Any public health or health professions educator may submit materials for publication on PERC. Authors are encouraged to read the instructions below prior to completing the online submission form.

To submit materials to PERC you must first register with PERC. Then click on the “Submit” tab at the top of the page. Proceed to the online Submission Form. Once you complete the form, you will be asked to accept the terms of a Submission Agreement.

All materials will be screened to ensure that the correct file or link was provided, that copyright issues have been addressed, and that content seems generally appropriate for health professions and/or public health education. In addition, the submission form will be reviewed to ensure proper categorizing and keyword selections, and a sufficient description. The PERC Director and/or Editor will determine whether a submission is accepted or rejected. Some submissions may be accepted pending modification.

Types of materials accepted by PERC

PERC accepts a wide variety of materials, including:

These materials may be submitted in virtually any technical format, although the following common document types are preferred:

• PowerPoint slides and presentations
• Word, RTF, XML, and Text documents
• Excel workbooks and data files
• Access Databases
• Video and audio files
• PDF files
• Web pages (htm/html) or links
• Jpg/gif/tif image files

Size limitations:
The system will not upload a file greater than 8 MB in size. If you have a larger file you wish to upload, please email your request to help@teachprevention.org

Instructions for uploading materials

PERC allows authors to upload files to be housed on our servers. If you have a material that is housed on an existing Web site, we encourage you to submit the Web site address instead of the file itself. You will complete the same submission form, but users will be directed to your link when they are prepared to view or download the material.

While completing the submission form, you will be asked to browse for your file on your computer or network OR provide the URL for a web-based material. When you submit the form, the system will automatically upload your submission.

The Submission Form

The information you provide about each material you submit includes details like authors(s), media type, usage rights, applicable Framework component, discipline, keywords, and a brief description of the material. To help faculty implement or use your resource, we urge you to provide the potential user with information such as the purpose/goal of the resource, and practical implementation advice (materials needed, length of session, faculty/facilitator needs, etc.).

The information you provide via the submission form is used first by reviewers as they evaluate whether or not to accept the submission, and then by users as they search for and assess materials. You can read the content of the submission form (pdf) prior to starting the online submission.

The Review Process

Each submission will be screened by APTR/PERC staff to ensure that it meets minimum inclusion criteria. If a submission successfully passes screening, it will be published on PERC, but may be reviewed at a later date by discipline-specific, unbiased peers using a standardized review instrument. The material may undergo additional periodic reviews to ensure that certain content does not become obsolete.

Once a submission is published, it will be subject to publicly viewed ratings and comments submitted by registered PERC users. If you have a concern about a posted comment, please contact us. Inappropriate comments can be deleted.

Dealing with copyrights

You do not have to have a written copyright for your material, but you should only claim authorship of materials that you are certain you created. If you collaborated with others on the development of a teaching material, seek their permission to post the material, and be sure to include them as additional authors on the Submission Form.

The symbol located at the bottom of each resource listed in PERC identifies the copyright license associated with each resource.  Explanations of the licenses are available on the Creative Commons website.   

For general information about copyrights in the United States, please read "Copyright Basics" from the United States Copyright Office at
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#wwp 
 
If you are interested in a web-based system for registering a copyright for your work and/or obtaining permissions to use copyrighted work in your materials, please visit the non-profit Copyright Clearance Center at www.Copyright.com.

Requiring permission from other co-authors

PERC submissions must be free of any copyright infringement. Specifically, we require that prospective authors obtain permission to use any third-party materials. This permission should acknowledge that it is intended to be placed in a Web-based teaching repository and may be distributed then under the Creative Commons License. Alternatively, if there are items where the author(s) are not known, or it will be difficult to receive the necessary permission, then those items should be removed from your submission.

Authors are welcome to submit resources that have already been published.

Authored materials that include illustrations, photos or other content from other, possibly unknown, sources

You may be the author of a material that contains embedded images or content from other sources. You must ensure that permission is granted and you attribute the embedded content to the original source. If you are unsure of the source of images, you may wish to replace them with similar, unrestricted clip-art, or delete the image from your submission. If images are crucial to your resource, consider purchasing low-cost, royalty-free images from stock image companies such as Dreamstime.com ($1 each), Gettyimages.com and Corbis.com (there are hundreds of options on the Web). Free-use images are also available from CDC’s Public Health Image Library: http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp, but remember, even free images require attribution.

Controlling how your materials are used by others

PERC respects the original ownership of all submissions and does not pursue ownership in any materials it receives or publishes. To protect the rights of authors, PERC requires that the corresponding author answer three simple questions to create a Creative Commons copyright usage license which legally governs how their material may be used by others. If the submission is accepted, the PERC system will associate this Creative Commons License with the resource and request that all users maintain an association between this License and the resource they download. Users do not need to request permission to use the resource in the licensed manner. To request additional uses for any resource, outside the bounds of the Creative Commons license, users are expected to contact the copyright holder(s) of the resource directly.

The symbol located at the bottom of each resource listed in PERC identifies the copyright license associated with each resource.  Explanations of the licenses are available on the Creative Commons website.   

Revisions of posted materials

You can upload revisions to your material at any time. In fact, we encourage you to keep time-sensitive materials up-to-date. Please note that if you cancel your membership in PERC, any materials you posted will automatically be deleted.