Copyright and Licensing
(Adapted from the Journal of Graduate Librarianship)
Articles, creative works, and book reviews published in Humanities Methods in Librarianship will be licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Other materials from the Humanities Methods in Librarianship website are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Authors retain all copyrights to their works but grant Humanities Methods in Librarianship first publication rights to works accepted for publication.
Retractions
(Adapted from the Journal of Graduate Librarianship)
Correction: Despite the best of efforts, errors occur, and their timely and effective remedy are considered the mark of responsible authors and editors. HML will issue a correction if the scholarly record is seriously affected by errors in a work (e.g., if accuracy/intended meaning, author reputation, or journal reputation is judged to be compromised). HML will not issue a correction for errors that do not affect the work in a material way or significantly alter the reader’s understanding of the work (e.g., misspellings, grammatical errors); the pre-publication review of article proofs is the final opportunity to correct such errors. When a correction is issued, it will link to the published article and also be added to the published article. All corrections will be as concise as possible.
Retraction: HML reserves the right to retract articles, with a retraction defined as a public disavowal, not an erasure or removal. A retraction will occur if the editors and editorial board find that the integrity of the article is undermined due to errors or infringements of research ethics. Retractions could also occur due to undisclosed conflicts of interest or compromised peer review.
Removal: Some circumstances may necessitate removal of an article from HML. This will occur when the article is judged by the editors and editorial board to be defamatory, if it infringes on legal rights, or if there is a reasonable expectation that it will be subject to a court order. The bibliographic information about the article will be retained online, but the article will no longer be available through HML. A note will be added to indicate that the item was removed for legal reasons.
AI Policy
The humanities come to us from the Latin phrase studia humanitatis, which means, quite simply, “education that cultivates a human.” As a humanities-oriented publication, we are uniquely concerned with the ways in which the proponents of generative AI actively seek to undermine humanity—whether through replacing human intellectual labor or through contributing to the continued destruction of the planet.
Given our concerns, we will not publish articles in which AI has been used in either the conceptual (brainstorming, outlining, reading, analyzing, etc.) or productive (writing, revising, editing, etc.) phases of the writing process.
There are some instances in which AI may be used. Accuracy must be verified by the author. Acceptable uses include:
- Formatting references and in-text citations using bibliographic citation managers
- Enhancing accessibility
- Basic spell check and grammar check
Papers found to be in violation of this policy will be rejected or retracted. This policy may be revised in the future.
Name Change Policy
(Adapted from the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication)
As part of our commitment to authors and the research community, HML will honor name and pronoun change requests from our authors. This includes, but is not limited to, name changes because of marriage, divorce, gender affirmation, and religious conversion. HML will not require any form of proof or supporting documentation beyond what is needed to confirm the author’s identity and will only note that a non-substantive change was made to the published article.
HML can only make changes to the article (including all of its formats on the HML website) and journal webpage. HML cannot make updates to copies that have already been downloaded, nor can we make changes in indexes/databases that have picked up the original metadata, nor are we able to update citations to articles in which a name change has occurred. HML will not notify co-authors of the change to the article; authors may choose whether or not they wish to alert their co-authors.
Any misuse of this policy will be considered misconduct, and HML reserves the right to investigate and act against misuse.
How to request a name change: Authors who wish to change their name on any work previously published in HML are asked to email the editors.