A. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF ELECTRONIC INFORMATION DISSEMINATION
1. The requirements in this Section shall apply to all manuscripts submitted to IEEE journals, transactions, letters, magazines, and conference publications.
2. The terminology used this Section is defined as follows:

a. An author-submitted manuscript is the version originally submitted by the author to an IEEE publication. An author includes a completed IEEE Copyright Form during submission of the manuscript to an IEEE publication and thereby transfers the copyright of the manuscript to IEEE.
b. An accepted manuscript is a version which has been revised by the author to incorporate review suggestions, and which has been accepted by IEEE for publication.
c. The final, published version is the reviewed and accepted article, with copy-editing, proofreading and formatting added by IEEE.
e. Electronic preprint refers to an author’s posting of a draft manuscript on the author’s web site, his/her employer’s site, or another site that invites comment for the purpose of developing the work. For purposes of this definition, a preprint is assumed to be the manuscript in the form prior to submission to the IEEE, at which point copyright is transferred to IEEE.

3. IEEE seeks to maximize the rights of its authors and their employers to post the accepted version of an article on the author’s personal web site or on a server operated by the author’s employer.
4. IEEE allows its authors to follow mandates of agencies that fund the author’s research by posting accepted versions of their articles in the agencies’ publicly accessible repositories.
5. IEEE does not restrict the rights of authors to use their IEEE-copyrighted articles in their own teaching, training, or work responsibilities, or those of their institutions or employers.
In any version archived by the author after submission, IEEE requires that IEEE will be credited as copyright holder. Upon publication of the work, authors are asked to include either a link to the abstract of the published article in IEEE Xplore, or the article’s Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
6. With the exception of Section 8.1.9.A.3 (above) which is only applicable to agency-funded research, IEEE’S policy for permitting posting of IEEE-copyrighted articles, as set forth in Sections 8.1.9.C through G below, extends only to authors and their employers and IEEE organizational units. IEEE policy does not permit third parties to post IEEE-copyrighted material without obtaining a license or permission from the IEEE.

B. COPYRIGHT NOTICE
In any electronic posting permitted by this Section 8.1.9, the following copyright notice must be displayed on the initial screen displaying IEEE-copyrighted material:
“© 20xx IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.”

C. PERSONAL SERVERS
Authors and/or their employers shall have the right to post the accepted version of IEEE-copyrighted articles on their own personal servers or the servers of their institutions or employers without permission from IEEE, provided that the posted version includes a prominently displayed IEEE copyright notice (as shown in 8.1.9.B, above) and, when published, a full citation to the original IEEE publication, including a link to the article abstract in IEEE Xplore. Authors shall not post the final, published versions of their papers.

D. ELECTRONIC PREPRINTS
Before submitting an article to an IEEE publication, authors frequently post their manuscripts to their own web site, their employer’s site, or to another server that invites constructive comment from colleagues. Upon submission of an article to IEEE, an author is required to transfer copyright in the article to IEEE, and the author must update any previously posted version of the article with a prominently displayed IEEE copyright notice (as shown in 8.1.9.B). Upon publication of an article by the IEEE, the author must replace any previously posted electronic versions of the article with either (1) the full citation to the IEEE work with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) or link to the article abstract in IEEE Xplore, or (2) the accepted version only (not the IEEE-published version), including the IEEE copyright notice and full citation, with a link to the final, published article in IEEE Xplore.

E. CLASSROOM OR INTERNAL TRAINING USE
An author is expressly permitted to post any portion of the accepted version of his/her own IEEE-copyrighted articles on the author’s personal web site or the servers of the author’s institution or company in connection with the author’s teaching, training, or work responsibilities, provided that the appropriate copyright, credit, and reuse notice from 8.1.9.B (above) appears prominently with the posted material. Examples of permitted uses are lecture materials, course packs, e-reserves, conference presentations, or in-house training courses.

F. COLLECTED WORKS
IEEE organizational units wishing to place previously published collected works, such as Transactions, Journals, Magazines, conference proceedings/digests or collections of published papers on their web sites for limited-time promotional purposes must request permission from the IEEE Intellectual Property Rights Office. Such permission will be contingent upon the placement of prominently displayed copyright and reuse notices. Another condition in granting permission will be that the posted collected work includes a monitoring mechanism (e.g., simple password protection) for authorizing access to the material.

G. THIRD-PARTY RIGHTS TO REUSE IEEE-COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL
With the exception of Section 8.1.9.A.3 above which is only applicable to agency-funded research, no third party other than authors and employers acting in accordance with this Section 8.1.9 may post IEEE-copyrighted material without obtaining the necessary licenses or permissions from the IEEE Intellectual Property Rights Office or other authorized representatives of the IEEE, and only under terms approved by PSPB.

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