Policies

IEEE policy requires that prior to publication all authors or their employers must transfer to the IEEE in writing any copyright they hold for their individual papers. Transferring copyright is a necessary requirement for publication, except for material in the public domain or which is reprinted with permission from a previously published, copyrighted publication.

Upon transferring copyright to IEEE, authors and/or their companies have the right to post their IEEE-copyrighted material on their own servers without permission, provided that the server displays a prominent notice alerting readers to their obligations with respect to copyrighted material and that the posted work includes an IEEE copyright notice.

Authors are particularly encouraged to note the “Author Responsibilities” section of the IEEE Copyright Form, in which portions of IEEE Policies 6.3B (concerning statements in work published by IEEE are the expression of the authors), and IEEE Policies 6.4 (concerning the submission of original work) appear.

Links

Here are links to the full policies referred to above.

IEEE POLICIES, 6.3, General Policies

IEEE POLICIES, 6.3.1 A(7), IEEE Copyright Policies

IEEE POLICIES, 6.4.1 Publication Principles

IEEE PSPB Operations Manual, 8.1.10 D. Personal Servers

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