Copyright and Permissions in Your ETD
Information concerning the use of copyrighted materials
Publisher Index
The links below will help you get to the part of your publisher's policy that talks about your use of your published article in your ETD. To obtain the information you need for your permissions appendix:
- follow the instructions provided by the publishers, or
- if use in an ETD is specifically granted on the site, take a screenshot/print the page to include in your ETD.
All listings in the index are color coded for ease of use. Green checks 
mean use in an ETD is allowed without request. Yellow question marks 
mean you will have to submit a formal request. Red x marks 
indicate that use of a whole article in an ETD is not permitted. Policies are subject to change; make note of the date the policy was checked.
American Association for the Advancement of Science
- AAS Reprints and Permissions Policy
The 'Permission for authors' section outlines that in AAAS's license to publish, authors are allowed to include their published articles in theses and dissertations provided proper citation is supplied. Checked 6/21/2023. - AAAS JournalsA list of journals published by AAAS.
American Chemical Society
- ACS Journal Publishing Agreement FAQ
Question 15: Do I have any rights to use material that I have authored, but for which ACS holds copyright? establishes that use in a thesis is permitted subject to the conditions in the Journal Publishing User Guide. Checked 05/9/2022. - ACS PublicationsFull-text access to 26 journals of the American Chemical Society. Includes illustrations, structures, figures, and supporting information.
American Concrete Institute
- ACI Copyright Transfer FormACI requires authors to transfer copyright of their material during the publication process. However, authors reserve the right to "use all or part of this article in future works of their own such as lectures, reviews, personal websites, text books, etc." Checked 12/12/2016.
- ACI JournalsList of journal titles published by the American Concrete Institute.
American Institute of Physics
- AIP Copyright and Permissions to Reuse AIP Material FAQAIP 'Author License' permits authors to "reprint the Version of Record ...in the Author's thesis or dissertation." Checked 5/9/2022
- AIP JournalsList of journals published by the American Institute of Physics.
American Physiological Society
- APS Rights of Authors"AAuthors may reproduce whole published articles in dissertations and post to thesis repositories without charge and without requesting permission. Full citation is required." Checked 03/11/20.
- APS JournalsList of journals published by the American Physiological Society.
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- ASBMB Copyright Permission PolicyGuidelines for the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Molecular & Cellular Proteomics and the Journal of Lipid Research permit use in a thesis and/or dissertation. Checked 06/21/23.
- ASBMB JournalsList of journals published by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) International
- ASTM Author Instructions for JournalsASTM permits authors certain uses, including (pg 6): "the right to include the work ...in a thesis or dissertation (provided that this is not to be published commercially)." Checked 6/21/23.
- ASTM JournalsList of journals published by the American Society for Testing and Materials.
American Society of Civil Engineers
- ASCE Reuse Author's Own Material
Authors may reuse the final draft of their work in a new work as long as it does not constitute over 25% of the new work. The reprinted material must contain a link to the original and the statement: "This material may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the American Society of Civil Engineers. This material may be found at [URL/link of abstract in the ASCE Library or Civil Engineering Database].” Checked 2/8/2021 - ASCE Research LibraryProvides full text access to journals, books, magazines, technical papers, and conference proceedings on topics relating to civil engineering.
American Society of Heating Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
- ASHRAE Resources & PublicationsThe Interactive Authors' Manual for Books and Papers linked on this page describes the uses authors are permitted to make of their papers without formally requesting permission, including: "include the paper in full or in part in a thesis or dissertation." Checked 12/12/2016.
- ASHRAE PublicationsList of material published by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- ASME Rights and PermissionsIn ASME Journals Digital Submission Tool: "Authors may ...display all or part of the Paper, and create derivative works in print or electronic format. ...for non-commercial purposes only...Authors must acknowledge ASME as original publisher." Also included are instructions for proper citation of the paper. Checked 06/21/23.
- ASME JournalsList of journals published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Association for Computing Machinery
- ACM Copyright and License Forms"Authors can include partial or complete papers of their own ... in a dissertation as long as citations and DOI pointers to the Versions of Record in the ACM Digital Library are included. ." Checked 6/6/2023.
- ACM PublicationsList of publications by the Association for Computing Machinery.
BioMed Central
- BioMed Central License AgreementAuthors publishing with BioMed Central publish with a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0. Copyright is retained by the authors and all copying, distribution, modification is allowed provided the original publication is cited. Checked 12/12/2016.
- BioMed Central JournalsList of journals published by BioMed Central.
Cambridge Press
- Cambridge University Press Permissions Requests
To reproduce a chapter, article, or extract published by Cambridge University Press in the author's own thesis/dissertation, the author must submit a permissions request form. Checked 12/12/2016.
Company of Biologists, The
- Company of Biologists PermissionsDefault publication in Company of Biologists journals is Green Open Access. Authors may include their article in a thesis immediately upon publication providing they link to the published article on the journal site. Checked 12/12/2016.
- Company of Biologists JournalsList of journals published by the Company of Biologists.