Republishing guidelines

We believe in the free flow of information.

All our content is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives licence.

This means you can republish our articles online or in print for free, provided you follow these guidelines:

• You can't edit our material, except to reflect relative changes in time, location and editorial style. If you do wish to make material edits, which includes cuts, you will need to run them by the author for approval prior to publication. Authors can be contacted by the blue Contact button that accompanies their author profile, or contact uk-republish@theconversation.com
• You have to credit authors and their institutions, ideally in the byline.
• You have to credit The Conversation and include a backlink either to our home page or the article URL. Our preference is a credit at the top of the article and that you include our logo (available below).
• You must use our page view counter when republishing online. The counter is a 1x1 pixel invisible image that allows us and our authors to know where content is republished and how widely it is read. If you use the Republish button found on the right-hand side of each article this will provide you with the HTML for the article text and includes the page view counter. However, some CMS will strip it out so please check after publication. See Page view counter troubleshooting below.
• You can't sell our material separately, but it's OK to put our articles on pages with ads.
• You are responsible for confirming you're permitted to republish images in our articles. Some images that we use, such as those from commercial providers, are not licensed for use by third parties without their consent and payment. Copyright terms of an image are generally listed in the image caption and attribution. You are welcome to omit our images or substitute your own. Charts and interactive graphics follow the same rules.
• If you're planning to use our content for commercial use, you'll need to pay a licensing fee. Contact uk-republish@theconversation.com for more information.
• You can't systematically republish all of our articles, nor frame the content of our site.

• Extracts: you can run the first few lines or paragraphs of the article and then say: “Read the full article on The Conversation” with a link back to the article.
• Quotes: you can quote authors provided you include a link back to the article URL.
• Translations: are technically a derivation under the Creative Commons licence and so require author approval. Many authors will give approval in good faith. Authors can be contacted by the blue Contact button that accompanies their author profile, or contact uk-republish@theconversation.com
• Edits or cuts: if you wish to make material edits, you will need to run them by the author for approval prior to publication. Authors can be contacted by the blue Contact button that accompanies their author profile, or contact uk-republish@theconversation.com
• Signed consent / copyright release forms: are not required, providing you are following these guidelines.
• Print: articles can be published in print under these same rules, with the exception that you do not need to include the counter and links. We would appreciate it if you would send an image of the republished article to uk-republish@theconversation.com so that we can share it with the author.
• Podcast and video: are also covered by Creative Commons and the same licence terms apply.

• The counter is a 1x1 pixel invisible image that allows us and our authors to know where content is republished and how widely it is read. If you use the Republish button on the right-hand side of each article, this will provide you with the counter.
• If you need it on its own, the counter can be accessed by clicking Republish then the Advanced tab. This might be useful for republishers who: have deleted the code; are doing a translation; have copy/pasted from the article instead of the HTML; need to embed the counter as a widget to make it work in their CMS; need the script form because their CMS is set to cache the pixel. You can use either the image, script, or iframe tag version of the page counter.
• If the counter creates giant white space in an article, add style=border:0; height:1px !important; width:1px !important; into the tag to override the spacing.
• The page counter is distinct for every article and includes a unique article ID number. If you're copying the code from another article or a saved template, be sure to update the ID number in the counter – you cannot reuse the exact same code without updating it. The ID number in the counter code should match the number at the end of the URL of the published article on theconversation.com
• Privacy: the page counter does not collect user data or personal information. We retain two pieces of data: the referring URL, so we know which site republished the article, and the browser user-agent version, so we can exclude traffic generated by bots. We also examine the IP address, which we use for city-level geo-coding and then discard. See the diagram below and our privacy policy for details.

Once you have published the piece, you can verify you have included the counter by using your browser's "view source" function and searching for "counter.theconversation.com", or contact our audience development team at uk-republish@theconversation.com to check.

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