Copyright

Protecting Publishing Rights

To help SLAC meet its contractual obligations to DOE, while ensuring both SLAC and its authors retain their publishing rights, you need to complete the following steps prior to submitting your document or copyright forms to a non-SLAC publishing agency.

  1. Register, upload, and release your paper
  2. Complete your copyright agreement form using the following guidelines:
    • Sign as a U.S. Government Contractor.
    • Ensure the copyright verbiage stated on the form covers SLAC's copyright stipulation verbiage below.
  3. If questions, contact Scientific Publishing Services (STI@slac.stanford.edu) for assistance.

SLAC's Copyright Stipulation

This following amendment to most journals' standard copyright agreement protects the author's right to post electronic copies of their papers on preprint servers or electronic archives.

"The Publisher, by accepting this article for publication, acknowledges the U.S. Government's right to retain a nonexclusive, royalty-free license in and to any copyright covering [this article or material in this work]."

OR

This manuscript has been authored by SLAC National Accelerator under Contract No. AC02-76SF00515 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purpose.

Still have questions? Contact Scientific Publishing Services.