Open Access Option License Form

Open Access Option License Form

This form is to be completed by authors who choose to publish their article on an Open Access basis (i.e. the full text of the Article can be accessed by readers without charge).

Please read this form carefully and sign on page 2. If your employer owns copyright in your work, please arrange for your employer to sign where indicated.

Please return a copy of this form us as quickly as possible. You (or your employer, where appropriate) will remain the copyright owner of the Article.

We will not be able to proceed to publication until we have received a signed copy of both this Open Access License Form and the accompanying Payment Authorization Form.

Author Name
Author Address
Article Title
Author names (in the order in which they appear in the article)

You hereby grant Future Science Ltd an exclusive license to publish the above article (the “Article”) including the abstract in printed and electronic form, in all languages. For the purposes of this license, the Article is considered to include all material submitted for publication with the exception of any correspondence or communication, and includes the text, figures, tables, author contact details and all supplementary material (e.g. video clips) accompanying the Article.

Terms of license

You retain the following rights to re-use the Article:

After acceptance for publication, and provided that appropriate acknowledgement of the journal, publisher and full bibliographic reference are given, you may use the published version of the Article in the following ways:

·  Sharing of print or electronic copies of the Article with colleagues;

·  Use of all, or part, of the Article and abstract in personal compilations or other scholarly publications of your own work (including receipt of a royalty or other payment for such work);

·  Use of the Article within an employer’s institution or company for educational or research purposes, including use in educational course packs;

·  Posting of the final PDF of the Article on a personal website, an employer’s website/repository or free public servers relating to the theme of the Article.

Electronic versions of the accepted Article should include the following statement: ‘Author Posting. © The Authors {YEAR}. This is the author's version of the work. For full bibliographic citation, please refer to {JOURNAL), {VOL (ISS.) PAGE X-Y}. http://www.future-science.com/doi/{DOI Number}

Third parties will be entitled to re-use the Article, in whole or in part, in accordance with the conditions outlined in the Creative Commons Deed, Attribution 4.0 (further details from www.creativecommons.org), which allows Open Access dissemination of your work.

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In signing this Agreement:

You agree that Future Science may use the article in whole or in part in any marketing material or other communication by the company. You also authorize Future Science to act on your behalf to defend the copyright in the Article should there be any infringement, although there is no obligation on Future Science to do so.

Please note: Figures produced in house by Future Science Group remain the copyright of Future Science Group and permission must be granted for re-use. Figures under such copyright will be labelled as so in the published version. Authors retain the rights to their original Figures, and the copyright holder retains the right to all other Figures.

Please tick only one of the three boxes below

The copyright belongs to me (and co-authors, if applicable)

This is the standard option taken by our authors.

OR

The copyright belongs to my employer

OR

The Article is in the public domain and no license to publish is therefore necessary (see below)

This latter option means your work is in the public domain and you waive your rights to the work, and thus others can re-use your work without citing it. Please do not take this option unless you are required to. Please read the information at http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ before taking this option.

Please note

The copyright holder grants Future Science an exclusive license to publish the Article including the abstract in printed and electronic form, in all languages, and to administer subsidiary rights agreements with third parties for the full period of copyright and all renewals, extensions, revisions and revivals.

Please complete the sections below

Signature (on behalf of all co-authors)
Print name:
Name of Copyright holder:

This will be printed on the copyright line on each page of the Article. It is your responsibility to provide the correct information of the copyright holder.

If the Copyright belongs to the employer please complete this section

Where an employer claims copyright the work, this form must also be signed below by a person authorized to sign for and on behalf of the employer, as confirmation that the employer accepts the terms of this license.

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author prints

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Please send me a quote for 100 colour author prints

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Please send me black and white author prints at GBR£357 per set of 100

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Wellcome trust-funded articles

If your article is Wellcome Trust-funded, please provide the relevant grant number below. This information is needed to ensure immediate upload to UK PubMed Central.
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The rights conveyed in this license will apply only upon acceptance of your Article for publication.

NIH-funded authors

Future Science complies with NIH policy and will submit an electronic version of the final peer-reviewed manuscript of all NIH-funded authors to the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central to be made freely available no later than 12 months post-publication. If the work discussed in your manuscript has been fully or partly NIH funded, please fill out the section below in addition to signing the copyright agreement above. Future Science will submit your manuscript to the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central on your behalf in compliance with NIH policy. I hereby warrant that the work discussed in the above manuscript arose, in whole or in part, from direct costs funded by NIH, or from NIH staff.

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US Federal Government Employees

I hereby warrant that I am an employee of the US Federal Government and that the article has been written within this capacity

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