Licensing
Helping you reach new audiences and wider readership
BMJ Group’s reputation is built on over 180 years of commitment to the highest standards in health care. Everything we do is focused on moving medical knowledge forward.
We are constantly looking for new and better ways to make our information more useful and effective for medical professionals worldwide.
That is why licensing agreements are important to our success.
What do you get when you licence journals content?
The Rights & Licensing team has a broad remit. We are always interested in new ways to present our products and content in different markets and territories and to new audiences.
BMJ Group’s licensing offering includes:
- Syndication
- Document delivery
- Content licensing
- Local editions
We licence everything from individual figures and tables to large selections of articles from journals.
We currently licence the following content:
- Figures, tables, extracts
- Journal articles
- Learning modules
- Patient leaflets
- Infographics
- Videos
- Blogs
- Podcasts
- Guidelines
We are happy to consider personalised agreements for your projects
We have 25 years’ experience licensing custom editions. These BMJ Group-branded editions of journals may include:
- Specially selected articles
- Translated articles
- Commentaries by key opinion leaders
- Learning modules
- CME questions
Permissions
The BMJ and BMJ journals Collection
RightsLink
We offer the Copyright Clearance Centre’s Rightslink licensing solution for all BMJ Group permissions. The service is quick and easy to use. You can get a quick price and instant permission to reuse BMJ Group content in many different ways.
Here are the instructions:
- Go to our Journals collection or The BMJ Group site and locate the content you wish to reuse
- Click on ‘Request Permissions’ on the article webpage to get to the Rightslink Permission webpage
- Follow the instructions in the pop-up window
For additional information see our Frequently Asked Questions page or contact customer care:
- Tel: (+1) 877 622 5543 (toll free) or (+1) 978 777 9929
- Email: customercare@copyright.com
- Live chat
The Copyright Clearance Center’s MarketPlace
If you require broader rights than those available on RightsLink please use CCC’s Marketplace service. You can access the platform here and search for the article’s title or DOI.
For more information about Marketplace, please follow this link or contact the customer care team at support@copyright.com or call them on (+1) 978 646 2600.
STM permissions guidelines
As a signatory of the STM permissions guidelines, BMJ Group is keen to reduce barriers to researchers and facilitate the process of scientific publishing in journals.
Please note that BMJ Group’s participation in the Guidelines only extends to Journals, in order to ensure a reciprocal arrangement. Signatories reusing BMJ Group content in books and other products will be charged a permission fee. Conversely, BMJ Group will pay permission fees for the reuse of any signatories’ book content in our products. Our RightsLink implementation reflects this.
We must emphasise that these are just guidelines. Any requests should still go through RightsLink or be emailed to the BMJ Group Permissions department.
You can read more about it here
Permission requests
For any reuse rights not available on RightsLink or www.copyright.com (including multiple rights for a campaign) please complete this form and someone from the BMJ Group Permissions Department will be in touch.
Clinical trial requests
If you are seeking permission to use BMJ Group content in a clinical trial please complete this form and someone from the BMJ Group Permissions Department will be in touch.
Author permissions
As the author of a work published by BMJ Group, you retain some rights to reuse the work. Please visit this page to find out more.
Modifications
Please note that our automated permissions do not allow you to alter the material, other than to make stylistic changes. If you wish to adapt material please send a draft of the revised work and a full reference to the original to bmj.permissions@bmj.com.
PLSClear
The Publisher’s Licensing Society portal, PLSClear, offers a UK-based permissions service for BMJ Group content.
Non-journal content
BMJ Learning, BMJ Best Practice and BMJ OnExamination
To reuse content from BMJ Learning or BMJ Best Practice, please use CCC’s MarketPlace.
For OnExam and any other BMJ products please send full details of your request to bmj.permissions@bmj.com.
Multimedia
Permission requests to reuse videos, visual abstracts, and podcasts are not covered by RightsLink or any other automated services. Please send full details of your request to bmj.permissions@bmj.com.
You can now acquire permission to use infographics via RightsLink. Simply, go to the infographic’s webpage, click ‘Request Permissions’ and select Infographic as the portion.
EULAR textbooks
To reuse material from any of the EULAR Textbooks please contact bmj.permissions@bmj.com.
Western Journal of Medicine
If you wish to reuse content from the Western Journal of Medicine, or any other discontinued BMJ Group content, please email bmj.permissions@bmj.com.
Our Permissions team will send a link to a RightsLink window for reuse of the content.
Sharing, photocopying and reusing within your organisation
Photocopying and use under RRO copyright licences
Do you hold a licence from any of the following:
- Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA)
- Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), or
- an equivalent Reproduction Rights Organisation (RRO)?
If so, you may not need to contact us to request permission for a wide range of uses. Depending on the licence you hold, these may
include:
- Copying for internal meetings
- Use in presentations (though not for sales or marketing purposes)
- Emailing to colleagues
- Many educational uses.
Please refer to your licence for detailed terms.
For more information please contact CLA, CCC or your local RRO.
Reprints
Order BMJ and journals article reprints
Reprints of original articles from The BMJ, Journals and evidence-based journals are available for purchase.
They offer a cost-effective and authoritative way of providing information on advances in medicine and new therapeutic areas.
If you wish to purchase multiple stand-alone copies of a BMJ paper, please contact the following:
World and UK: Nadia Gurney-Randall ngurneyrandall@bmj.com
North America and Latin America: Ray Thibodeau ray.thibodeau@contentednet.com