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Publishers allowing the deposition of their published version/PDF in Institutional Repositories

Last Updated: 01-Feb-2012

No restrictions

The following publishers listed on RoMEO allow authors to deposit the publisher version or PDF of their article in an Institutional Repository, without fee or an embargo.

  1. Academia das Ciências de Lisboa
  2. Academic Journals
  3. Academic Journals, New York
  4. Acta Clinica Belgica
  5. Acta Didactica Norge
  6. Actuarial Society of South Africa
  7. Aedificatio Publishers
  8. Agricultural Institute of Canada
  9. Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im. Stanisława Staszica w Krakowie (AGH University of Science and Technology)
  10. Alliance for Children and Families
  11. American Association of Australian Literary Studies
  12. American Fisheries Society
  13. American Folklore Society
  14. American Institute of Physics
  15. American Mathematical Society
  16. American Podiatric Medical Association
  17. American School of Classical Studies at Athens
  18. American Society for Cell Biology
  19. American Society for Clinical Investigation
  20. American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers
  21. American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
  22. Ames Foundation at the Harvard Law School, The
  23. Amsterdam University Press
  24. Anthropological Society of Oxford
  25. Archaeological Institute of America
  26. Arctic Institute of North America
  27. Asian Network for Scientific Information (ANSINET)
  28. Associação Portuguesa de Críticos de Teatro
  29. Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Franceses
  30. Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia
  31. Asociacion Nicaraguense de Entomologia
  32. Association des Annales de l'Institut Fourier
  33. Association for Symbolic Logic
  34. Association Publications de l'Institute Henri Poincare
  35. Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education
  36. Australian Physiotherapy Association
  37. Berkeley Electronic Press
  38. Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics & Probability
  39. Bioinfo Publications
  40. BioMed Central
  41. Biophysical Society
  42. Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
  43. BMJ Publishing Group
  44. Boreal Environment Research Publishing Board
  45. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem
  46. Brigham Young University, Monte L bean Life Science Museau
  47. Canadian Journal of Communication
  48. Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences
  49. Carnets de Geologie
  50. Centro de Investigaciones y Publicaciones Farmaceuticas
  51. CETAC.MEDIA
  52. Chemistry Central
  53. CILIP, Library & Information Research Group
  54. Co-Action
  55. Cognizant Communication Corporation
  56. Copernicus Publications
  57. Cornell University, The Johnson School
  58. Crustacean Society
  59. Cybergeo : European Journal of Geography
  60. DentaQuest
  61. Dove Medical Press
  62. Early Modern Literary Studies - HTML
  63. e-Content Management (if the institution is a subscriber)
  64. Edições Universidade Fernando Pessoa
  65. EDP Sciences
  66. EDUCOM (Associação Portuguesa de Telemática Educativa)
  67. Ekonomiaz
  68. Engineering Integrity Society
  69. EPI SCP
  70. European Centre for Minority Issues
  71. European Geophysical Union
  72. European Microwave Association (EuMA)
  73. European Polymer Federation
  74. Faculdade Cenecista de Campo Largo (FACECLA)
  75. Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
  76. Fitness Information Technology
  77. FORMakademisk
  78. Frontiers Research Foundation
  79. Georgia State University, Department of English
  80. German Medical Science
  81. Global Science Books
  82. Graz University of Technology, Institut für Informationssysteme und Computer Medien (IICM)
  83. Grupo Comunicar
  84. Health and Medical Publications Group
  85. Higher Education Academy, Engineering Subject Centre
  86. Higher Education Authority, UK Centre for Bioscience
  87. Hindawi
  88. Human Kinetics
  89. Indian Journal of Stomatology
  90. Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology
  91. Industrial Marketing and Purchasing Group
  92. Information Research
  93. INFORMS - Institutional Repository deposit allowed on request
  94. Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
  95. Institute of Mathematical Statistics
  96. Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Escola Superior de Educação
  97. Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Escola Superior Agrária
  98. Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Escola Superior de Educação
  99. Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Escola Superior de Artes e Design
  100. Instituto Politécnico de Santarém, Escola Superior de Educação
  101. Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Edição própria
  102. Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Centro de Estudos Africanos
  103. International Computer Games Association
  104. International Institute for Religious Freedom
  105. International Pragmatics Association
  106. International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
  107. International Union of Crystallography (authorised electronic reprint only and not the PDF)
  108. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
  109. ISA Press
  110. JD Sauerlaender's Verlag
  111. Journal of Insect Science
  112. Journal of Maps
  113. Journal of Social History
  114. Kassel University Press
  115. Knowledgia Review
  116. Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia
  117. Libertas Academica
  118. Library Student Journal
  119. Lindbergia
  120. Ludwig von Mises Institute
  121. LumiText Publishing
  122. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press
  123. Materials Research Society
  124. Medfarma - Edições Médicas
  125. Medknow Publications
  126. Mendelian Society of Lund
  127. Meteoritical Society
  128. Michigan Law Review
  129. Ministério da Saúde, Instituto da Droga e da Toxicodependência, I.P
  130. Missouri Botanical Garden Press
  131. Modern Science Publishers
  132. Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona (Museum of Natural Sciences of Barcelona)
  133. Mycological Society of America
  134. National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
  135. National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
  136. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
  137. Naturfagsenteret
  138. New Zealand Medical Association
  139. New Zealand Nursing Organisation
  140. NIFU (Nordisk institutt for studier av innovasjon, forskning og utdanning)
  141. Nordic Journal of Information Literacy in Higher Education (NORIL)
  142. Norges geologiske undersøkelse
  143. Norges handelshøyskole (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration)
  144. Norges optikerforbund (Norwegian Association of Optometry)
  145. Norsk arbeidsrettslig forening (Norwegian Society for Labour Law)
  146. Norsk Arkeologisk Selskap (Norwegian Archaeological Society)
  147. Norsk kulturråd (Arts Council Norway)
  148. Norsk Logopedlag (NLL)
  149. Norsk sykepleierforbund (Norwegian Nurses League)
  150. Norske medicinske Selskab (Norwegian Medical Society)
  151. Oceanraise
  152. Open House International Association
  153. OpenJournals Publishing
  154. Optical Society of America
  155. Opulus Press
  156. Ordem dos Médicos
  157. Polish Histochemical and Cytochemical Society
  158. Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Paleobiologi (Polish Academy of Sciences, Institue of Paleobiology)
  159. Primitive tider
  160. Professional Engineering Publishing (Institution of Mechanical Engineers)
  161. Psikiyatride Guncel Yaklasimlar
  162. Public Library of Science
  163. Radiation Research Society
  164. Rainer Hampp Verlag
  165. Rapid Intellect
  166. Rockefeller University Press
  167. Royal Meteorological Society
  168. School of Communication Studies, AUT
  169. SEEd Medical Publishers
  170. Serbian Chemical Society
  171. Skepsis
  172. Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina de Família e Comunidade
  173. Sociedade de Ciências Agrárias de Portugal
  174. Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciências Veterinárias
  175. Sociedade Portuguesa de Hemorreologia e Microcirculação
  176. Sociedade Portuguesa de Reumatologia
  177. Société Royale Belge des Electriciens
  178. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  179. Society for Neuroscience
  180. Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
  181. Socio-Legal Research Centre, Griffith Law School, Griffith University
  182. Southern Economic Association
  183. SRL Archive
  184. Texas State University, Department of Mathematics
  185. The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc
  186. Tobacco Control and Public Health in Eastern Europe
  187. Türk Eğitim Derneği (Turkish Education Association)
  188. Ubiquity Press
  189. Unidade de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Enfermagem (UI&DE)
  190. United Kingdom Serials Group (UKSG)
  191. Universidad de La Sabana
  192. Universidad de Murcia
  193. Universidad de La Sabana
  194. Universidade Aberta
  195. Universidade Católica Editora
  196. Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Tecnologia das Artes
  197. Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Centro Regional das Beiras, Departamento de Economia, Gestão e Ciências Sociais
  198. Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Centro Regional do Porto
  199. Universidade de Aveiro, Centro de Investigação em Didáctica e Tecnologia na Formação de Formadores
  200. Universidade de Aveiro, Departamento de Electrónica, Telecomunicações e Informática (DETI)
  201. Universidade de Aveiro, Departamento de Geociências
  202. Universidade de Aveiro, Departamento de Línguas e Culturas
  203. Universidade de Coimbra, Faculdade de Economia
  204. Universidade de Lisboa, Centro de Estudos Anglísticos
  205. Universidade de Lisboa, Centro de Filosofia das Ciências
  206. Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, Centro de Filosofia
  207. Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Ciências Sociais
  208. Universidade de Lisboa, Jardim Botanico
  209. Universidade de Lisboa, Unidade de I&D de Ciências da Educação
  210. Universidade do Minho, Instituto de Educação, Centro de Investigação em Educação
  211. Universidade do Porto
  212. Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Letras
  213. Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação
  214. Universidade dos Açores
  215. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciencias e Technologia, Inovacao Empresarial e do Trabalho
  216. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia
  217. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais
  218. Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas (ISCSP-UTL)
  219. Universitetet i Nordland, Department of Social Sciences
  220. Universitetet i Oslo, Institutt for arkeologi, konservering og historie (University of Oslo, Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History)
  221. Universitetet i Tromsø (University of Tromsø)
  222. Université de Liège, Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire
  223. Université Paris 3, Institut des Hautes Etudes de l'Amérique Latine (IHEAL / Université Paris 3)
  224. University of California Press
  225. University of Florence, Department of Studies on the Middle Age and the Renaissance
  226. University of the Basque Country
  227. Universitätsverlag Göttingen
  228. Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe
  229. Vathek Publishing
  230. Verlagshaus Monsenstein und Vannerdat
  231. Western Agricultural Economics Association

Embargos Required

The following publishers listed on RoMEO allow authors to deposit the publisher version or PDF of their article in an Institutional Repository after an embargo period.

3 months
  1. Brookings Institutional Press
6 months
  1. American Geophysical Union
  2. American Heart Association
  3. American Meteorological Society
  4. Ecole Nationale Veterinaire de Toulouse
  5. Foundation for Rehabilitation Information
  6. HFSP Publishing
  7. Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical
  8. Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa (ESTeSL)
  9. International Glaciological Society
  10. Museu Nacional de Arqueologia
  11. Publindústria, Produção de Comunicação Lda
  12. Purdue University Press
  13. Selskabet for Oslo Byes Vel
  14. Society for Publication of Acta Dermato-Venereologica
  15. Tapir akademisk forlag (Tapir Academic Press)
  16. Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Centro Regional das Beiras, Departamento de Letras
  17. Universidade de Coimbra, Faculdade de Letras, Instituto de História Económica e Social
  18. Universidade de Lisboa, Centro de Estudos Geográficos
  19. Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Centro de Investigação e Estudos em Belas-Artes
  20. Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE), Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia (CIES) / Editora Mundos Sociais
  21. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública
  22. Universitetet i Bergen, Institutt for Fremmedspraak (University of Bergen. Department of Foreign Languages)

12 months
  1. American Arachnological Society (if Member)
  2. Botanical Society of America
  3. Cambridge University Press
  4. CSSALL Publishers
  5. Edinburgh University Press
  6. Finnish Zoological and Botanical Publishing Board
  7. Município de Aljustrel
  8. Paris Legal Publishers
  9. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health
  10. Schattauer
  11. Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft
  12. Society of Systematic Biologists
  13. Spandidos Publications
  14. Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa
  15. Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura (CECC)
  16. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
  17. University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press)
18 months
  1. Council of the KwaZulu-Natal Museum
  2. Industrial & Labor Relations Review
  3. Symposium Journals
24 months
  1. Chemical Engineering Education
  2. Division of Chemical Education, American Chemical Society
  3. Institute of Foresters of Australia
  4. Landslaget for lokalhistorie
  5. Modern Humanities Research Association
  6. Mycotaxon
  7. Presses de l'Ifpo
  8. School of Slavonic and East European Studies - Publisher PDF available on request
  9. Universidade de Coimbra, Centro de Estudos Sociais
  10. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press)
3 years
  1. 1. University of Pittsburgh, Department of Anthropology
4 years
  1. European Assosication of Fish Pathologists
  2. Inter Research
5 years
  1. Research Information
  2. Ulmer
Various embargo lengths
  1. University of Chicago Press - see individual journal policies for embargo length

Permission required

The following publishers listed on RoMEO allow authors to deposit the publisher version or PDF of their article in an Institutional Repository after permission has been obtained from the publisher.

  1. American Counseling Association
  2. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
  3. Editrice Kurtis
  4. International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (UK & Irl)
  5. International Atomic Energy Agency
  6. International Forum of Educational Technology and Society
  7. IP Publishing
  8. Journal of Information Systems Education
  9. Lawrence and Wishart
  10. New Century Health Publishers
  11. New Left Review
  12. Oceanography Society
  13. Old City Publishing
  14. Thomas Land Publishers (PDF on request)
  15. Turner White Communications
  16. University of Arizona Radiocarbon only
  17. University of Nottingham, Nottingham French Studies

Fee for the use of publisher version and an embargo period required

The following publishers listed on RoMEO allow authors to deposit the publisher version or PDF of their article in an Institutional Repository after payment of a fee and an embargo period.

  1. Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions - 12 months
  2. Clay Minerals Society - 24 months
  3. Entomological Society of America - 24 months
  4. IM Publications - no embargo
  5. Society for General Microbiology - 12 months

See also...

Publishers with Paid Options for Open Access - Note: These policies may not necessarily allow deposit in Institutional Repositories.

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