Rights & Permissions
Information on Rights and Licenses
All publications by Mohr Siebeck are protected by copyright. Depending on your plans, there are two options available to you: the right of secondary exploitation / content licensing and inquiries regarding translation rights.
If you would like to submit a request for a license or for the granting of rights, you will find the respective form under the relevant category below.
For general questions regarding rights and licenses, please contact the appropriate representative in the Rights and Licenses Department.
You can find current catalogs and directories here.
Upon acceptance for publication of a work or an article in a journal, anthology, or commemorative volume, the author grants Mohr Siebeck the exclusive right to publish (exceptions may apply; please review your publishing contract. Open Access publications also constitute an exception to this rule). This includes, in particular, the right to reproduce, distribute, and make the work publicly available. For articles in a journal, anthology, or commemorative volume, the author retains the right to reproduce and distribute a digital reprint of their own article for private use, but not to make it publicly available.
For articles in journals, the exclusivity period ends 12 months after publication; for articles in anthologies and commemorative volumes, it ends after 24 months. Thereafter, authors may, under certain conditions, reproduce and distribute the article in print elsewhere or make the data of their own article in the printed version publicly available, provided this is not for commercial purposes. In all cases, full reference must be made to the version published by Mohr Siebeck; if available, the DOI must also be provided.
For articles in handbooks and textbooks, such as in UTB volumes or reference works like RGG4, reproduction or distribution in printed or electronic form is not permitted without the publisher’s permission.
The same applies to monographs or portions thereof; in such cases, reproduction, distribution, and making the material publicly available without permission are prohibited. In special cases, such as for internal university evaluation purposes, the publisher may grant permission as an exception.
Please note: No permission is required for reprinting excerpts of fewer than 400 words; however, a complete citation of the original publication must be provided in all cases.
Please fill out the appropriate form for all such requests; verbal permissions are not granted, and only written requests can be processed:
Reprint Permission and Secondary Use Form
Please submit your request in a timely manner, as processing may take up to six weeks.
If you wish to translate and publish one of our works in another language, this constitutes a request for translation rights. For such projects, please contact our representative in the Rights and Licenses Department, as Mohr Siebeck centrally collects and reviews these requests.
Please note that requests for translation rights can only be submitted using the corresponding form:
It is helpful to describe the intended use as precisely as possible, including the language, format, length, and distribution channel. This allows the Licensing Department to more quickly assess which rights are involved and what additional information may be required. Please submit your application in a timely manner, as processing may take up to six weeks.
Current catalogs and directories can be found here; they can help guide you in selecting a title and planning a translation. Alternatively, you can navigate on our homepage either via the search field or via our program categories.