Public Access Policy

General Guidelines

Authors of articles to be published in the journals of American Psychiatric Publishing (APP) and the American Psychiatric Association (APA) can deposit those articles in public access repositories subject to the following conditions:

• The author’s version of the accepted manuscript (post–peer review) can be deposited in any public or institutional repository for public release no earlier than 12 months after publication in the journal (online or in print, whichever occurs first).
  
  
• If the author selects APP’s “immediate public access” program (fee based), APP will deposit in PubMed Central on behalf of the author the official published version for release immediately on publication in the journal (i.e., the 12-month embargo is waived).
  
  
• APP’s official published version (PDF or other format; including copyediting, graphic design, and formatting) cannot be deposited unless our fee-based “immediate public access” program is selected by the author.
  
  
• APP acknowledges the right of authors to deposit their peer-reviewed accepted manuscript in public or institutional repositories to be in compliance with National Institutes of Health (NIH) or other funding agency mandates (see below for NIH mandate details). APP’s requirement of a 12-month embargo before release can be waived if the author participates in APP’s “immediate public access” program (fee based).
  
  
• The journal’s copyright statement and complete article source, including doi, must be included on the deposited article. The article must link directly to the published version on the journal’s website at http://www.psychiatryonline.org with the phrase: “The official published article is available online at <insert full URL for article>.”
  
  
• The right to deposit does not extend to material (e.g., figures and tables) included in the article with permission from another copyright holder.
  
  
• All uses of the repository version must be noncommercial.
  
  
• These policies apply to articles published in APP/APA journals only; books published by APP and the APA, including DSM-IV-TR, are not covered by these policies.
  
  

Public availability of a manuscript in “preprint” or working paper form in advance of peer review and acceptance for publication would not necessarily preclude publication in an APP/APA journal. Such manuscripts may still be considered for publication if they represent original work, have not been previously published in another journal or book, and are not being considered for publication elsewhere.

NIH-Funded Research

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Revised Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research (Public Access Policy), which took effect on April 7, 2008, requires all investigators funded by the NIH to submit or have submitted for them their final peer-reviewed manuscript upon acceptance for publication to the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) PubMed Central (PMC) to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication. APP/APA journals acknowledge that the Author retains the right to provide a copy of the author’s final version of the manuscript to the NIH upon acceptance for publication (i.e., after all modifications from the peer review process but before copyediting, graphic design, formatting, and production work performed to produce the final published article) for public release no earlier than 12 months after publication in the journal (online or in print, whichever occurs first).

If the author selects APP’s “immediate public access” program (fee based), APP will deposit in PubMed Central on behalf of the author the official published version (PDF or other format; including copyediting, graphic design, and formatting) for release immediately on publication in the journal (i.e., the 12-month embargo is waived).

Unless the author decides to participate in APP’s fee-based “immediate public access” program, APP/APA journals do not deposit manuscripts on behalf of authors. The NIH has developed a password-protected, web-based NIH Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) system to help authors comply with the NIH Public Access Policy.

Additional Policy Information

American Journal of Psychiatry
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Psychiatric Services
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FOCUS
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Academic Psychiatry
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Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
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