Elsevier is pleased to announce our partnership with Copyright Clearance Center to meet your licensing needs.

With Copyright Clearance Center’s Rightslink® service it’s faster and easier than ever before to secure permission from Elsevier titles to be used in a book/textbook, journal/magazine, newspaper/newsletter, coursepack/classroom materials, TV programme/documentary, presentation/slide kit, thesis/dissertation, CD-ROM/DVD, promotional materials/pamphlet, conference proceedings, CME material, training materials, in a poster, use a journal cover image, or photocopy.

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1. Locate your desired content on   ScienceDirect (guest users can view abstracts for free)
2. Click on the “Request Permissions” link to the right of the abstract
3. The following page will then be launched (turn off your pop-up blocker):

Select the way you would like to reuse the content

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Accept the terms and conditions and you’re done

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