Copyright and access rights

Both the paper and online versions of STAKES publications are materials subject to copyright. You may, however, use the texts, images and figures in your own presentations or as reference material in your own work provided that the source is acknowledged.

Under the Finnish copyright legislation, it is prohibited to reproduce elsewhere the publications in part or in whole without the author's permission, or to use them without appropriately acknowledging the source as a part of another work or web service or to modify the materials.

The publications can be freely read and printed for personal use. Any commercial use is forbidden.

The publication can only be printed and photocopied for other than personal use if the organisation responsible for the use of the publication holds a valid agreement made with the Finnish copyright society Kopiosto for photocopying copyrighted materials.

If you wish to use or publish materials published by STAKES more extensively than allowed for by the normal citation practice of texts, images and figures, please contact STAKES (Päivi Väyrynen, Director of Division, tel. +358 400 465 220, e-mail firstname.lastname@stakes.fi).