Electronic Reprints

Electronic "Reprints" are available for two groups :

• For Subscribers
• For Reprint Requestors

For Subscribers: The PDF File

Subscribers to an Annual Reviews series have access to the reviews in that series in PDF (Portable Document Format)—sometimes called an "electronic reprint." PDF files (which represent the article in its typeset form, just the way a printed reprint does) can be read online or downloaded for local reading and printing. Like photocopies of printed articles, PDFs involve copyright-holder permissions (see below).

Annual Reviews authors receive complimentary subscriptions to the volumes for which they've written. Like all subscribers, authors must activate (see below) their subscriptions before accessing Annual Reviews online. With an activated subscription, authors and others can obtain chapter PDF files.

To obtain the PDF ("reprint") file,

• Navigate to the specific Annual Reviews series site (e.g. proceed from here to: http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/action/showJournals)
• Once at the series site, click Current Volume.
• Find the target review and click Full Text. If you're directed to a sign-in page, you may not have an activated (see below) subscription.
• Click "View/Print PDF "
• Use Acrobat Reader to download the PDF.

For Reprint Requestors: The Article's Author ePrint

• Annual Review authors can provide "Author ePrints" to colleagues who request them. An author ePrint is a "keyed URL" (a unique Web address) that grants free online access to the author's review—in both Web-browsable form (as HTML pages, with links to other online resources) and "reprint" form (a locally printable PDF file).

To Provide Requestors with Author ePrints

• As an Annual Reviews author, you can obtain your article's "keyed URL" from your series Production Editor. [These URLs, together with permissions (see below) and line break information (see below) are generally provided by email near the end of the volume's production period.]
• Copy the ePrint URL into your message to the person who requested the ePrint.
• Please include in that message the permissions information provided by Annual Reviews
• Likewise include the note on email line breaks.

PDFs and Pemissions

Please honor copyright protections. Copyright considerations (and fair-use allowances) apply to the distribution and use of PDFs exactly as they do to photocopies of these reviews. Subscribers may not freely distribute the article PDF files to which their subscriptions provide access.

We request that authors accompany each author ePrint distribution with a note to this effect: 'I am pleased to provide you complimentary access to my Annual Reviews article as a PDF file ([Author: place Author ePrint keyed URL here]), for your own personal use. Any further/multiple distribution, publication, or commercial usage of this copyrighted material would require a permission request addressed to the Annual Reviews Permissions Department, email permissions@annualreviews.org'.

Emailing ePrint URLs: Line Break Information

An author ePrint is actually a special keyed URL to an author's review. The author ePrint (a long string of numbers and characters) gives reprint requestors access to an author's review without the need of a subscription.

Author ePrint URLs may be sent to reprint requestors via email, but please note: a Web URL can contain no blank spaces or line breaks (carriage returns). If the author ePrint URL you receive in email appears to be broken across two or more lines (as in the example below), the email programs involved have introduced a line break. Please "reconstruct" the URL by re-joining the two lines and removing any spaces. Then paste the resulting single line into your browser's "Location:" blank.

EXAMPLE (here a line break has been introduced into the Author ePrint URL):

http://arseries.annualreviews.org:/cgi/content/full/99/1/000?ijkey
=NDCL6U45HtBY.&keytype=ref&siteid=arjournals

This ePrint URL won't work until the two halves are rejoined.

Online Activation Instructions for Individuals

If you have already activated online access to your most recent print subscription of an Annual Review, you need not re-activate. If you have not already activated, please follow the instructions below to do so. Online Access is included with your individual print subscription. Upon shipment of each volume to which you subscribe, your online expiration date will be updated automatically and you will not need to activate in the future.

To activate:

1. Click the ACTIVATE ONLINE ACCESS button at the top left of your browser window.
2. Follow the link under, "To activate an individual subscription."
3. Enter your activation number. This is the SHIP-TO Number listed in the upper left corner of your invoice.
4. You will then be prompted to complete an Online Form confirming the titles to which you will have access. Upon completion, you will create your own user name and password.