Your Journal Article: Different Versions and Your Rights

The life of a journal article means that it exists in several different versions over the course of its lifetime, from your first draft to the final published version in an academic journal and online. Recently, some new terms for the different versions have been recommended by the National Information Standards Organization (NISO).¹ Figure 1 shows the stages that an article may go through. The bold terms in the boxes are the ones recommended by NISO.

Your rights as an author

Author's Original

• You have the right to share this with colleagues (but not on a commercial or systematic basis).
• Always providing that the editorial policy of the journal concerned allows this within its policies on prior publication, you have the right to post this on your own website, or on your institution's intranet, or within the institutional repository of your institution or company of employment, but only with the following acknowledgement or such other acknowledgement that Taylor & Francis may specify: "This is a preprint of an Article submitted for consideration in [JOURNAL TITLE] © [year of publication] [copyright Taylor & Francis]; [JOURNAL TITLE] is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/" with the open URL of your Article.

Accepted Manuscript

• You have the right to post this as an electronic file on your own website for personal or professional use, or on your institution's network or intranet or website, or within an institutional or subject repository. This is subject to an embargo of 12 months after first publication in Science, Technical & Medical subjects and the behavioural sciences, or an embargo of 18 months after first publication for Social Science & Humanities journals.

Version of Record

• You have the right to share this with colleagues as an electronic or printed offprint or reprint.
• You have the right to make printed copies of this for use by you for lecture or classroom purposes provided that such copies are not offered for sale or distributed in any systematic way, and provided that acknowledgement to prior publication in the relevant Taylor & Francis journal is made explicit. For the avoidance of doubt, you may use this version in teaching and for course packs within your own institution, so long as they are distributed free of charge and not sold to students, in which case we would require permission to be sought.
• You have the right to post this version in e-reserves, so long as it is also only within your institution. We allow this on the basis of the AAP/Cornell agreement: http://pressoffice.cornell.edu/releases/release.cfm?r=15899&y=20068m=9 .
• You have the right to facilitate the distribution of the article if it has been produced within the scope of your employment, so that your employer may use all or part of the article internally within the institution or company provided that acknowledgement to prior publication in the relevant Taylor & Francis journal is made explicit.
• You have the right to include the article in a thesis or dissertation that is not to be published commercially, provided that acknowledgement to prior publication in the relevant Taylor & Francis journal is made explicit.
• You have the right to present the article at a meeting or conference and to distribute printed copies of the article to the delegates attending the meeting provided that this is not for commercial purposes and provided that acknowledgement to prior publication in the relevant Taylor & Francis journal is made explicit.
• You have the right to expand this version into book-length form for publication, provided that acknowledgement to prior publication in the relevant Taylor & Francis journal is made.

PubMedCentral
You must not post manuscripts directly to PubMedCentral (PMC) or other third-party sites for any systematic external distribution by a third party (for example to a listserv or database connected to a public access server).

As a service to you, Taylor & Francis will deposit to PubMedCentral (PMC) manuscripts on behalf of Taylor & Francis, Routledge, and Psychology Press authors reporting US National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded research. This service is offered as part of Taylor & Francis' 2008 Deposit Agreement with the NIH. The service will assist you in complying with the NIH revised "Public Access Policy" effective 7 April 2008.

The NIH's revised policy requires that NIH-funded authors submit to PMC, or have submitted on their behalf, their peer-reviewed author manuscripts, to appear on PMC no later than 12 months after final publication. Taylor & Francis will deliver to PMC the final peer-reviewed manuscript, which was accepted for publication and that reflects any author-agreed changes made in response to peer-review comments. Taylor & Francis will additionally authorize the author manuscript's public access posting 12 months after final publication in print or electronic form (whichever is the sooner). Following the deposit by Taylor & Francis, authors will receive further communications from the NIH with respect to the submission.

Individual modifications to this general policy may apply to some Taylor & Francis, Routledge, and Psychology Press journals and society publishing partners.

For further guidance please see our Authors' Area at www.informaworld.com/authors. If you have any further queries, please forward them to authorqueries@tandf.co.uk

Jessica Feinstein
Author Services Manager, Taylor & Francis Journals

¹ Journal Article Versions (JAV): Recommendations of the NISO/ALPSP JAV Technical Working Group, 2008, www.niso.org/publications/rp/RP-8-2008.pdf