This document summarizes a presentation given by two publishing professionals on their company's policies around sharing digital content. Their business includes publishing medical journals and books. Their sharing policies allow the final published version to be used for promotion, teaching, and conferences. The author's accepted version can also be shared after an embargo on personal websites and some repositories. However, open access repositories and social media are not allowed. Their rationale is that they have a for-profit business model and invest significant resources into hosting, reviewing, and preserving content long-term. They believe their policies balance dissemination with protecting their investment.
2. Jennifer A. Kilpatrick, ELS
Vice President, Editorial, Health Care Books and Journals
@jenkilpatrick
Karen G. Stanwood, ELS
Editorial Director, Health Care Books and Journals
@KGStanwood
4. Sharing Policies and Allowed Uses
Final Publisher Version
• Promotion/tenure packet
• Personal sharing with colleagues
• Teaching/training
• Conferences
• Dissertations, theses, or grant applications
5. Sharing Policies and Allowed Uses (cont’d)
Author’s Accepted Version
(IN ADDITION TO ALLOWED USES OF FINAL PUBLISHER VERSION)
Allowed with embargo
• Author’s personal, noncommercial website or blog
• Closed institutional repositories
• Funding repository
• Scholarly collaboration networks (eg, ResearchGate, Academia.edu)
Not allowed
• Open access institutional repositories
• Social media
Abstract, Link to Article on Healio.com, and Citation
Allowed in all uses
6. Rationale for Policies
• Conservative
• For-profit business model
• Most content not publicly funded
• Protect our investment in content
7. Investment in Resources
• Platform hosting, upgrades, and maintenance
• Ecommerce and content management systems
• Peer review system, XML conversion, analytics
• Memberships, such as STM, COPE, SSP, Crossref
• Long-term preservation of content – Portico
• Staff investment
8. Benefits for Researchers/Authors
• Sharing of the publisher version for educational/academic purposes
• Fairly liberal policies related to author-accepted version
• Author complimentary access and sharing
• Deposit of content and data to increase discoverability
9. Benefits for Researchers/Authors (cont’d)
• Altmetrics and citation data
• Rights registration and protection, plagiarism checks, guidance on
ethical issues, and anti-piracy measures
• Maintain integrity of the scholarly record; long-term archiving
• Explore partnerships/initiatives to increase audience
10. Publishers can be good partners with authors to
disseminate their work as the digital landscape evolves.