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policy re: bioRxiv citations and image use

Hello. Is there a wikipedia policy about citing bioRxiv articles? Also, there are images in bioRxiv articles that I would like to upload. On bioRxiv they have cc by 4.0 license. I suspect, but do not know for certain, that the eventual published version will be copyrighted. Is it OK to use those sorts of images even after they appear in a copyrighted publication? For example, figure 2 A and B panels of http://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2017/05/17/139097.full.pdf would be excellent addtions to an article I'm interested in. Thank you. Viroguy (talk) 19:51, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi Viroguy. Yes, bioRxiv articles are used in citations. There is even a template at. There are many cases however where a citation to an unpublished article is not appropriate. As far as images in the article are concerned, once they have been released under a license the release cannot be taken back no matter where else they are published. You would need to include the citation to the article when you upload the image. That documents the licensing as well as crediting the creators. StarryGrandma (talk) 04:20, 3 July 2017 (UTC) With rare exceptions, everything is copyrighted from the moment it's created. Creative Commons and other licences give permission to use a the copyrighted work. It's still copyrighted. If it is republished without changes, you can keep using it under Creative Commons regardless of what terms are offered (or not offered) on the new version. If it's published with modifications, you can keep using the Creative Commons version, but you would need to check what (if any) license was available before copying the new version. Alsee (talk) 09:20, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Thank you both!!!!Viroguy (talk) 02:45, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Cryo-EM of a Marseilleviridae virus particle reveals a large internal microassembly