Rights and Permissions
ASME Journals Digital Submission Tool Guidelines and Information
Rights and Permissions
Assignment of Copyright
ASME requests that authors/copyright owners assign copyright to ASME in order for a journal paper to be published by ASME. Authors exempt from this request are direct employees of the U.S. Government, whereby papers are not subject to copyright protection in the U.S., or non-U.S. government employees, whose governments hold the copyright to the paper.
For more information on copyright, please view the Copyright Transfer information page.
Retained Rights of Authors
Authors retain all proprietary rights in any idea, process, procedure, or articles of manufacture described in the Paper, including the right to seek patent protection for them. Authors may perform, lecture, teach, conduct related research, display all or part of the Paper, and create derivative works in print or electronic format. Authors may reproduce and distribute the Paper for non-commercial purposes only. Non-commercial applies only to the sale of the paper per se. For all copies of the Paper made by Authors, Authors must acknowledge ASME as original publisher and include the names of all author(s), the publication title, and an appropriate copyright notice that identifies ASME as the copyright holder.
Permissions
Once your paper has been published by ASME, you may wish to submit it for inclusion in a non-ASME publication or to incorporate some or all of its elements in another work. Since ASME is the legal holder of copyright for its papers, it will be necessary for you to secure the permission of the copyright holder to have its material published in another source.
In order to submit a permssion request for Journal papers, Conference papers and ASME Press papers, all permissions must be submitted online. Please go to https://marketplace.copyright.com/rs-ui-web/mp to submit your request with Copyright Clearance Center Marketplace.
Here is the resource center for instructions on how to submit your request: https://www.copyright.com/mbrc/.
If you are unable to find the content you are searching for, please try to search at the title/journal level instead of the specific article. There is a LIVE CHAT function on the top right side of the page. You can also use the live chat for assistance!
If you still having issues with submitting your request, please feel free to contact us at: permissions@asme.org.