Contributor terms

1. The short version

You keep the copyright in what you write.

The Honorand publishes it first, and for 90 days it runs nowhere else. After that you can publish it wherever you like, with a line saying where it first appeared.

We keep it in The Honorand and its archive, and we may quote from it when we promote the issue. We will not pass it to anyone else without asking you.

We will edit for length, clarity and house style, and you will see the edited version and approve it before it is published.

You are credited by name and role, every time.

You can withdraw an article at any point before publication.

The Honorand is published openly, so your article will be readable by anyone, not only by Fellows.

2. What The Honorand is

The Honorand is the Society's e-zine. It is published openly on the website, so anyone can read it, whether or not they are a Fellow. Fellows are encouraged to share the link.

That is deliberate. An article read only by the people already in the room does nothing for the author or for the Society. Published openly, it carries your name and your institution's to everyone who finds it.

3. Who can submit

• Fellows of the Society
• University staff holding an appointment in a chapter, in their own right, credited by name and role
• anyone the Society invites to write for a particular issue

4. What we publish

The Honorand carries writing that is useful to the membership, to the Universities, and to anyone who reads it. That includes essays, practical pieces, case studies, interviews, and the text of a lecture or an acceptance speech where it stands up on the page.

Each issue has a submission deadline, published with the call for contributions.

5. Submitting

Submit through the platform. Tell us:

• the title and the text
• roughly how long it is
• any images you want with it, and who holds the rights in them
• anything we should declare, such as a commercial interest in what you are writing about
• how you would like to be credited, and whether you are content for the article to be open to anyone on the internet, which is how The Honorand publishes

We will tell you whether it is accepted, and we will tell you if it is not. Space is limited in each issue and a piece we do not run this time may run in the next one.

6. What you are telling us when you submit

By submitting, you confirm that:

• the work is yours, or you have the right to submit it
• it has not been published elsewhere, or you have told us where it has and you are free to let us run it
• it does not infringe anybody's copyright, and you hold permission for every image and quotation that needs one
• nothing in it is defamatory, and nothing in it breaches a confidence or a duty you owe to your employer or a client
• you have told us about any interest a reader would want to know about

If you are writing in a role, please check with your employer before you submit. We will assume you have.

7. Editing

We edit. That means length, clarity, house style, headings and the correction of errors. It does not mean changing what you think.

You will see the edited version before it is published and you will be asked to approve it. If we cannot agree on an edit, we will not publish the piece, and no hard feelings either way.

We choose the title, the placement in the issue and the images, after discussing them with you.

8. Credit

Every article carries your name, your post-nominals, and your role and institution as you give them to us. University staff are credited by name and role through submission, review and publication.

Tell us how you want your name to appear, and we will use that.

9. Licence

This is how magazines normally do it, and The Honorand follows the same pattern.

The copyright stays yours. You wrote it and you own it.

We publish it first, in public. For 90 days after the issue appears, The Honorand is the only place it runs. That period covers one full publishing cycle, up to the next issue. The article is open to anyone on the internet from the day it appears, and we would be glad if you shared the link.

After those 90 days you can publish it anywhere you like, on your own site, on LinkedIn, in a collection, in a book. All we ask is the credit line: "First published in The Honorand, [issue]."

We keep it. You give us a permanent, worldwide, royalty-free licence to keep the article in The Honorand and its archive, published openly on the website and on the platform, to include it in the weekly digest, to quote from it when we promote the issue, and to include it in any collected edition of The Honorand we publish ourselves.

We do not pass it on. We will not licence, syndicate or sell your article to anyone else without asking you first, and you can say no.

We do not use it to endorse anything, and we do not use it or supply it to train artificial intelligence models.

If you would prefer your article to carry a Creative Commons licence so that others may share it freely with credit, tell us when you submit and we will publish it that way.

10. Withdrawing

You can withdraw an article at any time before it is published, for any reason, by telling us.

After publication the issue stands as published, because people will have read it and cited it. If there is a good reason to take a published article down, tell us and we will discuss it. We will always correct a factual error, and we will say that we have.

11. Payment

The Honorand does not pay for contributions, and it charges nothing to publish one.

Where the Society commissions a piece and agrees a fee for it, the fee and anything else particular to that commission are set out in the commissioning letter, and that letter takes precedence over this section.

12. Responsibility

The views in an article are the author's. The Society publishes them because they are worth reading, and publication is not endorsement. We will say so in The Honorand.

If a claim is made against the Society because of something in your article that breaches the confirmations above, we may ask you to cover the cost of dealing with it. We will tell you as soon as anything arises and we will not settle anything about your work without talking to you first.

13. Questions

Write to info@societyofhonorarydoctors.org.