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6.2.10 Electronic Information Dissemination

A. Copyright Notice. The following copyright notice must be displayed on the initial screen displaying IEEE-copyrighted material electronically:

B. Electronic Preprints. Upon submitting an article to the IEEE for review and possible publication, the author must add the following notice to the first screen of any of his/her previously posted electronic preprint versions of the paper:

When IEEE accepts the work for publication, the author must add the IEEE copyright notice shown in Policy 6.2.10A above to any previously posted electronic versions of the particular paper submitted and provide IEEE with the electronic address (URL, ftp address, etc.) of the primary electronic posting.

When IEEE publishes the work, the author must replace the previous electronic version of the accepted paper with either 1) the full citation to the IEEE work or 2) the IEEE-published version, including the IEEE copyright notice and full citation. Prior or revised versions of the paper must not be represented as the published version.

C. Collected Works. IEEE-copyrighted collected works, such as Transactions, Journals, Magazines, and conference proceedings (full text and/or abstracts) and collections of published papers (including collections distributed from a single server or created through a collection of pointers that refer to versions posted by IEEE authors), may not be posted for electronic distribution without prior written permission from IEEE. Such permission will be contingent upon the placement of prominently displayed copyright and reuse notices. Another condition in granting permission will be that the posted collected work include a monitoring mechanism for authorizing access to the material and for the reporting of usage data. Finally, it is recommended that IEEE entities wishing to place IEEE-copyrighted conference proceedings on the Web/Internet also refer to the "TAB Book Broker Policy Statement on Conference Proceedings Disseminated Electronically". The Policy Statement can be obtained by sending an e-mail request to tab.proceedings@ieee.org.

D. Personal Servers. Authors and/or their companies shall have the right to post their IEEE-copyrighted material on their own servers without permission, provided that the server displays a prominent notice alerting readers to their obligations with respect to copyrighted material and that the posted work includes the IEEE copyright notice as shown in Policy 6.2.10A above. An example of an acceptable notice is:

E. Classroom Use. Instructors are free to post their own IEEE-copyrighted papers on their institution’s servers, provided that appropriate copyright, credit, and reuse notices appear prominently with the posted material. Other electronic distribution of IEEE-copyrighted works on university servers may be done only with prior written permission from IEEE.

F. Finality of Work. After IEEE accepts the work for publication and the copyright has been transferred, IEEE will not allow changes or revisions to the work without further review and approval.

G. Linking to IEEE. The IEEE and many affiliated societies provide publication and society information via Internet servers. Links to society servers are encouraged and prior consent is not required.

H. Third-Party Rights to Reuse IEEE-Copyrighted Material. Licenses and permissions to use electronic versions of IEEE-copyrighted material (abstracts, full text, etc.) for commercial or other non-IEEE-related purposes may be granted under terms approved by the IEEE Publication Activities Board.