Permission to Reuse Content

Reusing AIP Publishing Content

Permission from AIP Publishing is required to:

  • republish content (e.g., excerpts, figures, tables) if you are not the author
  • modify, adapt, or redraw materials for another publication
  • systematically reproduce content
  • store or distribute content electronically
  • copy content for promotional purposes

Authors do not need permission from AIP Publishing to:

  • quote from a publication (please include the material in quotation marks and provide the customary acknowledgment of the source)
  • reuse any materials that are licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY license (please format your credit line: “Author names, Journal Titles, Vol.#, Article ID#, Year of Publication; licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.”)
  • reuse your own AIP Publishing article in your thesis or dissertation (please format your credit line: “Reproduced from [FULL CITATION], with the permission of AIP Publishing”)
  • reuse content that appears in an AIP Publishing journal for republication in another AIP Publishing journal (please format your credit line: “Reproduced from [FULL CITATION], with the permission of AIP Publishing”)
  • make multiple copies of articles–although you must contact the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) at www.copyright.com to do this

To request permission to reuse AIP Publishing content, use RightsLink® for the fastest response.

For RightsLink, navigate to the article you wish to license at https://pubs.aip.org, and click on the Reprints and Permissions link under the TOOLS tab. (For assistance click the “Help” button in the top right corner of the RightsLink page.)

To send a permission request to rights@aip.org, please include the following:

  • Citation information for the article containing the material you wish to reuse
  • A description of the material you wish to reuse, including figure and/or table numbers
  • The title, authors, name of the publisher, and expected publication date of the new work
  • The format(s) the new work will appear in (e.g., print, electronic, CD-ROM)
  • How the new work will be distributed and whether it will be offered for sale

Reusing Content Published by Others

To request another publisher’s permission to reuse material in AIP Publishing articles, please use our Reuse of Previously Published Material form. (We require documented permission for all reused content.)

Reuse of Previously Published Material Form (pdf)

Unless the publisher requires a specific credit line, please format yours like this:

Reproduced with permission from J. Org. Chem. 63, 99 (1998). Copyright 1998, American Chemical Society.

You do not need permission to reuse material in the public domain, but you should still include an appropriate credit line which cites the original source.