We are eager to see the ideas of our authors reach as broad an audience as possible, so we try to make it easy to obtain permission to distribute or reproduce articles or excerpts. Our policies encourage sharing within the bounds of the copyright regulations while preserving the authors’ right to compensation. The following guidelines pertain to the most frequently requested scenarios:

Distributing copies of an article from The Systems Thinker
You may not distribute electronic copies of an article, but you may distribute paper copies. You must first own a copy of the article. Then you may purchase rights through the Pegasus shopping cart. For your convenience, the link to purchase rights to make paper copies appears at the end of the description of every PDF article that is for sale in the Pegasus shopping cart. The charge is $2.50 per copy.

Republishing an article from The Systems Thinker in your own publication
If you wish to republish an article from the newsletter—in whole or in part—in your own publication, the customary charge is $250. We also require that you include appropriate citation and send us a copy of the reproduction, where it appears in your publication.

Posting an article from The Systems Thinker on your website
If you wish to post an article from the newsletter—in whole or in part—on your own web site, the customary charge is $500. We also require you to advise us of the URL of the posted material and include appropriate citation and reciprocal hyperlink.

Site license access
If you are interested in regularly making articles available to your entire organization, you might consider obtaining a site license subscription. An organizational site license is an agreement that entitles an organization to shared access of the newsletter in PDF format on ONE Intranet by an unlimited number of employees. The cost of a site license is $1,000 per year (less than the cost of 10 individual subscriptions). If your organization does not permit PDF files to be posted on your intranet, another option is for your staff to view each issue on The Systems Thinker web site.

Posting an article on an access-restricted course web site
The same restrictions apply as when distributing paper copies of an article. You must first own a copy of the article. Then you may purchase rights for distribution based on the number of students who will be viewing the article. The charge is $2.50 per course attendee. If you are an educational organization a 20% discount may apply. The following additional restrictions apply:

• You must expire the article at the end of the course.
• The course site must be password protected.
• We ask that you put a link to our web site on the course site.

Please contact our permissions department or call 781-398-9700 with any questions or to arrange payment for a permitted use.