Author Self-Archiving Policy
All journals follow JISC(Sherpa/Romeo's) policy. The pre-print, post-print, and publisher's version/PDF can be archived under the following conditions.
The author (s) may deposit and use the document as follows:
- Author's Homepage
- Non-Commercial Institutional Repository
- Non-Commercial Repository
- Non-Commercial Social Network
- Non-Commercial Subject Repository
- Journal Repository Website
Author(s) may share or post the version of the article that was submitted to the journal (pre-print) to the above resources at any time by adding the caption "This manuscript will be published in the journal .. (Journal Title). This does not count as a prior publication.
Final published article
When the article is published, the pre-print and post-print versions should be updated with a full citation to the original journal, including DOI, and can be used for a variety of non-commercial scholarly purposes, subject to full attribution under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Exceptions to this policy include:
- the systematic upload or collation of articles across repositories,
- copying or downloading documents for further distribution for a fee,
- any use of the documents in conjunction with advertising,
- any use of the documents for promotional purposes by for-profit organizations,
- any use that would confer monetary reward, commercial gain, or commercial exploitation.
Please read carefully about Copyright and Licensing, as well as the Archiving notice in each journal.
