ASCE grants $0 license to authors who request to reuse their own content. The content may be used as follows:
A credit line must be added to the ASCE-copyrighted content. See Terms and Conditions for guidelines.
Restrictions
The following restrictions also apply:
- Permission is denied if the content you request is within 3 months of the publication date. This condition is referred to as Embargo.
- Permission is denied if you request to republish an entire article from an ASCE journal in a non-ASCE journal.
- Permission is denied if you request to post the published version of your article on a website that is not password protected. You have the option to post on the internet the final draft of your article.
- Permission is denied by Rightslink© if the requested content constitutes more than 25% of your new work in a book publication.
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If you wish to photocopy your content, the total number of copies can not exceed 100. If you need more than 100 copies, see Reprints.
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If the request is for an online coursepack, the site must be password protected and posted for the semester only.
- If the content has been prepared by an employee within the scope of employment, the employer shall have the right to make copies of the content for its own internal use.
- If the content was prepared under a U.S. Government contract, the government shall have the rights under the copyright law to the extent required by the contract.
Posting papers on the Internet
What authors can do:
Authors may post a PDF reproduction of the ASCE-published version of their work on their employers' intranet sites ONLY when: 1) 90 days have passed since publication by ASCE; 2) the intranet site is password protected; and 3) access is restricted to company employees.
Authors may post the final draft of their work on open, unrestricted Internet sites or deposit the final draft in an institutional repository ONLY when: 1) 90 days have passed since publication by ASCE and 2) the draft contains a link to the bibliographic record of the published version in ASCE's Civil Engineering Database (http://cedb.asce.org ). "Final draft" means the version submitted to ASCE after peer review and prior to copyediting or other ASCE production activities; it does not include the copyedited version, the page proof, or a PDF of the published version.
What authors cannot do:
Authors are not permitted at any time to post a PDF reproduction of the ASCE-published version of their work to open, unrestricted Internet sites or to place these PDFs in institutional repositories UNLESS the authors first obtain explicit written permission to do so from ASCE.