Wolters Kluwer Health works in partnership with the Copyright Clearance Center to meet your licensing needs with the RightsLink® Service. The Copyright Clearance Center's Rightslink® service is a fast and easy way to secure permission for content from Wolters Kluwer Health titles:
For further guidelines about obtaining permission see our frequently asked questions below:
Article Sharing
Wolters Kluwer endorses the STM voluntary principles for article sharing on Scholarly Collaboration Networks (SCNs), which enables and encourages the collaboration necessary to advance research.
Wolters Kluwer has worked with several organizations who have signed the STM voluntary principles, pledging to work with publishers to facilitate sharing, which benefits researchers, institutions, and society as a whole, by utilizing a core set of principles to maximize this experience for all.
Guidelines for article posting include:
For more information on article sharing, visit How Can I Share It, a resource developed by STM and endorsed by many partner organizations, including Wolters Kluwer, which provides guidance on how, when and where authors can share each version of their work.
Please contact Permissions@LWW.com if you have questions.
Before anyone can legally sell, publish or distribute a copyrighted work, they must obtain the permission of the copyright owner irrespective of the works publication status. This rule applies to using extracts or samples from their own work.
It is the responsibility of an individual or organization to ensure that copyright is respected when held by others and that permission to reuse work is obtained prior to use.
Permission is needed to publish any figure, abstract, portion of text or table that has been previously published.
Copyright Clearance Center partners with leading application and service providers in the academic and corporate markets, and with publishers across multiple disciplines, to provide users with simple-to-use rights licensing tools.
Rightslink® is found in the Journal's website on journals.lww.com or on Ovid
After navigating to the article on the journal's website, find "Request Permission" located on the right of the page under Article Tools. For further information click here.
For most STM publishers, when articles are submitted for publication the copyright is assigned to the journal by the author as part of the standard acceptance procedure. This means that in most cases the publisher of the original article will hold (or manage on behalf of the society that they represent) the copyright for the content you wish to reuse. Please always check the copyright statement at the bottom of the article or below the table/image in question.
FOR FULL-TEXT INFORMATION
It is a general policy of Wolters Kluwer Health not to allow posting of full-text articles on websites. You can cite the article on the website and add the original link so that only subscribers can view the full-text.
The STM Permissions Guidelines are a set of agreements between STM publishers (Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers). Not all STM publishers are signed up to this Agreement, so please always check the Permissions Guidelines, last updated December 2014. The Guidelines encourage the granting of permission by one STM signatory publisher to another to reuse limited amounts of material from published works in subsequent publications. The purpose of the use is scholarly comment and non-commercial research or educational use. Permission will be granted by one signatory publisher to another free of charge for the use of: A maximum of three figures (including tables) from a journal article or book chapter, but:
When requesting permission to reuse a full article in a thesis or dissertation, the following applies:
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If your organization has an institutional subscription on Ovid to the content that you want to reuse, you don't need permission. If unsure, please use Rightslink®.
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If you are a medical communications agency please use 'Pharmaceutical' in the "Requestor Type" field in RightsLink®
Authors that have published articles in LWW journals do not have to request permission for certain content through Rightslink® providing their request fulfils the conditions detailed in the Author's Permission document. For further information please also refer to your Copyright Transfer Agreement that you have signed at the time of submission.
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Wolters Kluwer Health will provide files in .pdf format for a student with a disability. Requests for these files must come from the institution's Assistive Services department or from someone else on the staff who is responsible for the task. Please note that files are sent to that person, who is then responsible for delivering the files to the student.
Please click on the link below to be taken to the form for such requests, complete all the required fields, and provide the 13-digit ISBN. We will contact you if additional information is required.
Due to extremely high demand for these files, we ask that you order as far in advance as possible.
Click here for the Wolters Kluwer Health Books Disability Request form.
It is Wolters Kluwer Health's policy not to allow any modifications of text in the image/figure; only colour or size can be altered.
Sometimes the copyright of an image is held by an author. If Wolters Kluwer Health or the Society which they are representing does not hold the copyright of the image/figure, this is clearly indicated below the image/figure.
The publisher does not always own reproduction rights to photographs or illustrations; rather, such rights may have been retained by the illustrator or photographer. It is vitally important to establish who the copyright owner is before submitting an article which includes photographs. Please use Rightslink® if Wolters Kluwer Health or the Society is the copyright owner of the image or photograph.
Requirement of consent
Reuse of patient images requires the patient's consent if the face or certain physical features are distinguishable however, a photo which has incidental inclusion of a person/ people, permission is not required.
Check the references to obtain the exact citation
If you are creating a figure or table using data from another publication:
Permission may not be needed if the figure or table is new work using data from a previous publication. You should still ensure that the original data source or sources are clearly acknowledged in your published work.
Please note the following:
If a figure or table is published and the original copyright holder is retaining the copyright, the following statement needs to appear in the figure/table legend.
"Copyright Prof Paul Smith [name of copyright holder], University Hospital Miami [location of copyright holder]. All permission requests for this image should be made to the copyright holder."
For buying bulk digital Reprints or photocopies of over 100 please contact permissions@LWW.com
If you only want to read an article and you don't have a subscription, you can purchase this article in pay-per-view.
Exceptions
For AHA (American Heart Association) Statements, Guidelines and Reports please go to http://copyright.heart.org/.
For ACOG (American College of Obstetrician and Gynecologists) Bulletins, Statements, Guidelines and Opinions please contact publication@acog.org
For any articles which are not online please contact the Wolters Kluwer Health permissions team permissions@LWW.com
Please add the original citation of the content and please use this disclaimer when you translate the content:
"Wolters Kluwer Health and its affiliates take no responsibility for the accuracy of any translation from the published English original and are not liable for any errors which may occur."
Below is a quick reference guide of the permitted reuse of your article. No need to use Rightslink®.
Please note that a republication in another Journal/Magazine/Book is a commercial request
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For more information about Open Access please see this document
We require that all authors always include a full acknowledgement. Example: AIDS: 13 November 2013 - Volume 27 - Issue 17 - p 2679-2689. Wolters Kluwer Health©
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