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Publishers that allow reuse of content without permission
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- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Actar (urbanNext)
- Adam Matthew
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- America’s Barometer
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- American Ceramic Society
- American Energy Society
- American Mathematical Society Ebooks
- American Medical Association
- American Meteorological Society
- Annual Reviews
- American Physical Society (APS)
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- Aviation Week
- Begell House
- CABI Publishing
- Cairn
- China Academic Journals (CNKI)
- Constellate
- CQ Press Electronic Library
- CSIRO Publishing
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Database of Recorded American Music
- DeGruyter Ebooks
- DETAIL Inspiration
- Dun & Bradstreet
- East View Geospatial LandScan Global Archive
- Elsevier
- Emerald
- Endpoints News
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World
- Foreign Affairs
- Foreign Policy
- Forrester Research
- Gale
- Gartner
- Geological Society of America
- Global Financial Database
- Harper Collins / Collins Bartholomew
- Health News Daily
- IET Ebooks (Institution of Engineering and Technology)
- Inderscience Publishers
- Insider Intelligence
- IEEE
- Institute of Physics (IOP)
- IPA Source
- Liberties Journal
- MADCAD Building Codes
- Manchester University Press ebooks
- Material ConneXion
- Microbiology Society
- Microform Academic Publishers
- Mintel Academic
- Now Publishers
- Opars Books
- OpenEdition Books
- Oxford University Press
- Philosophy Documentation Center
- PitchBook
- Planet
- Polish Academy of Sciences
- Preqin
- Project MUSE
- ProQuest
- PsycARTICLES
- PLOS
- Readex / Newsbank
- ReferenceUSA Business Historical Data Files
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
- SAE Mobilus
- Sage
- Sins Invalid
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
- SPIE Digital Library
- SpringerNature
- Stat Plus
- Taylor & Francis
- Technical Library of the ASABE
- Thieme (NERL)
- Thomson One
- University of Michigan Press
- Vivvix
- Wiley
- With Intelligence
- Woods & Poole Complete US Database
- World Scientific Publishing
- Yale University Press
Other publisher statements
About a dozen publishers have agreed to a policy statement produced by the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers that allows similar reuses without permission, including the American Chemical Society, BMJ Publishing Group, the Institute of Physics, the International Union of Crystallography, Oxford University Press Journals, Portland Press, the Royal Society of Chemistry. See the linked document for details.