A link for a given publisher or journal,
which generally allows you to figure out what is permitted.
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
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American Chemical Society ... Copyright permissions
http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/display-copyright?achre4
The ACS Publications Division Copyright Office accepts a via e-mail.
copyright@acs.org
Permission is automatically granted to include your paper(s) or portions of your paper(s) in your thesis.
http://pubs.acs.org/instruct/dissertation.doc
Please pay special attention to the implications paragraph below ...
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Royal Society of Chemistry ... License to publish.
http://www.rsc.org/images/coplic_tcm18-21038.pdf
4. The Author(s) may, without seeking permission from the RSC:
(a) reproduce/republish portions of the Work (including the abstract);
(b) photocopy the Work and distribute such photocopies and distribute copies of the PDF of the Paper that the RSC makes available to the corresponding Author of the Paper upon publication of the Work for personal or professional use only, provided that any such copies are not offered for sale;
(c) republish the Work in the theses of the Author(s) in printed form and make available the PDF of the Paper mentioned in (b) above in the theses of Author(s) via any internal website that the university of the Author(s) may have for the deposition of theses;
(d) make available the PDF of the Paper mentioned in (b) above via the personal website(s) of the Author(s) or via the Intranet of the organisation(s) where the Author(s) works; (Persons who receive or access the PDFs mentioned in (b), (c) or (d) above must be notified that these may not be further made available or distributed.)
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Wiley-VCH
Permission for complete articles in a thesis can be granted both print and
electronic, but please note that a permission request for each article is
necessary.
Permission for electronic usage can only be granted if you can assure that
the website on which the article will be posted is password protected.
Permission for electronic usage is limited to three years.
Kindly send your requests to rights@wiley-vch.de
Item 5
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... exclusively for three years from the date on which the article is published and thereafter for the full term of copyright, including any future extensions, on a non-exclusive basis all publishing rights...
Thus, the electronic permission is only valid for three years, from the original publication date, after which it is unnecessary, since Wiley will no longer have exclusive rights.
