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Are we allowed to use the figures of a published paper in our poster/oral presentation at a conference by citing the source of figures?
Is an author (coauthor or corresponding author) of an already published paper in a journal (IOP and Elsevier) allowed to use figures of the (already-) published paper in their poster or oral ...
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Are there any ethical or legal issues when printing large texts from primary sources? [closed]
I am writing a secondary History textbook. It is quite nearly done, but I am required to integrate some primary source materials, such as diaries, log entries, letters, etc.
The textbook spans the ...
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Can I include Figures and Texts from IEEE/ACM publications in my PhD thesis?
I am currently writing my Ph.D. thesis. The thesis is in computer science specifically the data science domain. The thesis will be based on my 8 first-authored publications in IEEE, ACM and springer. ...
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Copyright Rules Regarding Figure Reproduction
A paper I wrote was recently accepted for publication. In one of our figures, we report our results juxtaposed against results from another paper published in a different journal. To perform a ...
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Copyright permissions vs fair use to include an image from Amazon
Hopefully, this isn't too off-topic or repetitive.
I'm writing my dissertation, and I am finishing up the last chapter discussing some of the experiments I did. In that chapter, I discuss a pump I ...
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Do I need to list any references for common knowledge? [duplicate]
When writing a book about a subject, if all your text is in your own words, and, contains only commonly known, fundamental, well established knowledge about the subject, which can all be seen in tons ...
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Permissions of an adapted figure for a thesis
I am looking to use a figure for my thesis.
The figure itself is however (heavily) adapted from another paper.
I am fine with reaching out to get permissions from both authors, but I am unsure if I ...
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I want to include a figure from a paper I wrote and is now published in a blog article, what's the best way to do this?
I was reading this question, and I was wondering what differences related to copyright (if any) there might be if I want to include one of the figures from an article I wrote and had published in a ...
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Advice on reusing images/illustrations from an AIMS paper
I'm working on a chemistry paper about the Belousov-Zhabotinsky-reaction (a chemical oscillator).
On of my sources is this paper from the AIMS. In the paper the authors have a few figures, ...
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Am I allowed to modify figures of a dissertation for my dissertation
Can I modify a figure of someone else's dissertation and use the modified picture in my dissertation? Or might this be a problem regarding the copyright? Of course I would cite the source which I got ...
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Fair use: Instructor sharing notes from textbooks
I am a new instructor, planning a course; this post comes from good faith. Basically, I am designing a course and am trying to give my students the best learning outcomes without demanding that they ...
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Do I need to ask permission to use image from a publication
I am involved in an EU H2020 project in which we are developping some educational and support material for companies to support them in implementing energy effeciency measures. Factsheets will be made ...
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Research topic already covered, change direction or what?
The previous days i begun with a research project on economic impact of physical disasters, and in the mean time , I found a paper with the same topic published 10 years ago (Sample period 1980-2003). ...
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Include code snippet which is licensed under the MIT License in a paper
My paper is about a software I created which uses part of another software licensed under the MIT license. It is available on Github and includes a copy of the MIT license correctly. Additionally the ...
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How to cite a modified figure?
I took Figure 1 from this article
and made a few changes to it.
How should I cite it?
Do I have to cite it?
Should I cite it like "from [source] (modified)"?
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