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It is absolutely essential that you obtain permission for material for which you do not hold the copyright.
Materials requiring permission
YOUR OWN WORK
If your own work is published by another publisher, you must obtain permission to borrow material from that publisher if you do not hold the copyright.
EXTRACTS
The ‘fair dealing' provision of the Copyright Act allows, generally, for the use of one extract of not more than 400 words from any one work, or a series of extracts not exceeding 800 words in total from any one work without the need for written permission. The use of Crown/Parliamentary copyright material must always be cleared.
TABLES, GRAPHS AND CHARTS
Permission is required for the use of tables, graphs and charts if they are unchanged or only slightly modified. However, you may take data from a table and construct your own table, or change vertical columns into horizontal rows, without securing permission. In these cases, you must cite the source of the information, in the form of either ‘Data from...' or ‘Modified from...'.
LINE ARTWORK
You need permission to use unaltered or slightly modified copyrighted artwork. However, if the original artwork is altered significantly beyond recognition, permission is not required.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Permission is needed for photographs for which you do not hold copyright. This is likely to include photographs from your own institution, including those you have taken yourself. Check whether the copyright is yours or whether you need the institute's permission.
Obtaining permission
You should start obtaining permissions as early as possible. A Permission Request Form is available to download,  of which you may make copies. This form is also available from Pharmaceutical Press as a hard copy. You should send the form to the copyright holder, who is usually the publisher. Ask our advice if they seek to charge. Copies of all permission forms, both signed and sent but not returned, should be submitted as part of your complete manuscript.
If in any doubt, apply for permission. We cannot publish material from other publications without permission
The copyright holder may give you instructions on the form of acknowledgement to be followed; otherwise follow the style: ‘Reproduced with permission from [author], [book title]; published by [publisher], [year].' at the end of the caption.
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