IEEE has provided definitions for each stage of your conference paper life cycle. Also outlined are the IEEE paper sharing and posting policies for each stage.
Authors may post their preprints in the following locations:
This does not count as a prior publication. If copyright to the paper was transferred to IEEE through the completion of an IEEE Copyright Form before the preprint is posted, IEEE must be credited as the copyright holder with the following statement included 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.”
Upon acceptance of the paper by IEEE, the author must replace the posted preprint with either (1) the full citation to the IEEE work with the DOI, or (2) the accepted version of the paper with the DOI and an appropriate copyright notice (as described in the “Accepted Paper” section below). No other changes may be made to the accepted paper.
Authors may share or post their author-submitted paper in the following ways:
Unless the work is published with a U.S. Government, EU, or Crown copyright, IEEE authors must follow the copyright holder’s requirements.
Upon acceptance of the paper by IEEE, the author must replace the posted author-submitted paper with either: (1) the full citation to the IEEE work with the DOI, or (2) the accepted version of the paper with the DOI and an appropriate copyright notice, as described in the “Accepted Paper” section below. No other changes may be made to the accepted paper.
Authors may share or post their accepted paper in the following locations:
Once accepted by IEEE, the posted paper must be removed from any other third-party servers.
Unless the work is submitted as a U.S. Government, EU, or Crown copyright, IEEE must be credited as the copyright holder with the following statement included 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.”
For papers under U.S. Government, EU, or Crown copyright protection, authors must follow the copyright holder’s requirements.
*IEEE policy provides that authors are free to follow funder public access mandates to post accepted papers in repositories. When posting in a repository, the IEEE embargo period is 24 months. However, IEEE recognizes that posting requirements and embargo periods vary by funder. IEEE authors may comply with requirements to deposit their accepted manuscripts in a repository per funder requirements where the embargo is less than 24 months. Information on specific funder requirements can be found here.
The author may not post the final published paper online, but may:
Unless the work is published with a U.S. Government, EU, or Crown copyright, IEEE must be credited as the copyright holder with the following statement included 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.”
Any third-party reuse requires permission from IEEE.
