Permission Requests

Material from The Journal may not be reproduced or adapted without prior express written permission from The Journal of Rheumatology Publishing Co. Ltd. License agreements will be prepared for all paid permissions.  

All reused content must be properly cited using the following format:  

Reprinted from [first author last name] [first author initials] et al with permission from The Journal of Rheumatology. [Insert title.] J Rheumatol [year of publication];volume(issue):page no.-page no. All rights reserved. 

Requests through Copyright Clearance Center Marketplace

The Journal of Rheumatology partners with Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) Marketplace to give you simple and fast processing of various types of requests for use of our copyrighted content. Please make your request through CCC Marketplace for any of the following: 

  • Full-text articles, abstracts, excerpts, tables, and figures from 2008 onward 

  • Audio and video content (such as podcasts, video abstracts, author interviews) 

  • Content for regulatory purposes 

  • Author use of their own work for non-commercial purposes  

  • Thesis or dissertation inclusion for non-commercial purposes (charges do not apply)  

The following requests can also be made through CCC Marketplace, but they additionally require written consent from the first author (to be uploaded at the time of request): 

  • Full-text articles, abstracts, excerpts, tables, and figures before 2008  

  • Modification of any content (author consent is not required for content transfer to electronic format). 

Direct Requests 

Please contact The Journal directly to request use of questionnaires for clinical trials (eg, SLEDAI-2K): 

  • Complete the Permission Request Form, or  

  • Email the completed PDF Form to permissions@jrheum.com 

  • You may download a SLEDAI-2K Review Copy. The Journal will provide an unmarked copy of the instrument once permission is granted. Note: The review copy may only be used for personal review and may not be distributed in any way.  

  • Translations of the questionnaires must be performed by professional translators accredited for medical-technical translation in the respective source and target language(s). Linguistic validation is required for all translations of clinical outcome assessments (eg, patient-reported outcomes, clinician reports) and questionnaires. The Journal does not offer translation services. 

Self-Archiving in an Online Repository 

Authors of original research articles may deposit the peer-reviewed accepted version of their manuscript to a non-profit institutional and/or non-profit centrally organized repository (including PubMed Central). For more information, please review our Self-Archiving Policy. 

For more information contact: 
The Journal of Rheumatology 
permissions@jrheum.com 
Tel.: 416-967-9599, ext. 225 

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