyright or other laws.
Copyright and basic permissions
Much of the materials contained on the MSGBI website and in its journals are protected
under copyright and other laws. Copyright of the materials contained on the MSGBI
website, including, but not limited to, the textual material, artwork, photographs,
computer software, audio and visual elements, is owned by The Mineralogical Society of
Great Britain & Ireland unless otherwise stated. In addition, copyright in the selection,
arrangement and coordination of materials in this website is owned exclusively by
MSGBI.
All materials on this site protected by copyright law may not be reproduced, distributed,
transmitted, displayed, published or broadcast without the prior written permission of the
Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & Ireland. Trademark, copyright or other notice
may not be altered or removed any from copies of the content. The Society has partnered
with Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) to make it easy for you to secure permissions to
reuse our content. Please visit www.copyright.com and enter the title for which you are
requesting permission in the ‘Get Permission' search box. Further assistance may be
obtained from admin@minersoc.org.
Inter Library Loan (ILL)
MSGBI allows libraries to make a single copy of an article from their collection. The
copy may be made from either the paper edition or the electronic edition. The library is
not allowed to forward the electronic edition; rather the library must scan the copy they
made, and send that digital copy to the requesting library.
A library is allowed to copy 5 articles from a single title per year for ILL purposes. For
the 6th and succeeding copies the library must pay a copyright fee to the Copyright
Licensing Agency (http://www.cla.co.uk).
If the library supplies articles for for-profit clients, such fulfillment is counted separately
from the above and the copyright fee must be paid for each article.
Open-access and self-archiving
Visit the Society’s webpage http://www.minersoc.org/open-access.html for details of our
policy in relation to Open Access.