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Under NPG’s terms of reuse, users may view, print, copy, download and text-mine and data-mine the content for the purposes of academic research. Re-use should only be for academic purposes, commercial reuse is not permitted. Full conditions are available on nature.com.
David Hoole, head of content licensing, said: “NPG supports reuse for academic purposes of the content we publish. We want the research we publish to help further discovery, and recognize that data-mining and text-mining are important aspects of that.”
The terms were developed in consultation with the Wellcome Trust, the leading biomedical research charity. The re-use permissions apply to author manuscripts, of articles published in NPG’s journals, which have been archived in PubMed Central, UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) and other institutional and subject repositories. NPG’s re-use terms will be included in the metadata of these archived manuscripts.
“The Wellcome Trust was keen to expand the Open Access articles available on UKPMC,” said Hoole. “We wanted to clarify the copyrights and terms of reuse for archived content, so that we could offer NPG author manuscripts for the UKPMC open access subset.”
This move is the next step in NPG’s support for self-archiving and its objective to encourage authors of original research articles to self-archive the accepted version of their manuscript, for public access six months after publication.
43 journals published by NPG offer a free manuscript deposition service to help authors fulfil funder and institutional mandates for public access. NPG's Manuscript Deposition Service will deposit authors' accepted manuscripts with PMC and UK PubMed Central (UKPMC). NPG is currently working with partners to expand this to other repositories using the SWORD protocol.
