Republishing guidelines

We believe in the free flow of information and publish all our work under a Creative Commons — Attribution/No Derivatives license. 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, you will need to run them by the author for approval prior to publication. Contact us for assistance, or contact the author directly by clicking by the blue Contact button on their profile.

You have to credit authors and their institutions, ideally in the byline.

You have to credit The Conversation and include a link back to either 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 page view counter is a 1 pixel by 1 pixel invisible image that allows us and our authors to know when and where content is republished. If you use the “republish” button that accompanies each article you'll include our page counter. See "Page counter troubleshooting" below for more information.

You can't sell our material separately, but it's OK to put our articles on pages with ads or behind a paywall.

You have to confirm you're licensed to republish images in our articles. Some images, such as those licensed from certain commercial providers, cannot be republished without permission or payment, but others are licensed for you to use. Copyright terms are generally listed in the image caption and attribution. You are welcome to omit our images or substitute with your own. Charts and interactive graphics follow the same rules. Contact us if you have questions about specific images.

You can't systematically republish all of our articles.

• 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 articles provided you include a link back to the article URL.
• Translations: a derivative under our Creative Commons license and so require author approval. Many authors will give approval in good faith. Contact us for assistance, or contact the author directly by clicking by the blue Contact button on their profile.
• Edits: if you wish to make material edits, you will need to run them by the author for approval prior to publication. Contact us for assistance, or contact the author directly by clicking by the blue Contact button on their profile..
• Signed consent / copyright release forms: 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 us-republish@theconversation.com so that we can share it with the author.
• Podcast and video: also covered by Creative Commons and the same attribution requirements apply.
• Commercial, non-journalism usage: license fees may apply. Contact us to discuss.

• The page counter is an invisible 1x1 pixel image that allows us and our authors to know when and where our content is republished. If you use the Republish button, you will be capturing the page counter.
• If you need it on its own, the page 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 does not collect user data or personal information. We retain two pieces of data: 1) the referring URL, so we know what site republished the article, and 2) the browser user-agent version, so we can exclude traffic from bots. We also examine the IP address, which we use for city-level geo-coding and then discard.
• The page counter is distinct for every article, including a unique ID number for that article. If you're copying the code from another article or a saved template, be sure to update the ID number in the code. You cannot reuse the exact same code without updating it.
• WordPress is especially finicky about this, so we have put together instructions for WordPress. We also are beta-testing a feed solution.

Once you have published the piece, you can verify you have included the page counter by contacting our audience development team of Katrina and Joel at us-republish@theconversation.com to check. They can also answer any other questions.

You can download high-resolution graphics for use with our content:

• The Conversation (black): PNG, EPS
• The Conversation (white): PNG, EPS 
• Speech bubble icon (red): PNG, EPS 
• Speech bubble icon (white): PNG, EPS 
• The Conversation triple stack: PNG, EPS