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SciPost Journals: Terms and Conditions

These complement the SciPost Terms and Conditions.

General

SciPost expects the following from submitters:

Open Access policy

All SciPost Journals are Open Access which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of Open Access.


The following license and copyright agreement is valid for any article published in any SciPost journal and web portal.

Author's certification

By submitting their manuscript, the authors certify the following:

Copyright

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

You are free to

for any purpose, even commercially. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

Under the following terms:

No additional restrictions - You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Notices:

You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation.

No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material.

View the full legal code of the license.

Copyright transfers

Many authors have strict regulations in their employment contract regarding their publications. A transfer of copyright to the institution or company is common as well as the reservation of specific usage rights. In open-access publications in combination with the Creative Commons License, a transfer of the copyright to the institution is possible as it belongs to the author anyway.

Any usage rights are regulated through the Creative Commons License. As SciPost uses the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License, anyone (the author, his/her institution/company, the publisher, as well as the public) is free to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work as long as the original author is given credit (see above). Therefore, specific usage rights cannot be reserved by the author or his/her institution/company, and the publisher cannot include the statement "all rights reserved" in any published paper.

A copyright transfer from the author to his/her institution/company can be expressed in a special "copyright statement" at the end of the publication. Authors are asked to include the following sentence: "The author's copyright for this publication has been transferred to [institution/company]".

Reproduction requests

All articles published by SciPost are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (see details above) together with an author copyright. Therefore, there is no need from the publisher's side to give permission for the reproduction of articles. We suggest contacting the author to inform him/her about the further usage of the material. However, as the author decided to publish the scientific results under the CC-BY licence, he/she consented to share the work under the condition that the original authors be given credit.


Author obligations

  1. The primary obligation of the author(s) is to present a scientifically accurate account of the research performed, as concisely and objectively as possible, and with a discussion on its significance.
  2. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to original sources of information to permit peers to reproduce the work.
  3. Conciseness should not come at the expense of scientific accuracy and completeness.
  4. The abstract should be comprehensive and in faithful correspondence to the contents of the paper.
  5. Papers must be written in English, and authors should pay attention to correct spelling and grammar. Insufficient quality of spelling and grammar constitutes a sufficient reason for rejection.
  6. Authors should cite all publications which have been influential in performing the reported work, and which can orient the reader to the earlier work necessary to understand the reported investigation. Privately obtained information (conversation, correspondence or discussion) should not be used or reported in the work without explicit permission from the originator. Information obtained while performing confidential services such as reporting on manuscripts or grant applications should be treated similarly.
  7. Fragmentation of research papers is to be avoided. Scientists should organize publications such that each paper gives a complete account of a particular project.
  8. Authors should not submit manuscripts describing essentially the same research to more than one journal.
  9. Criticisms of earlier literature can be justified; personal criticism shall however never be considered appropriate.
  10. Only persons who have significantly contributed to the research and to the redaction of the manuscript should be listed as authors. The submitting author attests to the fact that other named authors have seen the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission. Deceased persons who meet the criteria for co-authorship should be included, with a footnote reporting the date of death. In no case should fictitious names be listed as co-authors. The submitter accepts the responsibility of having included all appropriate persons as co-authors, and none that are inappropriate.

Referee code of conduct


Corrections and retractions

SciPost pursues the following policy for making corrections to its peer-reviewed content:

All corrections and retractions can be traced through our participation in Crossref's Crossmark service, as detailed on our Crossmark Policy Page.

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