Author Agreements

The following charts outline various journals in the field of LIS. Each journal title has a link to a short description of its copyright policies, including relevant URL's. The charts indicate which type of Copyright the journal allows, as well as which journals allow authors to self-archive without needing to first contact the publisher. This is only intended as a guide. Please verify that your submissions are allowed by your publisher by using the appropriate contact information. DList does not assume responsibility for assuring copyright compliance.

Journal	Publisher	Author Retains Copyright	Limited Copyright	Full Copyright	Publisher Allows Self-Archiving?
			Author Releases Copyright
The Acquisitions Librarian	Haworth Press, Inc.		Yes		"(Posting) on the contributor’s own Web site for personal or professional use, or on the contributor’s internal university/corporate intranet or network, or other external Web site at the contributor’s university or institution"
American Libraries	American Library Association				Possibly after 3 months from publication date.
Archival Outlook	The Society of American Archivists				No information available.
Ariadne	UKOLN				No information available.
Aslib Proceedings	Aslib				No information available.
ARIST	Information Today, Inc.	No			"You promise not to publish this Work elsewhere for three years following the publication of this work by ASIST, and then only with a full citation to ARIST and ASIST"
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology	Richard B. Hill	Yes			"(The author) may post a copy of the electronic version on my own Web site, authorize others to include print or electronic copies of my Work in their collections, produce new (derivative)Works based on this Work, or resell the Work to another publisher."
Behavioral and Social Sciences Librarian	Haworth Press, Inc.		Yes		"(Posting) on the contributor’s own Web site for personal or professional use, or on the contributor’s internal university/corporate intranet or network, or other external Web site at the contributor’s university or institution"
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly	Haworth Press, Inc.		Yes		"(Posting) on the contributor’s own Web site for personal or professional use, or on the contributor’s internal university/corporate intranet or network, or other external Web site at the contributor’s university or institution"
College & Research Libraries	American Library Association.			Yes	No information available.
C&RL News	Association of College and Research Libraries.			Yes	No information available.
Communications of the ACM	Association for Computing Machinery			Yes	On personal or employer's server w/copyright notice.
Computers in Libraries	Information Today, Inc				On personal or employer's server w/copyright notice.

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Journal	Publisher	Author Retains Copyright	Limited Copyright	Full Copyright	Publisher Allows Self-Archiving?
			Author Releases Copyright
D-Lib Magazine	Corporation for National Research Initiatives	Yes			Yes
The Electronic Library	Emerald		Yes		Yes
Government Information Quarterly	Elsevier Science, Ltd.			Yes	"Authors who sign Elsevier's standard copyright form automatically retain the right to post a pre-print version of their article on a WWW site, provided they do not update it to make it identical to the final published version."
IEEE Proceedings	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers			Yes	No information available.
Information Outlook	Special Libraries Association	No			No information available.
Information Processing & Management	Elsevier Science, Ltd.			Yes	"Authors who sign Elsevier's standard copyright form automatically retain the right to post a pre-print version of their article on a WWW site, provided they do not update it to make it identical to the final published version."
Information Technology and Libraries	Library and Information Technology Association		Yes	Yes	Limited:"Author agrees not to publish the Work in print form prior to the publication of the Work by the Publisher. [ALA requests that should you publish the Work elsewhere, you cite the publication in ALA’s Publication, by author, title, and publisher, through a tagline, author bibliography, or similar means.]"
Information Today	Information Today, Inc				No information available.
Interlending & Document Supply	Emerald		Yes		Yes
Internet Reference Services Quarterly	Haworth Press, Inc.	No			Unrestricted
Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship	Science and Technology Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries				No information available.

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Journal	Publisher	Author Retains Copyright	Limited Copyright	Full Copyright	Publisher Allows Self-Archiving?
			Author Releases Copyright
The Journal of Academic Librarianship	Elsevier Science, Ltd.			Yes	"Authors who sign Elsevier's standard copyright form automatically retain the right to post a pre-print version of their article on a WWW site, provided they do not update it to make it identical to the final published version."
Journal of Access Services	Haworth Press, Inc.			Yes	No provisions made in copyright agreement.
Journal of Archival Organization	Haworth Press, Inc.		Yes		"(Posting) on the contributor’s own Web site for personal or professional use, or on the contributor’s internal university/corporate intranet or network, or other external Web site at the contributor’s university or institution"
Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship	Haworth Press, Inc.		Yes		"(Posting) on the contributor’s own Web site for personal or professional use, or on the contributor’s internal university/corporate intranet or network, or other external Web site at the contributor’s university or institution"
Journal of Documentation	Emerald		Yes		Yes
Journal of Education for Library and Information Science	ALISE				No information available.
Journal of Government Information	Elsevier Science, Ltd.			Yes	"Authors who sign Elsevier's standard copyright form automatically retain the right to post a pre-print version of their article on a WWW site, provided they do not update it to make it identical to the final published version."
Journal of Information Ethics	McFarland & Company, Inc.	No			Authors must request permission before self-archiving.
Journal of Information Science	Bowker				No information available.
Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Information Supply	Haworth Press, Inc.		Yes		"(Posting) on the contributor’s own Web site for personal or professional use, or on the contributor’s internal university/corporate intranet or network, or other external Web site at the contributor’s university or institution"
Journal of Internet Cataloging	Haworth Press, Inc.		Yes		"(Posting) on the contributor’s own Web site for personal or professional use, or on the contributor’s internal university/corporate intranet or network, or other external Web site at the contributor’s university or institution"
Journal of Library Administration	Haworth Press, Inc.			Yes	No provisions made in copyright agreement.
JASIST	John Wiley & Sons, Inc.			Yes	"(P)reprints may be posted as electronic files on the Contributor's own website for personal or professional use, or on the Contributor's internal university or corporate networks/intranet, or secure external website at the Contributor's institution, but not for commercial sale or for any systematic external distribution by a third party"
Journal of the Medical Library Association	Medical Library Association			Yes	No information available.
Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory; or: Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services	Elsevier Science, Ltd.			Yes	"Authors who sign Elsevier's standard copyright form automatically retain the right to post a pre-print version of their article on a WWW site, provided they do not update it to make it identical to the final published version."
Library Hi-Tech	MCB University Press	Yes			Yes
Library Journal	Reed Business Information				No information available.

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Journal	Publisher	Limited Copyright	Full Copyright	Publisher Allows Self-Archiving?
		Author Releases Copyright
OCLC Systems and Services	Emerald	Yes		Yes
Online	Information Today, Inc.			No information available.
portal: Libraries and the Academy	Johns Hopkins University Press			No information available.
Public Libraries	Public Libraries Association			No information available.
Reference and User Services Quarterly; or: Reference Quarterly	American Library Association			No information available.
Reference Librarian	Haworth Press, Inc.	Yes		"(Posting) on the contributor’s own Web site for personal or professional use, or on the contributor’s internal university/corporate intranet or network, or other external Web site at the contributor’s university or institution"
Reference Services Review	Emerald	Yes		Yes
Research Strategies	Elsevier Science, Ltd.		Yes	"Authors who sign Elsevier's standard copyright form automatically retain the right to post a pre-print version of their article on a WWW site, provided they do not update it to make it identical to the final published version."
School Librarian	School Library Association			No information available.
School Library Journal	Reed Business Information			No information available.
Science and Technology Libraries	Haworth Press, Inc.	Yes		"(Posting) on the contributor’s own Web site for personal or professional use, or on the contributor’s internal university/corporate intranet or network, or other external Web site at the contributor’s university or institution"
Scientometrics	Kluwer			No information available.
The Serials Librarian	Haworth Press, Inc.	Yes		"(Posting) on the contributor’s own Web site for personal or professional use, or on the contributor’s internal university/corporate intranet or network, or other external Web site at the contributor’s university or institution"
Serials Review	Elsevier Science, Ltd.		Yes	"Authors who sign Elsevier's standard copyright form automatically retain the right to post a pre-print version of their article on a WWW site, provided they do not update it to make it identical to the final published version."
Technical Services Quarterly	Haworth Press, Inc.	Yes		"(Posting) on the contributor’s own Web site for personal or professional use, or on the contributor’s internal university/corporate intranet or network, or other external Web site at the contributor’s university or institution"

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