Blackwell Publishing and Author Self-archiving

Blackwell Publishing recognizes the importance of the Open Access debate for scholarly communications and its aim to deliver unrestricted access to academic research to all those who seek it. As the world’s leading society publisher, Blackwell has a responsibility to ensure that viable high quality society publishing continues to flourish. As well as making an active contribution to the OA debate, we have also made a public commitment to support Open Access models which contribute to this goal. This now includes allowing the author to retain the copyright of their Article while granting Blackwell exclusive rights to publish it. The author may also self-archive their final version of the Article on personal websites or institutional repositories, while providing a link to the definitive published version for users to refer to.

All Blackwell Publishing Journals

Author rights prior to acceptance:
Provided they acknowledge that the Article has been submitted for publication in the journal from the relevant society and Blackwell Publishing, authors may:

• share print or electronic copies of the Article with colleagues;
• post an electronic version of the Article on their personal website, their employer’s website/repository and on free public servers in their subject area.

Standard Blackwell Publishing Journals

Author rights after acceptance:
The following author rights apply to all Blackwell journals, apart from Online Open articles (see below).

Provided they give appropriate acknowledgment to the journal, the relevant society and Blackwell Publishing, and give the full bibliographic reference for the Article when it is published, authors may:

• share print or electronic copies of their version of the Article with colleagues (not the final published version);
  use all or part of the Article in other publications;
• use the Article for educational or research purposes;
• post their version of the Article on their personal website, their employer’s website/repository and on free public servers in their subject area after the embargo period stipulated by the journal has been passed (note that the embargo period will vary by journal, e.g. 6 months or 12 months, and that some journals do not have any embargo on self-archiving at all – see note below).
• When posting on the web, authors must give full bibliographic details plus a link to the published version of the Article as follows: ‘The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.com '.

Additional points to note:

• Many journals, though not all, have an embargo period before which posting Articles on the web or in institutional or subject-based repositories is restricted. This is in order to provide extra protection to the subscriptions base of the journal. This embargo period is clearly stipulated on copyright agreements and in the terms and conditions relating to the use of PDF offprints.
  
• Authors cannot reproduce the Article for commercial purposes (commercial purposes = ‘for monetary gain on [their] own account or on that of a third party, or for indirect financial gain by a commercial entity’). However, this does not affect an author’s rights to receive a royalty or other payment for works of scholarship.
  

Guidelines for Librarians/Institutional Repository Managers

Librarians who are managing their institution’s repository should approach the authors within their institutions directly, rather than the publisher. The authors of Articles which are published in Blackwell journals will be able to provide their final version of their Articles for posting and can confirm the embargo period on posting the Article on the web. The institutional repository record should include full bibliographic details and provide a link so that users can make reference to the final published version of the Article.

Online Open Articles
The following author rights apply to all Online Open articles.
Provided they give appropriate acknowledgment to the journal, the relevant society and Blackwell Publishing, and give the full bibliographic reference for the Article when it is published, authors may:

• share print or electronic copies of the Article with colleagues;
• use all or part of the Article and abstract in personal compilations or other scholarly publications of their own work (and may receive a royalty or other payment for such work);
• use the Article within their employer’s institution or company for educational or research purposes, including use in course packs;
• post the final PDF of the Article on their own personal website, on their employer’s website/repository and on free public servers in their subject area. Blackwell Publishing will deposit the full-text of their Article on publication with PubMed Central (PMC) in addition to any mirror of PMC (e.g. UKPMC). Electronic versions of the accepted Article must include a link to the published version of the Article together with the following text: ‘For full bibliographic citation, please refer to the version available at www3.interscience.wiley.com '.

Third parties will be entitled to re-use of the Article, in whole or in part, in accordance with the conditions outlined in the Creative Commons Deed, Attribution 2.5 Non-Commercial (further details from www.creativecommons.org), which allows Open Access dissemination of your work, but does not permit commercial exploitation or the creation of derivative works without your permission. Please address any queries to journalsrights@oxon.blackwellpublishing.com