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The corresponding author of articles published in Archives of General Psychiatry receives 25 free e-prints of the article (if the author's e-mail address is published with the article) and receives e-mail alerts when the article is cited by HighWire-hosted journals. Reprints for authors are also available.
Clinical Trial Registration
In concert with the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), Archives of General Psychiatry will require, as a condition of consideration for publication, registration of clinical trials in a public trials registry. Acceptable trial registries include http://clinicaltrials.gov, http://isrctn.org, http://actr.org.au, http://trialregister.nl, and http://www.umin.ac.jp/ctr. For this purpose, the ICMJE defines a clinical trial as any study that prospectively assigns human subjects to intervention or comparison groups to evaluate the cause-and-effect relationships between a medical intervention and a health outcome. Studies designed for other purposes, such as to study pharmacokinetics or major toxicity (eg, phase 1 trials), are exempt. The trial registry name and URL and the registration number should be included at the end of the abstract. Trials must be registered at or before the onset of patient enrollment. This policy applies to any clinical trial starting enrollment after March 1, 2006. For trials that began enrollment before this date, registration was required by June 1, 2006. Click here for more information about trial registration (ie, which trials must be registered and the minimum data that need to be registered): http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/293/23/2927.
Depositing Research Manuscripts With an Approved Public Repository
All Archives Journal articles reporting original research are made freely available 12 months after publication, from 1998 forward, subject to certain conditions. The Archives Journals’ Editors and Publishers believe that the public is best served by accessing the freely available research articles on the journal site, to ensure access to the final published version, any corrections, and related Web features. However, some funding organizations require that authors of manuscripts reporting research deposit those manuscripts with an approved public repository, such as PubMed Central. Authors have the Archives Journals’ permission on the following conditions:
- Permission is granted only for manuscripts reporting research funded by not-for-profit organizations to be deposited in not-for-profit, publicly available repositories.
- Permission is granted to post only the manuscript reporting research that was submitted and accepted for publication but not the final, edited, formatted, and published article.
- Authors must ensure that the posted manuscript links back to the published article on the Archives Journals Web site to provide readers with access to the final reviewed and edited version plus any corrections and letters, as well as the article-related features only available on the Archives Journals Web site.
- Authors who submit their manuscripts to an approved public repository, such as PubMed Central, must indicate that the manuscript may not be made available to the public sooner than 12 months after publication in the Archives Journals.
If authors adhere to these requirements, they may submit the final accepted version of the manuscript to the repository, if and only if the repository ensures that the deposited manuscript will not be made available to the public during the 12-month embargo following publication in the Archives Journals.
The published article is protected by copyright at the time of publication and thereafter (see http://pubs.ama-assn.org/misc/conditions.dtl). This research access policy does not include permission to use the Archives Journal logo and trademarks. The Archives Journal article of record is the final published version; the Archives Journals assume no responsibility for earlier versions because substantive changes and corrections may occur during the post acceptance editing process. Authors may contact the Archives Journals with any questions at jama-comments{at}jama-archives.org.
