Copyright Transfer Agreement

For the Physics Education Research Journal (PERJ) to publish and distribute research articles, the editors require publishing rights to be transferred from the author to the publisher. This agreement allows PERJ to hold the publishing copyright license while ensuring authors retain significant rights to use and share their published articles.

Physics Education Research Journal supports the authors' need to disseminate their work and maximize its impact. Authors retain the right to use their articles in various ways, including sharing and distributing them through institutional or professional channels. These rights do not require special permissions from the journal. Authors whose works are published in PERJ can freely use their articles for educational and scientific purposes, such as:

• Using the articles in lectures, presentations, or conferences and distributing copies to participants.
• Sharing the articles with colleagues for research purposes.
• Including the articles in compilations of the authors' subsequent works.
• Incorporating the articles into a thesis or dissertation.
• Reusing sections or excerpts from the articles in other works, fully acknowledging the published article.
• Preparing derivative works for non-commercial purposes, with full acknowledgment of the published article.
• Posting the articles voluntarily on open-access websites operated by the authors or their institutions for scientific purposes.

When submitting a manuscript to the Physics Education Research Journal, authors agree that if the manuscript is accepted for publication, the publishing copyright of the article will be assigned to PERJ. Authors whose articles are accepted will receive an email confirmation requesting them to submit a Copyright Transfer Agreement.