How Do I?> get permission to reuse a chart/figure/graphic in a new publication?

How do I get permission to reuse a chart/figure/graphic in a new publication?

Answer

Get permission from either the producer of the original work or from the Copyright Clearance Center.

Contents

Introduction

To incorporate a chart, figure, graphic or other copyrighted content from a published work in your own publication, you must first obtain permission. Often a journal’s Web page will have a link to the permission information. In other cases, this information is located on the publisher’s Web site. Finally, some journals grant permission through a centralized Copyright Clearance Center.

Finding the permissions information page on a Web site can be difficult. Below are tips for locating this information.

Step-By-Step

  1. Locate the Web site for the journal from which you wish to reuse content. This information can be found through the Health Sciences Library’s Full-Text Journals page, or, for journals UVa does not own, through NLM’s LinkOut journal list.
  2. Some journals will have permissions information on the journal’s Web page. Typically you will see a link called Permissions, Permission Department, Rights & Permissions, etc.
  3. If you do not see a link on the journal’s Web page, find and click on a link to the journal’s publisher.
  4. From the publisher’s Web site, look for a link for requesting permission to reuse content. Again, this link will often be called Permissions, Permission Department, Rights and Permissions, etc, or may be listed under Contact Information .
  5. If the publisher information cannot be found, contact the Copyright Clearance Center. The CCC provides access to copyright permission for millions of publications worldwide.

Resources

For your convenience, below is a list of major health sciences publishers with a link to their permissions department:

Publisher Name Link
American Medical Association Permissions and Reprint Requests
Elsevier (including Academic Press, Cell Press, Churchill Livingstone, Lancet, Mosby, Pergamon, and W B Saunders) Obtaining Permission
Nature Reprints & Permissions
New England Journal of Medicine Permissions
Oxford Permissions Guidelines
Springer (including Kluwer Academic and Plenum) Rights & Permissions
Taylor & Francis Copyright & Permissions


Help

For additional information about getting permission to reuse content, contact Andrea Horne or Ask a Librarian here or at hslref@virginia.edu.

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