diff --git a/scipost/templates/scipost/register.html b/scipost/templates/scipost/register.html
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--- a/scipost/templates/scipost/register.html
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@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
<p>Required fields are marked with a *.</p>
<p>An ORCID id is not formally required but helps preventing identification ambiguities.
You can easily get one at <a href="http://orcid.org">orcid.org</a>.</p>
+ <p>Registration and use of the portal means that you agree with our <a href="{% url 'scipost:terms_and_conditions' %}">Terms and Conditions</a> and with our <a href="{% url 'scipost:privacy_policy' %}">Privacy Policy</a>.</p>
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diff --git a/scipost/templates/scipost/terms_and_conditions.html b/scipost/templates/scipost/terms_and_conditions.html
index b0ca13320e93fe3a24e825bd0520668e9441e9df..12368853a35d53e247d57c63fdc3589631559f68 100644
--- a/scipost/templates/scipost/terms_and_conditions.html
+++ b/scipost/templates/scipost/terms_and_conditions.html
@@ -25,8 +25,11 @@
<p>The scipost.org portal, the underlying software, content and trademarks used on or in connection with the scipost.org portal are owned by Stichting SciPost or its licensors, and are subject to international intellectual property rights and laws. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as conferring by implication, or otherwise any license or right under any trademark, copyright or patent of SciPost or any other third party and all rights are reserved, except as explicitly stated in these Terms and Conditions.</p>
<h2>License to use Journal Articles, Submissions, Commentaries, Thesis Links and Related Content</h2>
- <p>Unless otherwise indicated, the journal articles and all other online content published by SciPost on the scipost.org portal are licensed under the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License</a>. This means that you are free to use, reproduce and distribute the articles and related content (unless otherwise noted), for commercial and noncommercial purposes, subject to the citation of the original source in accordance with the CC-BY license.</p>
-
+ <p>Unless otherwise indicated, the journal articles and all other online content published by SciPost on the scipost.org portal are licensed under the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License</a>. This means that you are free to use, reproduce and distribute the articles and related content (unless otherwise noted), for commercial and noncommercial purposes, subject to the citation of the original source in accordance with the CC-BY license, section 3a.</p>
+
+ <h2>Contributions</h2>
+ <p>All contributions to SciPost will be scanned for plagiarism. In their own interests, contributors should avoid any dubious cases. All forms of contributions (submissions, reports, comments, etc) must give proper citations to any works referred to. It is the responsibility of the Contributor to ensure compliance with any relevant licenses applicable to the cited works.</p>
+
<h2>Impermissible Uses</h2>
<p>You agree to use the scipost.org portal only for lawful purposes, and in a manner that does not infringe the rights of, or restrict or inhibit the use of the scipost.org portal by any third party. Such restriction or inhibition includes, without limitation, conduct which is unlawful, or which may harass or cause distress or inconvenience to any person and the transmission of obscene or offensive content or disruption of normal flow of dialogue within the portal. As a condition to your use of the scipost.org portal, you agree not to:</p>
<ul>
@@ -34,7 +37,8 @@
<li>impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; or obtain, collect, store, or modify personal information about other users;</li>
<li>upload, post, email, transmit, or otherwise make available to any user on the scipost.org portal any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, 'junk mail', 'spam', 'chain letters', 'pyramid schemes', or any other form of solicitation;</li>
<li>modify, adapt, or hack the scipost.org portal or falsely imply that some other site is associated with SciPost; or</li>
- <li>use the scipost.org portal for any illegal or unauthorized purpose. You must not, in the use of the scipost.org portal, violate any Dutch laws or laws in your jurisdicition (including but not limited to copyright laws).</li>
+ <li>use the scipost.org portal for any illegal or unauthorized purpose. You must not, in the use of the scipost.org portal, violate any Dutch laws or laws in your jurisdicition (including but not limited to copyright laws);</li>
+ <li>use the scipost.org portal in violation with the nationally and internationally accepted standards for scientific conduct as stated in the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Scientific Practice (Association of Universities in the Netherlands).</li>
</ul>
<h2>Suspension of Use/Violation of these Terms and Conditions</h2>
@@ -73,7 +77,7 @@
<p>Certain parts of the scipost.org portal are subject to registration and additional conditions which will be made available to you to read at the time of registration. Those terms and conditions are incorporated herein. If there is any conflict between these Terms and Conditions and/or specific terms and conditions appearing elsewhere on the scipost.org portal relating to specific material then the latter shall prevail. When registering, you are required to select a password. You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password, and any activity taken under your password. You are required to notify SciPost immediately of any known or suspected unauthorized use of your account or password and take reasonable steps to stop such use.</p>
<h2>General</h2>
- <p>Any forbearance or indulgence by SciPost in enforcing any provision in these Terms and Conditions shall not affect SciPost's right of enforcement and any waiver of any breach shall not operate as a waiver of any subsequent or continuing breach. If any of these Terms and Conditions should be determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these Terms and Conditions are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction which that Term and Condition is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from the clause and the remaining terms and conditions shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding an enforceable. These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of New York, without regard to its conflict of law principles. Disputes arising here from shall be exclusively subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of new York. If there is any conflict between these Terms and Conditions and/or specific terms appearing elsewhere on the scipost.org portal relating to specific material then the latter shall prevail.</p>
+ <p>Any forbearance or indulgence by SciPost in enforcing any provision in these Terms and Conditions shall not affect SciPost's right of enforcement and any waiver of any breach shall not operate as a waiver of any subsequent or continuing breach. If any of these Terms and Conditions should be determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these Terms and Conditions are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction which that Term and Condition is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from the clause and the remaining terms and conditions shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding an enforceable. These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with laws of the Netherlands, without regard to its conflict of law principles. Disputes arising here from shall be exclusively subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of the Netherlands. If there is any conflict between these Terms and Conditions and/or specific terms appearing elsewhere on the scipost.org portal relating to specific material then the latter shall prevail.</p>
<h2>Questions and Comments</h2>
<p>If you have any questions or comments about these Terms and Conditions, please contact <a href="mailto:admin@scipost.org">admin@scipost.org</a>.</p>
diff --git a/submissions/templates/submissions/sub_and_ref_procedure.html b/submissions/templates/submissions/sub_and_ref_procedure.html
index 09ed991408a923eadc4a4e5cf352e65fff8a0a9e..4cffe572b5860bd2c649bd6d017b35657ba54bb1 100644
--- a/submissions/templates/submissions/sub_and_ref_procedure.html
+++ b/submissions/templates/submissions/sub_and_ref_procedure.html
@@ -28,15 +28,12 @@
<h3 id="pwr">Refereeing procedure</h3>
<p>All incoming Submissions to SciPost Journals are peer-reviewed using SciPost's <a href="/FAQ#pwr">peer-witnessed refereeing</a> process, implementing the highest standard of refereeing available. The precise procedure follows this pattern:</p>
<ol>
- <li>A member of the Editorial College is internally selected and becomes Editor-in-charge of the manuscript.</li>
- <li>A Submission Page is activated (this is similar to a Commentary Page, but with Reports also enabled).</li>
- <li>The Submission is immediately opened to Contributor Comments and Author Replies, all of which are vetted by an Editorial Fellow before eventually appearing online.</li>
- <li>The Editor-in-charge starts a refereeing round (whose duration depends on the Journal, see below), inviting specific Contributors to provide an Invited Report.</li>
- <li>During a refereeing round, registered Contributors to SciPost can volunteer a Contributed Report.</li>
- <li>During the refereeing round, authors can continuously provide Replies to Reports and Comments.</li>
+ <li>Pre-screening: the Submission is internally forwarded to Fellows of the Editorial College, for them to consider becoming Editor-in-charge. If a Fellow expresses interest in the submission, he/she becomes Editor-in-charge and the process can move forward, otherwise the authors are informed that the paper shall not be considered further. This pre-screening process is rapid and occurs within at most 5 working days.</li>
+ <li>Following successful pre-screening, a Submission Page is activated (this is similar to a Commentary Page, but with Reports also enabled). The Submission is immediately opened to Contributor Comments and Author Replies, all of which are vetted by an Editorial Fellow before eventually appearing online.</li>
+ <li>The Editor-in-charge starts a refereeing round (whose duration depends on the Journal, see below), inviting specific Contributors to provide an Invited Report. During a refereeing round, registered Contributors to SciPost can volunteer a Contributed Report, and authors can continuously provide Replies to Reports and Comments.</li>
<li>At the end of the refereeing round, Reports, Replies and Comments are assessed by the Editor-in-charge, who formulates an editorial recommendation.
<ol>
- <li>If the editorial recommendation is for publication or rejection, it is forwarded to the Editorial College, which takes the binding editorial decision by consultation of the relevant specialty's Editorial Fellows.</li>
+ <li>If the editorial recommendation is for publication or rejection, it is forwarded to the Editorial College, which takes the binding editorial decision by consultation of the relevant specialty's Editorial Fellows. If the recommendation is to publish the paper as Select (targeting approximately the top 10% of articles considered), Editorial Fellows of all specialties get the chance to support or object to this promotion.</li>
<li>If the Editorial Recommendation is for a minor or major revision, it is communicated directly to the authors, who must then resubmit. Upon resubmission, the Editor-in-charge can either start a new refereeing round or directly formulate a new editorial recommendation.</li>
</ol></li>
<li>After being taken by the Editorial College, the editorial decision (consisting in either a publication offer, or rejection) is communicated to the Authors.</li>