Licensing

The authors or editors keep the copyright on work published by Klisia, unless specified otherwise.

Licensing and publication rights

Klisia requires book authors and editors to publish their work in open access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. This licence allows commercial use of your work, which is necessary for making printed copies in places with poor internet access, for libraries, and for retailers. It is the most flexible licence, used by Rice University's OpenStax and other initiatives that make textbooks accessible. It lets you, the author, distribute your material under a different licence elsewhere, publish it for profit, or transform it, without concern for the Klisia version.

This licence applies to your work and to all images (photographs, illustrations, graphs, maps) you add. It is your responsibility as the author to obtain images that are CC BY 4.0 or in the public domain, or explicit permission from the copyright holder to publish them under CC BY 4.0.

Images should ideally be TIFF files, which do not degrade. JPEG files are accepted, but please do not edit and save them again, as each save degrades the image. Where it suits the image, vector formats such as SVG, EPS and AI are welcome.

What does this mean in practice?

Klisia is an open-access publisher: all online content is freely available to readers at no charge. Readers pay for print editions, but these are under the same open licence (CC BY 4.0) and refer to the free online edition.

With this licence, readers may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the books, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking the publisher or the author for permission, provided the work is appropriately cited.

How does Klisia handle translation and contextualization?

Any book published by Klisia can be requested for translation, with an editor for that language and context. The original text, or a published translation, can serve as the source: a Portuguese translation for the Brazilian context, for example, can be the basis of a contextualization for Lusophone Africa. Each paragraph is its own translation unit on our translation platform. For most languages, a large language model makes a first pass as a suggestion, which the translator may accept, edit or ignore.

The volume editor for that language and context may omit translation units (paragraphs, tables and so on) and add others in specific places. Imagine one of your chapters is called “A biblical response to corruption”. Translated into Portuguese and contextualized, it might read (in English here, for clarity):

• “A biblical response to corruption”, by Jane Doe: your translated chapter, with attribution;
• “Living out a biblical response to corruption in Brazil”: a section the Brazilian editor adds to your chapter.

A Mozambican editor may take the Brazilian edition and replace that added section with “Living out a biblical response to corruption in Africa”. The copyright page acknowledges the copyright holders of the original text, and of any translation used as a source, and the edition keeps the same licence.

This allows much-needed contextualization while preserving your work and research, for the good of the global church.