Thieme Sharing GuideMaximise the impact and visibility of your article

DOI Link

Green OA

Any other usage

Thieme endorses the STM Voluntary article sharing principles to enable collaboration, professional relationships and advances in science and discovery. We want you to share your research with colleagues and maximize its visibility and impact, at every stage of publication.

Maximize impactShare DOI Link to published article on Thieme-connect with your peers

Increase awareness Link DOI on social media

Share your article • On your non-commercial personal homepage or blog • Upon request with your students or research

collaborators for their personal use

Gold OAGold Open Access – CC-BYYou can do anything as long as • You give credit

The article is under a CC-BY-NC-ND licenseYou can do anything as long as• You don’t modify • You only use it for a

non-commercial purpose• You give credit

Green Open Access –share your Accepted Manuscript ...

immediately• For grant applications, thesis or doctorate• Upon invitation only for research collaboration groups

after 12 months• On Scholarly Collaboration Networks (SCNs)

signed up to the STM Voluntary article sharing principles

• On not-for-profi t hosting platforms such as your institutional repository

... as long as• It is not altered or enhanced• Please include a link to the fi nal published version via its DOI

along with the following text: „This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Thieme Publishing Group in Journal Title on Publication Date, available online at https://www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/article DOI“

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Article Sharing

Thieme endorses the STM Voluntary article sharing principles to enable collaboration,

professional relationships and advances in science and discovery.

We want you to share your research with colleagues and maximize its visibility and

impact, at every stage of publication. The below guidelines will help you to understand

how you can share your articles, depending on the article version you wish to re-use.

DOI Link to the published article on Thieme-connect

One easy way to maximize the impact of your research is to share the DOI linking to

your article on Thieme-connect with your colleagues, friends, business contacts, and on

your institutional profile page. You can also increase awareness posting the link on social

media or professional and academic networking sites.

Accepted Manuscript

You can share the peer-reviewed, accepted version of your article (Accepted Manuscript,

AM) without any alterations or enhancements:

Immediately

As part of a grant application or submission of thesis or doctorate

In invitation-only research collaboration groups via sites entered into an

agreement with Thieme.

After an embargo period of 12 months

On Scholarly Collaboration Networks (SCNs) which have signed up to the STM

Voluntary article sharing principles.

On not-for-profit hosting platforms such as your institutional repository, for

example at your affiliated institution or non-commercial subject-based

repositories, such as PMC, Europe PMC.

The Accepted Manuscript should always

Include a link from your posted AM to the final published version on Thieme-

connect via its DOI.

Include the following text: "This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published

by Thieme Publishing Group in Journal Title on Publication Date, available online at

https://www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/article DOI"

Published Journal Article.

We welcome you to always include a link to the final article as published (Version of

Record) as it contains a DOI as permanent identifier and will help your fellow scientists

and researchers to find, cite, and use always the final version of your article.

Subscription articles

You can also share the Version of Record on your non-commercial personal homepage or

blog directly by providing a copy upon request to your students or research collaborators

for their personal use.

If you want to share the Version of Record in any other way, please

contact permission@thieme.de.

If you have chosen to publish your article as Gold Open Access, please see below.

Gold open access articles

If your article has been published Gold Open Access under a CC-BY_NC-ND license, it can

be copied, distributed, and displayed as long as

your work is given credit,

your work is not being modified

your work is used for a non-commercial purpose.

Other use cases

Please contact permission@thieme.de if you would like to share your work on a Scholarly

Collaboration Network which has not signed up to the STM Voluntary article sharing

principles –

on an e-learning platform

for any commercial purpose, on an institutional or company repository

in any other publication

For further information on Open Access please visit

http://www.thieme.com/media/ita/Open_access_publishing_author_information.pdf

For further information on Creative Commons licenses please go

to https://creativecommons.org/.