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1. How authors can reuse their own articles published by Elsevier
General Use of Articles
Authors publishing in Elsevier journals retain wide rights to continue to use their works to support scientific advancement, teaching and scholarly communication.
An author can, without asking permission, do the following after publication of the author’s article in an Elsevier-published journal:
- Make copies (print or electronic) of the author’s article for personal use or the author’s own classroom teaching.
- Make copies of the article and distribute them (including via email) to known research colleagues for their personal use but not for commercial purposes as described at right.
- Present the article at a meeting or conference and distribute copies of the article to attendees.
- Allow the author’s employer to use the article in full or in part for other intracompany use (e.g., training).
- Retain patent and trademark rights and rights to any process or procedure described in the article.
- Include the article in full or in part in a thesis or dissertation.
- Use the article in full or in part in a printed compilation of the author’s works, such as collected writings and lecture notes.
- Use the article in full or in part to prepare other derivative works, including expanding the article to book-length form, with each such work to include full acknowledgment of the article’s original publication in the Elsevier journal.
- Post, as described at right, the article to certain websites or servers.
Authors of Elsevier-published articles may not make copies of them or distribute them for commercial purposes. Such purposes include:
- The use or posting of Elsevier-published articles for commercial gain. Such use includes companies posting for use by their customers Elsevier-published articles written by the companies' employees. (Examples of such companies include pharmaceutical companies and physician-prescribers.)
- Commercial exploitation such as directly associating advertising with online postings of Elsevier-published articles.
- Charging fees for document delivery or access to Elsevier-published articles.
- Systematic distribution of Elsevier-published articles to parties other than known research colleagues via email lists or listservs, whether for a fee or for free.
Elsevier has a general policy to provide authors with complimentary copies of their articles.
Authors publishing in journals participating in our new e-offprint service receive access to watermarked PDF versions of their published articles as soon as 24 hours after publication. These PDFs may not be posted to public websites.
More information about offprints appears on the Authors Home on Elsevier's corporate website at 
www.elsevier.com/locate/offprints. Any author with a specific question about offprints can email authorsupport@elsevier.com. 
