Copyright

For new articles (from January 2023)

Upon acceptance of an article, the authors grant J Hear Sci a non-exclusive license to publish it. The authors will retain copyright under a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivatives 3.0 PL license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 PL).

The license allows anyone to download the article and share it with others so long as they credit the authors and source, do not change it in any way, and do not use it commercially. Once an article is accepted for publication, it is embargoed from reporting in the media until it appears on the J Hear Sci website.

Archived issues

Copyright of articles published in issues from 1/2011 vol. 1 to 3/2018 vol. 8 belongs to the editor of the „Journal of Hearing Science” (© J Hear Sci).
Copyright of articles published in issues from 4/2018 vol. 8 to 2/2020 vol. 10 belongs to the authors (© the authors) under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
The editor declares that despite the omission of the mark „© the authors,” copyright of articles published in issues from 3/2020 vol. 10 to 4/2021 vol. 11 belongs to authors under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 PL license^*. Further, the editor declares that copyright of articles published in volume 12 (issues 1–4/2022) also belongs to the authors under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 PL license, despite the incorrect marking of „© J Hear Sci”^*.

^* As of 10 June 2024, all incorrect article markings have been corrected. New PDF files are available for download at
https://www.journalofhearingscience.com/Archive.