Self-Archiving Policies of Selected Publishers
| Publishers | Archive Formats Permitted |
| Academic Press (now part of Elsevier) | Post-refereed |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | Publisher's |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | Not Allowed |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | Publisher's |
| American Institute of Physics (AIP) | Post-refereed |
| American Mathematical Society (AMS) | Publisher's |
| American Physical Society (APS) | Post-refereed |
| American Society of Plant Biologists | Publisher's |
| Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Post-refereed |
| Association of Applied Biologists | Post-refereed |
| BioMed Central | Publisher's |
| Blackwell Publishing | Publisher's |
| BMJ Publishing Group | Publisher's |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | Publisher's |
| Company of Biologists | Publisher's |
| Ecological Society of America | Publisher's |
| Elsevier | Post-refereed |
| Emerald | Publisher's |
| Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | Publisher's |
| Institute of Mathematical Statistics | Publisher's |
| Institute of Physics (IOP) | Post-refereed |
| Institution of Chemical Engineers | Publisher's |
| Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) | Not Allowed |
| John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | Post-refereed |
| Kluwer (now part of Springer) | Post-refereed |
| Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. | Publisher's |
| Optical Society of America | Post-refereed |
| Materials Research Society | Publisher's |
| Nature Publishing Group | Publisher's |
| Professional Engineering Publishing (Institutional of Mechanical Engineers) | Publisher's |
| Royal Society of Chemistry | Publisher's |
| SAGE Publications (UK and US) | Post-refereed |
| Society for General Microbiology | Publisher's |
| Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) | Publisher's |
| Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) | Publisher's |
| Springer Verlag (Germany) | Post-refereed |
| Taylor & Francis | Pre-refereed |
| Pre-refereed version: Your first submitted draft to the publisher. |
| Post-refereed version: The final (author) version that is ready to be published. |
| Publisher's version: The published version as it appears in the journal, usually with copyright statement, citation and page numbers printed on the pages. |