Copyright Policy

State Defense Force Publication Center

COPYRIGHT POLICY
© 2011 State Defense Forces Publications Center. Creative Commons Attribution License. Exclusive

of U. S. government works.

FOR USERS
The State Defense Force Publication Center (SDF PubCntr) is an electronic online-only open access
publisher. The SDF PubCntr permits any user to download, print out, extract, archive and distribute
information from this website, including all publications, as long as credit is given to the SDF PubCntr
and its authors. All site content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

FOR AUTHORS

State Government Employees and All Others

As a condition of publication, contributors to the SDF PubCntr's SDF Journal or SDF Monograph Series
and authors of articles selected for publication grant the SDF PubCntr a non-exclusive world-wide license
to use, modify, publish and distribute their work. Authors retain copyright, but must agree to apply an
open-access license which permits any user to download, print out, extract, archive and distribute their
article with appropriate credits given to the author and the SDF PubCntr. This license ensures that articles
will be made as widely available as possible. Please read about Creative Commons Attribution License
the before submitting your paper.

The suggested citation format for articles is

Article Author(s). Article Title, State Defense Force Journal or State Defense Force Monograph Series,
Vol.#, Issue#, Date, URL or DTIC Handle. Creative Commons Attribution License.

Federal Government Employees

Any work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's
official duties is not eligible for copyright protection. However, these works are subject to agency public
release review; authors are responsible for securing agency approval for "open publication." Articles will
note: "Approved for Public Release. U.S.Government Work (17 USC §105) Not copyrighted in the
U.S."

The Citation Format for these Articles is:

Article Author(s). "Article Title", State Defense Force Journal or State Defense Force Monograph
Series, Vol. #, Issue #, Date, URL or DTIC Handle. U.S.Government Work (17 USC §105); Not
copyrighted in the U.S.

DISTRIBUTION, INDEXING AND PRESERVATION

SDF PubCntr articles are indexed in the Defense Technical Information Center (www.dtic.mil) Technical

Reports Collection. DTIC announces and disseminates to other public collections and outlets, including:

National Technical Information Service (NTIS) www.ntis.gov licenses its citations for indexing in:

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Dialog
Ovid Silver Platter
DataStar Engineering Information
Ebsco STN International/Chemical Abstracts

Open Archives Initiative (OAI) http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/prodsrvc/oai.html

DTIC content is provided in a format that allows third party harvesting by search engines (Google,
Yahoo, etc) and others. For ease of access and reference, DTIC assigns handles (persistent unique
identifiers/links) to digital documents added to their Collection
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/handles/index.html.