Access Policy

Broad access to the research literature is important to American Psychiatric Association Publishing. Twelve months after publication, American Psychiatric Association Publishing grants the public free full-text access to all content in The American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Services, Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, and the American Journal of Psychotherapy. The rights of our authors are also important to American Psychiatric Association Publishing, which acknowledges authors’ right to deposit their peer-reviewed Accepted Manuscript (i.e., the version incorporating all modifications from the peer review process but before copyediting, graphic design, formatting, and other work to produce the final published article is performed) in public or institutional repositories for public release as mandated by their funding agency.

At the time of submission, authors are asked to check one of the following options to provide guidance to American Psychiatric Association Publishing if the manuscript is accepted for publication:

1. This article stems from research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and is thereby subject to the NIH Revised Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research (Public Access Policy). Checking this option means that should the manuscript be accepted for publication American Psychiatric Association Publishing is authorized to submit on the author’s behalf the Accepted Manuscript to the National Institutes of Health Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) system.
2. This article stems from research not funded by NIH but my funder stipulates that the journal must allow deposit of the Accepted Manuscript (the version incorporating all modifications from the peer review process but before copyediting, graphic design, formatting, and other work to produce the final published article is performed) in other repositories without restrictions on re-use under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. Checking this option means that should the manuscript be accepted for publication the author is responsible for self-archiving the Accepted Manuscript into a funder-specified repository for public viewing after an embargo period mutually agreed upon by all parties (0 days [i.e., immediately upon publication] to 12 months).
3. There are no stipulations set forth regarding public access to the article. Checking this option means 12 months after publication, the full text of the official version of the article will be freely available to the public on the journal’s Web site.

Additional Information

American Journal of Psychiatry
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Psychiatric Services
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FOCUS
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Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
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American Journal of Psychiatry Residents’ Journal
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American Journal of Psychotherapy
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