Why does Annual Reviews require transfer of copyright?
The transfer of copyright allows Annual Reviews (a nonprofit organization) to publish and distribute your article; to recover the costs of publication without immediate commercial competition; to maximize worldwide protection against infringement, libel, and other violations; to make arrangements for abstracting, indexing, translating, and reprinting; to efficiently process third party reprint requests; to manage inbound and outbound linking protocols; and to ensure the long-term accessibility of the review. Further, copyright transfer codifies Annual Reviews’ flexibility to disseminate your work as broadly as possible via whatever media and delivery mechanisms are appropriate today and in the future.
