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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Peter,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This article was published by Elsevier, and written by an NIH employee. The work of US government employees does not attract copyright in the US, and so the manuscript is indeed in the public domain. We would, however, suggest that you contact the authors as this is in any case polite but there also could be restrictions on the use of the images.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>With kind wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Alicia <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F'>Dr Alicia Wise<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F'>Director of Universal Access<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#FF9900'>Elsevier </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>I The Boulevard I Langford Lane I Kidlington I Oxford I OX5 1GB</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>P: +44 (0)1865 843317</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'> I </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>M: +44 (0) 7823 536 826 I E: a.wise@elsevier.com I <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>Twitter: @wisealic<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> goal-bounces@eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Peter Murray-Rust<br><b>Sent:</b> 13 February 2012 09:08<br><b>To:</b> Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)<br><b>Subject:</b> [GOAL] Permissions attaching to pre-publication material<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>As part of a project to automate the collection of Libre scholarly publications and Libre material (<a href="http://wiki.okfn.org/Working_Groups/access/website">http://wiki.okfn.org/Working_Groups/access/website</a> ) I would be grateful if list members could offer clarification on whether a particular type of publication is Libre (BOAI-compliant). The manuscript in Pubmed referenced by <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18442920">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18442920</a> states:<o:p></o:p></p><div id="__fn-groupid1387026"><div id="__fn-groupid1387026titletitle"><div><p class=MsoNormal>Footnotes<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div id="__fn-groupid1387026content"><div><div id=FN4><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.<br><br>It is also labelled <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=nih%20author%20manuscript%5bfilter%5d&sort=SortDate&db=pmc&cmd=search&EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pmc.Pmc_LimitsTab.LimitsOff=true">NIHPA Author Manuscripts</a> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>(A) Can I assume that this manuscript is pre-publication and therefore the copyright resides with the authors and that the publisher can claim no rights over anything in this manuscript, including images. (I'd like definitive statements, not logical deductions, please)<br><br>(B) since it is a work of the US Government can I also assume it is in the public domain and therefore free of copyright? <br><br>This is useful to our group in many ways even if it is not the final publisher manuscript - for examples the images would be fully re-usable. <br><br>I am aware that even though it does not belong to any publisher , I am not allowed to bulk download these manuscripts as the publishers place that restriction on Pubmed. We have alternative approaches.<br><br>P.<br><br clear=all><br>-- <br>Peter Murray-Rust<br>Reader in Molecular Informatics<br>Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry<br>University of Cambridge<br>CB2 1EW, UK<br>+44-1223-763069<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>
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