Copyright and The Clay Minerals Society
The Clay Minerals Society (CMS) owns the copyright on all material published in ‘Clays and
Clay Minerals’ and The Clay Minerals Society Workshop Volumes. Works prepared by U.S.
government employees in the course of their work are in the public domain and are not
copyrighted by CMS.
CMS obtains copyright ownership from authors as a professional service. CMS's holding of the
copyright centralizes the process and allows permission to be given even if the author(s) can no
longer be located. This also prevents materials from becoming unusable by the community
because of uncertainty about who holds the copyright. Anyone wanting to reproduce articles,
figures, tables, etc. need only contact CMS for permission to do so. There is no charge for
reproducing materials in most cases.
If you are the author of the CMS-copyrighted material, you retain
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the right to make copies of the article for your own personal use, including for your own
classroom teaching use;
the right to make copies and distribute copies (including through e-mail) of the article to
research colleagues, for the personal use by such colleagues (but not commercially or
systematically, e.g. via an e-mail list or list serve);
the right to post a revised personal version of the text of the final article (to reflect
changes made in the peer review process) on the author's personal or institutional web
site or server, with a link to the journal home page (on www.clays.org);
the right to present the article at a meeting or conference and to distribute copies of such
paper or article to the delegates attending the meeting;
for the author’s employer, if the article is a ‘work for hire’, made within the scope of
the author’s employment, the right to use all or part of the information in (any version
of) the article for other intra-company use (e.g. training);
patent and trademark rights and rights to any process or procedure described in the
article;
the right to include the article in full or in part in a thesis or dissertation (provided that
this is not to be published commercially);
the right to use the article or any part thereof in a printed compilation of works of the
author, such as collected writings or lecture notes (subsequent to publication of the
article in the journal); and
the right to prepare other derivative works, to extend the article into book-length form,
or to otherwise re-use portions or excerpts in other works, with full acknowledgement
of its original publication in the journal.
In all cases the author of the new work must include an acknowledgement of the source of
the material in the form: "From [Author (Year, Figure No.)]. Reproduced with kind
permission of The Clay Minerals Society, publisher of Clays and Clay Minerals." Then please
include the complete citation of the specific work in the list of references.
If you are not the author of CMS-copyrighted material
Individual readers of CMS Publications, and nonprofit libraries acting in their behalf, are freely
permitted to make fair use of the material in it, such as to copy an article for use in teaching or
research. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use, or the internal and
personal use of specific clients, or for educational classroom use, is granted by THE CLAY
MINERALS SOCIETY provided that the appropriate fee is paid directly to the Copyright
Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA, (978) 750-8400, FAX:
(978) 750-4470, web site: www.copyright.com. Permission is hereby granted to quote from
Clays and Clay Minerals and in the Workshop volumes in scientific works when an
acknowledgment of the source accompanies the work. Reprint of a figure, table, photograph, or
other excerpt requires written consent of THE CLAY MINERALS SOCIETY. Republication or
systematic or multiple reproduction of any material in Clays and Clay Minerals or the
Workshop volumes ( including abstracts) is permitted only under license from THE CLAY
MINERALS SOCIETY.
Permission to reproduce material from CMS publications is not given by default. That is,
requests including phrases such as "if I do not hear from you by (some date), I will assume that
consent is given" is not a substitute for explicit permission from CMS.
How to seek permission from CMS
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What material you wish to use. Include figure or table numbers, and the article
reference giving authors or article title, the CMS publication, year, volume number, and
page numbers.
The title of the publication in which you propose to use the material.
Reproduction in a thesis or dissertation. Will copies be available for sale from other
sources?
Whether or not the material will be modified, and a general statement as to the extent of
the modification.
If the material is to be used in a book, also include:
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the name of the book publisher.
For which languages do require rights.
For which parts of the world you require rights.
How many copies will be reproduced, and at what price (if any) will they be sold.
Please send your permission request to CMS at
Reproduction Requests
The Clay Minerals Society
3635 Concorde Pkwy Ste 500
Chantilly VA 20151-1125
United States of America
Phone: 703-652-9950
FAX: 703-652-9951
e-mail: cms@clays.org
Please allow one to two weeks for processing and mailing of simple permission requests. It may
take longer for complicated requests covering a great deal of material or complicated usages.
Urgent requests usually cannot be accommodated. E-mail permissions are presently not given
because they are not legal documents.
Processing fees and license fees
There are no processing fees.
License fees for actual usage may be assessed, depending on the proposed usage. License fees
are assessed when the proposed usage is large, commercial in nature, or when it may result in a
distribution that would compete with the CMS publication.
Electronic capture
Approval for electronic capture of complete CMS journal and book articles is usually not given
because it competes directly with CMS's own distribution of print and electronic matter. When
it is permitted, appropriate license fees may be assessed, and a contract stating the limits of such
capture and distribution is required.
Posting on your Web Site
Posting on the World Wide Web of material covered by CMS's copyright is prohibited without
specific permission from CMS. There is one exception. An author or group of authors may post
without further permission, on their own personal or organizational website(s) the title, authors,
and full abstract of their paper(s), providing
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the posting cites the CMS publication in which the material appears,
the citation includes the address line: "The Clay Minerals Society, 3635 Concorde Pkwy
Ste 500, Chantilly VA 20151-1125 USA (www.clays.org)", and
the abstract as posted is identical to that which appears in the CMS publication.
After a period of two years since the time of publication has elapsed, authors may post a copy of
their own paper on their personal or organizational website(s).