All articles published on the World Scientific website are protected by copyright held by World Scientific Publishing Company (or its subsidiaries).As author of a journal article, you retain the rights detailed in the following:
1. The publisher-created version can only be posted where a gold access fee has been paid and the article contains an OpenAccess logo.
3. After an embargo of 12-24 months, you may post the accepted author manuscript on your personal website, your institutional or subject repositories of your own choice or as stipulated by the Funding Agency. The embargo period can vary between sciences and Funding Agency Requirement. Please provide the following acknowledgement:
* Electronic version of an article published as [Journal, Volume, Issue, Year, Pages] [Article DOI] @ [copyright World Scientific Publishing Company] [Journal URL]
Definitions:
* “accepted author manuscript” – an author-created version of the final journal article (to reflect changes made in peer review and editing)
* “publisher-created version” – the definitive final record of published research that appears in the journal and embodies all value-adding publisher activities including copy-editing, formatting and pagination. |
