Copyright & Licensing
At Potroput (পত্রপুট), we believe that authors should retain ownership of their work while making it accessible to the global research community. Our copyright policy is designed to protect authors' rights while ensuring that research is freely available for reading, sharing, and reuse under appropriate terms.
Copyright Ownership
Author Rights
- Retain full copyright to your work
- Grant journal right of first publication
- License under Creative Commons
- Reuse in teaching and presentations
- Post in institutional repositories
Journal Rights
- Right of first publication
- Distribution and archiving rights
- Indexing and abstracting rights
- Promotion and marketing rights
- Preservation and archiving rights
Creative Commons License
What does CC BY 4.0 mean?
This license allows others to share, copy, distribute, and transmit the work, as well as to adapt the work, provided they give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source. It permits:
Copyright Transfer vs. License
Traditional Copyright Transfer
In traditional publishing, authors transfer full copyright to the publisher, limiting their rights to reuse, share, and distribute their own work.
- Author loses copyright ownership
- Restricted reuse rights
- Permission required for sharing
- Limited self-archiving options
Creative Commons License
Authors retain copyright and grant a license to the publisher, allowing broad reuse and sharing while maintaining ownership and attribution rights.
- Author retains copyright
- Broad reuse and sharing rights
- Open access to all readers
- Full self-archiving permitted