Publication

Copyright & Publication Rights

The agreement every author enters into when a paper is accepted by the Andover Economic Review. Authors keep their copyright; the Review keeps the right to publish the work.

Effective for all accepted submissions

Publication Agreement

This is the agreement between the corresponding author (acting on behalf of all authors of the work), referred to below as "the Author," and the Andover Economic Review, referred to below as "the Review," governing any article accepted for publication (the "Work").

1. Copyright

The Author retains copyright in the Work. Nothing in this agreement transfers ownership of the Work to the Review.

2. Rights the Author grants to the Review

In consideration of publication, the Author grants the Review a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to:

  • reproduce, publish, distribute, and publicly display the Work, in whole or in part, in the print and PDF editions of the Review and on its website;
  • create and store archival copies of the Work, including depositing it with indexing and archival services (for example, Google Scholar, citation managers, and the Internet Archive);
  • reformat, typeset, and prepare the Work for publication, and make minor corrections for clarity, style, or accuracy;

in any format or medium, now known or later developed, in connection with the Review. This license survives any change in the Review's editorial leadership, hosting platform, or publisher, and continues even if the Review ceases regular publication, so that previously published issues remain available.

Non-exclusive means the Author is free to publish, post, or license the Work elsewhere at any time, including on a personal website, a preprint server, or in another publication, and is not required to ask the Review's permission to do so.

Irrevocable means the Author cannot later withdraw the Review's right to keep the previously published version available. An author who identifies an error may request a correction or retraction notice; the Review will not be asked to remove a published article from its archive.

3. What the Review will not do without asking

The license above covers reproducing and distributing the Work as accepted. It does not give the Review the right to alter the Author's argument, findings, or conclusions. Copyediting for house style, length, and clarity is part of the ordinary editorial process and does not require separate approval; any substantive change to the Work's content will be sent back to the Author for review before publication.

4. Author's warranties

By submitting, the Author confirms that:

  • the Work is the Author's own original work, or the Author has identified and properly cited any material drawn from another source;
  • any third-party material included in the Work, including charts, data, extended quotations, or images, is either the Author's own, used under a license that permits this kind of reuse, or used within the bounds of fair use, and is cited accordingly;
  • the Author has the right to grant the license in Section 2, and, if there are co-authors, has their agreement to do so on their behalf;
  • the Work does not contain anything defamatory, does not violate anyone's privacy, and does not infringe any third party's copyright or other rights.

The Author is responsible for securing any permissions required for third-party material before submission. The Review does not verify third-party permissions and relies on the Author's warranty above.

5. Attribution

The Review will publish the Work under the Author's name and will not remove or obscure authorship. If the Author republishes or distributes the Work elsewhere after publication in the Review, the Author agrees to credit the Andover Economic Review as the place of first publication.

This policy applies to articles accepted for publication. It does not cover unpublished submissions under review, which remain solely the Author's until an acceptance decision is made. Questions about this policy can be sent to the editorial board.

This policy's structure and terminology are adapted from publication agreements used by other academic journals, including the University of Colorado Honors Journal, the Berkeley Undergraduate Journal, and journal agreement templates hosted by the University of Kansas.