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Publishing agreement FAQs

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Completing your publishing agreement

When you publish with Cambridge we do not typically ask for a transfer of copyright ownership, just a licence to publish the content. This means that copyright ownership of the content we publish remains unchanged.

Following editorial acceptance, we will need both a completed Author Information Form and a signed publishing agreement before we can begin production of an article.

What sort of publishing agreement will I be asked to sign?

What is the process for signing a publishing agreement at Cambridge?

What is the Author Information Form?

What is Ironclad?

Who will need to sign the publishing agreement?

I am a United States Government employee and so my work is considered to be in the public domain in the United States. How does this affect my publishing agreement?

Issues with the publishing agreement process

I have submitted my Author Information Form, but have not yet received a publishing agreement to sign.

The title of my article is incorrect on the Information Request Form (IRF) and/or the Author Publishing Agreement.

I have signed the Licence to Publish, but would like to change my article to Gold Open Access.

I already completed a PDF Author Publishing Agreement, but I am being asked to complete another via Ironclad.

I have received my publishing agreement, but have further questions about submitting it.

Other issues with manuscript submission

I have queries about formatting and submitting my manuscript.

I've encountered a problem with my Author Information Form.