Society for Reproduction and Fertility Re-use Licence:
Terms and conditions for the re-use of Open Access articles

The Society for Reproduction and Fertility makes some articles published in its journal freely available immediately upon publication, as a result of author-side financial support, usually funded by research funding bodies. These articles (hereafter referred to as ‘documents’) are also posted on PubMed Central (PMC) and PMC mirror sites. They are freely accessible and re-useable for non-commercial purposes, subject to the terms and conditions set out below.

Documents posted to PMC are protected by copyright and are posted to PMC by permission of the Society for Reproduction and Fertility. At the time of deposit, posted documents include all changes made during peer review, copyediting, and publishing. PMC and PMC mirror site host organizations are responsible for all links within the document and for incorporating any publisher-supplied amendments or retractions issued subsequently. For a document supported by a Free Access Fee, the definitive published journal article, guaranteed to be such by the Society for Reproduction and Fertility, is freely available to non-subscribers on the Society for Reproduction and Fertility's online publishing platforms (which currently include HighWire Press).

For non-commercial purposes users may access, download, copy, display and redistribute documents as well as adapt, translate, text and data mine content contained in documents, subject to the following conditions:

1. The authors' moral right to the integrity of their work is not compromised.

2. Where content in the document is identified as belonging to a third party, it is the obligation of the user to ensure that any reuse complies with copyright policies of the owner.

3. If document content is copied, downloaded or otherwise reused for non-commercial research and education purposes, a link to the appropriate bibliographic citation (authors, journal, article title, volume, issue, page numbers, DOI and the link to the definitive published version on HighWire Press) should be maintained. Copyright notices and disclaimers should not be deleted.

4. Use of documents for commercial purposes is prohibited. Commercial purposes include:

• Copying or downloading of documents, or linking to such postings, for further redistribution, sale or licensing, for a fee;
• Copying, downloading or posting by a site or service that incorporates advertising with such content;
• The inclusion or incorporation of document content in other works or services (other than normal quotations with an appropriate citation) that is then available for sale or licensing, for a fee.
• Use of documents or document content (other than normal quotations with appropriate citation) by for-profit organisations for promotional purposes, whether for a fee or otherwise.
• Use for the purposes of monetary reward by means of sale, resale, license, loan, transfer or other form of commercial exploitation.

5. Any translations, for which a prior translation agreement with the Society for Reproduction and Fertility has not been established, must prominently display the statement: “This is an unofficial translation of an article that appeared in a Society for Reproduction and Fertility publication. The Society for Reproduction and Fertility has not endorsed this translation.”

6. For permission to use documents beyond permitted here, contact the Society for Reproduction and Fertility's Permissions Secretary.

7. Documents of articles that appeared in the Society for Reproduction and Fertility's journal and that are hosted on PMC or PMC mirror sites were developed during the publication process of the definitive published journal article that appears on the Society for Reproduction and Fertility's electronic publishing platforms (currently including HighWire Press). Documents posted to PubMed Central are without warranty from the Society for Reproduction and Fertility of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. In no event shall the Society for Reproduction and Fertility be liable for any loss or damage arising out of, or in connection, with the use or performance of this information.