Policies for JTRP Technical Reports

Contents

• Alternative Text
• Clearances and Copyrighted Material
• Patent/Intellectual Property Embargo Policy

Alternative Text

In order to comply with recent updates to US law, alt text is now required for all photos, drawings, charts, graphs, equations, etc., included in JTRP publications.

Upon submission, authors should provide alt text for all figures and equations in their work. Supplying alt text is a mandatory responsibility of the authors, and no work will be published without it.

See the JTRP Alt Text Guidelines and Resources for more information.

Clearances and Copyrighted Material

Authors must secure necessary clearances and written permissions for publication from any contracting or supervisory agencies involved in the research or from holders of copyrights on material used in the report. Authors must have agreement from coauthors or coworkers before submitting reports for publication by JTRP, and all contributions to the work must be properly acknowledged.

If a paper accepted for publication contains previously copyrighted material, authors must obtain written permission from the copyright holder(s). When drafting a report manuscript, authors should keep track of any material that may require permission. JTRP will assume the authors have obtained this permission before submission of the manuscript. If at any point you have a question, please contact the JTRP Assistant Production Editor.

Copyright on JTRP reports is retained by author(s). As part of the report submission process, author(s) grant a non-exclusive license to publish JTRP reports. Authors are free to publish material elsewhere, but permission from the JTRP Director should be requested.

Copyright Permissions

Unless otherwise indicated, the content in JTRP's technical report publications are copyrighted and may not be reproduced without prior written permission from the author. All requests to reproduce copyrighted materials must be submitted to the JTRP Assistant Production Editor

Patent/Intellectual Property Embargo Policy

Authors who wish to delay publication of their JTRP technical report while they investigate filing a patent application must send this request to the JTRP Assistant Production Editor. Upon receipt of the request, Purdue University Scholarly Publishing will agree to delay publication for 3 months. During this 3-month embargo, the author is expected to contact Purdue Research Foundation’s Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) and submit a disclosure form to the OTC. At the conclusion of the 3-month embargo period, JTRP editorial staff will contact the OTC to confirm that the author has filed the disclosure form and is working with OTC to complete the process. Purdue University Scholarly Publishing will continue to embargo the report and will not publish until it receives confirmation from OTC that it is safe to do so. If the author has failed to contact the OTC at the conclusion of the initial 3-month embargo, Purdue University Scholarly Publishing will end the embargo and publish the report on Purdue e-Pubs.