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Cortex new open access policy
cortex 45 (2009) 135–136
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journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/cortex
Editorial
Cortex new open access policy Sergio Della Salaa,* and Jordan Grafmanb a
University of Edinburgh, Human Cognitive Neuroscience, United Kingdom Cognitive Neuroscience Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD, USA
b
Ever since we took over as editors, Cortex has adopted a complete Open Access policy (see Harnad, 2002; Suber, 2002). We stated in one of our early editorials (Grafman and Della Sala, 2002) that ideally the output of scientific research, especially if funded by tax-payers’ money, should not be treated as private property. Hence, we supported the establishment of open archives of scientific literature with unrestricted access. However, since Cortex is published by Elsevier, a company that must make a profit, we will now have to comply with the policies set up by Elsevier. Since 2004, Elsevier has employed the ‘‘Open Access Green Route’’. This implies that as well as traditional print and online publishing of the article, the final, pre-print version of the article is released to the authors for their distribution, usually online, free of charge. Although not entirely Open Access, Elsevier’s policy allows authors to retain a range of rights concerning their own manuscript with regard to distribution, publishing for scientific advancement, teaching and scholarly communication. In particular, Cortex author can, without asking permission, do the following after publication of their article: Make copies (print and electronic) of their article for personal use or the author’s own classroom teaching. Make copies of the article and distribute them (including via e-mail) to known research colleagues for their personal use but not for commercial purposes. Present the article at a meeting or conference and distribute copies of the article to attendees. Allow the author’s employer to use the article in full or in part for other intracompany use (e.g., training).
Retain patent and trademark rights and rights to any process or procedure described in the article. Include the article in full or in part in a printed compilation of the author’s work, such as collected writings and lecture notes. Use the article in full or in part to prepare other derivative works, including expanding the article to book-length form, with each such work to include full acknowledgement of the article’s original publication in the Cortex. Post a pre-print version of the article on Internet websites including electronic pre-print servers, and retain indefinitely this version on such servers or sites. Post a personal manuscript version of the article on the author’s personal or institutional website or server provided each such posting includes a link to the article’s Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and includes a complete citation for the article. This means an author can update a personal manuscript version (e.g., in Word or TeX format) of the article to reflect changes made during the peer-review and editing process. Note that such posting may not be for commercial purposes and may not be to any external, thirdparty website. If an article has multiple authors, each author has the same posting rights. To preserve the integrity of the official record of publication, the final published version of an article as it appears (in PDF or HTML) in Cortex will continue to be available only on an Elsevier site. Authors who publish in Cortex will undergo the agreements and the policies established by Elsevier in order to allow authors who publish in its journals to comply with manuscript archiving requirements of the following funding bodies: Chief Scientist Office (UK), Department of Health (UK), Howard
* Corresponding author. University of Edinburgh, Human Cognitive Neuroscience, 7 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom. E-mail address: [email protected] (S. Della Sala). 0010-9452/$ – see front matter ª 2008 Elsevier Srl. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2008.11.008
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cortex 45 (2009) 135–136
Hughes Medical Institute (US), Medical Research Council (UK), National Institutes of Health (US), Wellcome Trust (UK) (details of these agreements are available in the authors’ homepage hosted on www.elsevier.com). These agreements and policies enable authors to comply with their funding body’s archiving policy without having to violate their publishing agreements with Elsevier. When required by funding bodies, authors publishing in Cortex can comply with their funding body policies by paying a subsidy fee to the journal to help offset the cost of peer review and other publishing costs. The above funding bodies will reimburse authors who have paid the fee. Upon final publication, Elsevier will send to PubMed Central the final document used to generate the definitive published journal article that appears on Science Direct. This document reflects all author-agreed changes that arise from the peer-review, copy-editing and proofing process. Elsevier will authorize its public posting on PMC, and PMC mirror sites, immediately. PMC and PMC mirror sites will also link directly to the final published journal article, which will continue to reside only on Elsevier’s websites and which Elsevier will make freely available to both non-subscribers and subscribers.
Although not to the complete satisfactions of a totally free Open Access policy, we trust that the compromise summarized above should be agreeable to most authors. Further and updated information could be found at the following Elsevier web pages: For copyright and authors’ rights: http://www.elsevier.com/ wps/find/authorsview.authors/copyright#whatrights. For agreements with specific funding bodies: http://www. elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/ fundingbodyagreements.
references
Grafman J and Della Sala S. Cortex on line. Cortex, 38: 1, 2002. Harnad S. Six proposals for freeing online access to the refereed literature and how the cortex initiative can help. Cortex, 38: 93– 99, 2002. Suber P. Where does the free online scholarship movement stand today? Cortex, 38: 261–264, 2002.
available at www.sciencedirect.com
journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/cortex
Editorial
Cortex new open access policy Sergio Della Salaa,* and Jordan Grafmanb a
University of Edinburgh, Human Cognitive Neuroscience, United Kingdom Cognitive Neuroscience Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD, USA
b
Ever since we took over as editors, Cortex has adopted a complete Open Access policy (see Harnad, 2002; Suber, 2002). We stated in one of our early editorials (Grafman and Della Sala, 2002) that ideally the output of scientific research, especially if funded by tax-payers’ money, should not be treated as private property. Hence, we supported the establishment of open archives of scientific literature with unrestricted access. However, since Cortex is published by Elsevier, a company that must make a profit, we will now have to comply with the policies set up by Elsevier. Since 2004, Elsevier has employed the ‘‘Open Access Green Route’’. This implies that as well as traditional print and online publishing of the article, the final, pre-print version of the article is released to the authors for their distribution, usually online, free of charge. Although not entirely Open Access, Elsevier’s policy allows authors to retain a range of rights concerning their own manuscript with regard to distribution, publishing for scientific advancement, teaching and scholarly communication. In particular, Cortex author can, without asking permission, do the following after publication of their article: Make copies (print and electronic) of their article for personal use or the author’s own classroom teaching. Make copies of the article and distribute them (including via e-mail) to known research colleagues for their personal use but not for commercial purposes. Present the article at a meeting or conference and distribute copies of the article to attendees. Allow the author’s employer to use the article in full or in part for other intracompany use (e.g., training).
Retain patent and trademark rights and rights to any process or procedure described in the article. Include the article in full or in part in a printed compilation of the author’s work, such as collected writings and lecture notes. Use the article in full or in part to prepare other derivative works, including expanding the article to book-length form, with each such work to include full acknowledgement of the article’s original publication in the Cortex. Post a pre-print version of the article on Internet websites including electronic pre-print servers, and retain indefinitely this version on such servers or sites. Post a personal manuscript version of the article on the author’s personal or institutional website or server provided each such posting includes a link to the article’s Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and includes a complete citation for the article. This means an author can update a personal manuscript version (e.g., in Word or TeX format) of the article to reflect changes made during the peer-review and editing process. Note that such posting may not be for commercial purposes and may not be to any external, thirdparty website. If an article has multiple authors, each author has the same posting rights. To preserve the integrity of the official record of publication, the final published version of an article as it appears (in PDF or HTML) in Cortex will continue to be available only on an Elsevier site. Authors who publish in Cortex will undergo the agreements and the policies established by Elsevier in order to allow authors who publish in its journals to comply with manuscript archiving requirements of the following funding bodies: Chief Scientist Office (UK), Department of Health (UK), Howard
* Corresponding author. University of Edinburgh, Human Cognitive Neuroscience, 7 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom. E-mail address: [email protected] (S. Della Sala). 0010-9452/$ – see front matter ª 2008 Elsevier Srl. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2008.11.008
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cortex 45 (2009) 135–136
Hughes Medical Institute (US), Medical Research Council (UK), National Institutes of Health (US), Wellcome Trust (UK) (details of these agreements are available in the authors’ homepage hosted on www.elsevier.com). These agreements and policies enable authors to comply with their funding body’s archiving policy without having to violate their publishing agreements with Elsevier. When required by funding bodies, authors publishing in Cortex can comply with their funding body policies by paying a subsidy fee to the journal to help offset the cost of peer review and other publishing costs. The above funding bodies will reimburse authors who have paid the fee. Upon final publication, Elsevier will send to PubMed Central the final document used to generate the definitive published journal article that appears on Science Direct. This document reflects all author-agreed changes that arise from the peer-review, copy-editing and proofing process. Elsevier will authorize its public posting on PMC, and PMC mirror sites, immediately. PMC and PMC mirror sites will also link directly to the final published journal article, which will continue to reside only on Elsevier’s websites and which Elsevier will make freely available to both non-subscribers and subscribers.
Although not to the complete satisfactions of a totally free Open Access policy, we trust that the compromise summarized above should be agreeable to most authors. Further and updated information could be found at the following Elsevier web pages: For copyright and authors’ rights: http://www.elsevier.com/ wps/find/authorsview.authors/copyright#whatrights. For agreements with specific funding bodies: http://www. elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/ fundingbodyagreements.
references
Grafman J and Della Sala S. Cortex on line. Cortex, 38: 1, 2002. Harnad S. Six proposals for freeing online access to the refereed literature and how the cortex initiative can help. Cortex, 38: 93– 99, 2002. Suber P. Where does the free online scholarship movement stand today? Cortex, 38: 261–264, 2002.