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Permissions Policy

Permissions Policy

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The American Society for Nutrition (ASN) holds copyright for The Journal of Nutrition (JN) and The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN). Uses beyond those allowed by the "Fair Use" limitations (sections 107 and 108) of the U.S. Copyright Law require permission of the publisher. However, when an abstract appears at the beginning of an article, it may be reproduced of translated for noncommercial purposes without specific permission, provided the original citation is included.


Rights of Authors


Effective upon acceptance for publication, the American Society for Nutrition will license the following nonexclusive rights back to authors:

  1. Patent and trademark rights to any process or procedure described in the article.
  2. The right to photocopy or make single electronic copies of the article for their own personal use, including for their own classroom use, or for the personal use of colleagues, provided the copies are not offered for sale and are not distributed in a systematic way outside of their employing institution (e.g. via an email list or public file server). Posting of the article on a secure network (not accessible to the public) within the author's institution is permitted.
  3. The right, subsequent to publication, to use the article or any part thereof free of charge in a printed compilation of works of their own, such as collected writings, theses or lecture notes.
  4. The right to reuse their original figures and tables in their future works.
  5. The right to present data from their paper at a meeting or conference, including ones that are webcast.
  6. The right to include their article in their thesis or dissertation.
  7. Authors may post a link on a personal website that directs readers to the article on the journals' websites (jn.nutrition.org or ajcn.nutrition.org); full text of the final, published article cannot be posted on personal or institutional websites or repositories that are accessible to the public.
  8. For Works created under a grant from the NIH and accepted for publication after April 7, 2008: The principal investigators (PIs) of NIH-funded research grants that support work published in peer-reviewed journals must comply with a new NIH policy to have deposited any accepted manuscripts on the PubMed Central website. Authors whose papers are funded by NIH grants will be invoiced to have their papers deposited into the PubMed repository by ASN upon publication ($45 for non-members, $20 for ASN members). The JN policy is to make articles free online on our website as well as in the NIH repository 12 months after publication. This will satisfy both the JN and NIH policies.
Authors must comply with the following requirements: 
  1. Figures or tables cannot be used in advertisements
  2. The citation appearing at the bottom of the first page of the article must appear with any figures or tables
  3. When publishing either the entire article or specific parts of the article, complete credit should be given to the original source:
    J. Nutr. (year;volume:page range), American Society for Nutrition or
    Am. J. Clin. Nutr. (year;volume:page range), American Society for Nutrition.