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Web posting guidelines for papers published in AIP Journals and Proceedings

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) grants to the author(s) of papers submitted to or published in one of the AIP journals or AIP Conference Proceedings the right to post and update the article on the Internet with the following specifications.

On the authors' and employers' webpages:

• There are no format restrictions; files prepared and/or formatted by AIP or its vendors (e.g., the PDF, PostScript, or HTML article files published in the online journals and proceedings) may be used for this purpose. If a fee is charged for any use, AIP permission must be obtained.
• An appropriate copyright notice must be included along with the full citation for the published paper and a Web link to AIP's official online version of the abstract.

On free-access E-print servers:

• Author-prepared files only may be used; files prepared and/or formatted by AIP or its vendors (e.g., the PDF, PostScript, or HTML article files published in the online journals and proceedings) may not be used for this purpose.
• An appropriate copyright notice must be included along with the full citation for the published paper and a Web link to AIP's official online version of the abstract.

On NIH's PubMed Central and other funding agency repositories:

• Authors of AIP journal articles are invited to inform AIP if they wish to comply with funding agency requests that their articles be posted on PubMed Central, the online repository of the National Institutes of Health (US), or other such repositories designated by funding agencies. Authors should notify AIP via email to jrnlpub@aip.org and should include enough information to clearly identify their article, including journal name, article title, author's name(s), and either the full citation (for published papers) or the AIP ID number (for accepted articles being prepared for publication). AIP will supply the repository with the final, published article in a mutally acceptible format with permission to post the article 12 months after its date of original publication by AIP.
• For such articles for which the author has paid AIP's fees for open access publication (either via the Author Select program or for an AIP Access X-Press journal), AIP will notify the repository that they may post the article at any time after its publication by AIP and its transmission by AIP to the repository.

Format for copyright notices

After publication by AIP, the author is required to post the following copyright notice:

along with the following message:

Prior to publication by AIP, the notice should state:

Creating links

To create a link to your article* in an AIP journal or proceedings, you need to know the publication code for the journal or proceedings series, the volume number and the starting page number or citation identifier (article number). The general format for the URL is:

http://link.aip.org/link/?pub/vol/page, where

Example: To link to G. A. Gibson et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 051902 (2005).