Permissions and Fees to Use BioScience Content

AIBS authorizes photocopying and electronic reproduction of material in BioScience (ISSN 0006-3568) for academic and commercial use provided the appropriate fee is paid to the Copyright Clearance Center. Please see below for details.

How do you plan to use BioScience content?

Please follow the link which best describes your copyright permissions needs.

• I want to photocopy BioScience content for use in coursepacks or course handouts at an academic institution. »use APS

• I want to use BioScience content in electronic format as reference materials for college or university classes, for example, electronic coursepacks, electronic reserves, and distance learning. »use ECCS

• I want to republish, reproduce, or redistribute BioScience content in a multitude of formats, including books, CD-ROMs, and serials. »use RLS

• I want to use BioScience content in electronic formats such as e-mail, Internet, intranet, extranet, or mailing lists. »use DPS

• I am a library, copy shop, document supplier, or information broker. »use TRS

• I am an author published in BioScience.

How To Use The Copyright Clearance Center

1. 1. Go to www.copyright.com.

2. 2. Select your content user status (business, academic, or service provider).

3. 3. Select your intended use of the content.

4. 4. Select BioScience as the publication title, or search on BioScience's ISSN of 00063568.

5. 5. Complete the online forms and payment processing. Special cases in which BioScience staff should be contacted directly for permission are noted below.

6. 6. CCC provides permissions but not the copyrighted content itself. If you require the electronic media for which you have purchased permission, please contact AIBS as detailed below.

Usage Categories and Pricing

Academic Permissions Service (APS)

$0.05 per page + CCC processing fee

Get permission and pay the fee via CCC's APS to photocopy BioScience content for use in coursepacks or course handouts at an academic institution. There is no charge for the use of figures, tables, illustrations (cartoons not available), charts, photos, graphs, and quotes of up to one paragraph — please contact BioScience directly for a letter of permission: ; 202-628-1500 x209.

Electronic Course Content Service (ECCS)

$0.058 per page + CCC processing fee

Get permission and pay the fee via CCC's ECCS to use BioScience content in electronic format as reference materials for college or university classes — e.g., electronic coursepacks, electronic reserves, and distance learning. There is no charge for the use of figures, tables, illustrations (cartoons not available), charts, photos, graphs, and quotes of up to one paragraph — please contact BioScience directly for a letter of permission: ; 202-628-1500 x209.

Republication Licensing Service (RLS)

see pricing online at CCC

Get permission and pay the fee via CCC's RLS to republish, reproduce, or redistribute BioScience content in a multitude of formats, including books, CD-ROMs, and serials (journals, newsletters, etc.). There is no charge for the use of figures, tables, illustrations (cartoons not available), charts, photos, graphs, and quotes of up to one paragraph — please contact BioScience directly for a letter of permission: ; 202-628-1500 x209.

Digital Permissions Service (DPS)

see pricing online at CCC

Get permission and pay the fee via CCC's DPS to use BioScience content in electronic formats such as e-mail, Internet, intranet, extranet, or digital transmission (e.g., electronic faxing). There is no charge for the use of figures, tables, illustrations (cartoons not available), charts, photos, graphs, and quotes of up to one paragraph — please contact BioScience directly for a letter of permission: ; 202-628-1500 x209.

Transactional Reporting Service (TRS)

Base plus $0.50 per page + CCC processing fee

Are you an academic library with a need to make and distribute photocopies of BioScience content? Are you a copy shop, document supplier, or information broker with a need to make photocopies of BioScience content for clients? Get permission and pay the fee via CCC's Transactional Reporting Service.

Note About Electronic Media

After the permission fee has been paid to CCC, electronic files may be obtained from AIBS in PDF format in one of the following three ways:

• Subscribers to BioScience may go to www.aibs.org/bioscience/current_issue.html and download a web-quality PDF copy of the article [register to become a BioScience subscriber and AIBS member]
• Nonsubscribers may purchase a web-quality PDF copy of the article at www.aibs.org/bioscience/current_issue.html
• Persons wishing to purchase a print-quality PDF file of the article may contact ; 202-628-1500 x209; the cost is $150.00.