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THE JOURNAL PUBLISHING AGREEMENTAssignment of copyright
I hereby assign to the Copyright Owner the copyright in the manuscript identified above (where Crown Copyright is asserted, authors agree to grantan exclusive publishing and distribution license) and any tables, illustrations or other material submitted for publication as part of the manuscript (the“Article”). This assignment of rights means that I have granted to the Copyright Owner the exclusive right to publish and reproduce the Article, or
any part of the Article, in print, electronic and all other media (whether now known or later developed), in any form, in all languages, throughout theworld, for the full term of copyright, and the right to license others to do the same, effective when the Article is accepted for publication. Thisincludes the right to enforce the rights granted hereunder against third parties.
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DEFINITIONS
Accepted Manuscript
The manuscript of an Article that has been accepted for publication and which typically includes author-incorporated changes suggested duringsubmission, peer review, and editor-author communications. The Accepted Manuscript should not be added to or enhanced in any way to appear
more like, or to substitute for, the Published Journal Article. The Accepted Manuscript should include a link to the formal publication through therelevant DOI.
Commercial Use
The use or posting of Articles:for commercial gain – for example by associating advertising with the full-text of the Article, by providing hosting services to otherrepositories or to other organizations, or charging fees for document delivery or access;to substitute for the services provided directly by the publisher – for example article aggregation, systematic distribution via e-mail lists orshare buttons, posting, indexing or linking by commercial companies for use by customers of such companies (e.g. pharmaceuticalcompanies and physician-prescribers).
Internal Institutional Use
Use by the author's institution for classroom teaching at the institution and for internal training purposes (including distribution of copies, paper orelectronic, and use in course packs and courseware programs, but not in MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses) and inclusion of the Article inapplications for grant funding. For authors employed by companies, the use by that company for internal training purposes.
Personal Use
Use by an author in the author’s classroom teaching (including distribution of copies, paper or electronic) or presentation by an author at a meeting orconference (including distribution of copies to the delegates attending such meeting), distribution of copies (including through e-mail) to known
research colleagues for their personal use, use in a subsequent compilation of the author’s works, inclusion in a thesis or dissertation, preparation ofother derivative works such as extending the Article to book-length form, or otherwise using or re-using portions or excerpts in other works (with fullacknowledgment of the original publication of the Article).
Preprint
Author’s own write-up of research results and analysis that has not been peer reviewed, nor had any other value added to it by a publisher (such asformatting, copy editing, technical enhancements, and the like). Preprints should not be added to or enhanced in any way in order to appear more
like, or to substitute for, the Published Journal Article.
Published Journal Article
The definitive final record of published research that appears or will appear in the journal and embodies all value-adding publisher activities
including peer review co-ordination, copy-editing, formatting, (if relevant) pagination, and online enrichment.
Scholarly Sharing
Preprint: Sharing of Preprints by an author on any website or repository at any time. When the Article is accepted, the author is encouraged toinclude a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI. The author can also update the Preprint on arXiv or RePEc with the AcceptedManuscript.
Accepted Manuscript:
immediately on acceptance: sharing of the Accepted Manuscript by an author: via the author’s non-commercial personal homepage or blog
 via the author’s research institute or institutional repository for Internal Institutional Use or as part of an invitation-only researchcollaboration work-group directly by providing copies to the author’s students or to research collaborators for their personal use for private scholarly sharing as part of an invitation-only work group on commercial sites with which the publisher has a hosting
agreement
Published Journal Article: the author may share a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI. Additionally theses and dissertations
which contain embedded Published Journal Articles as part of the formal submission may be hosted publicly by the awarding institution with a linkto the formal publication through the relevant DOI. Any other sharing of Published Journal Articles is by agreement with the publisher only.