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may reside with the authors or the publisher depending on the publisher's business model. For journals following a subscription model, where articles are accessed via a paywall, copyright is transferred from author to publisher. Sharing of the final formatted article is therefore typically never
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Subscription publishers typically require transfer of copyright ownership from the authors to the publisher, with the publisher monetising articles behind paywalls. The final version of an article as copyedited and typeset by the publisher is typically called the
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of the author's own chapter (if contributed to only one chapter) or 10% of the total book (if contributed to multiple chapters). The notable exception is Elsevier, which is the largest publisher to not permit chapter archiving under any circumstances.
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Open access publishers allow authors to retain their copyright, but attach a reuse license to the work so that it can be hosted by the publisher and openly shared, reused and adapted. Such publishers are funded either by charging authors
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of their articles for informal feedback. However, open preprint servers since the 1990s increased the scale and visibility of this process and raised the question as to whether this constituted 'prior publication' or merely 'sharing'.
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publishing policies focus on two main aspects: Whether a preprint article already openly shared can be submitted to a journal, and what version of the article can be subsequently openly shared after peer review has been
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The majority of academic journal publishers now accept submission of articles that have already been shared as preprints, with copyright of this version remaining with the author by default.
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i.e. may not be re-published, enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work without permission from original publisher
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database of journal policies). However, a relatively small number of academic book publishers dominate the market. Most publishers permit
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Academic publishers will not publish work that has already been published elsewhere, so a key issue has been the interpretation of a
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academic journals stands in contrast to this, where copyright is retained by the author and a reuse license (typically a
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author's own chapter (if contributed to only one chapter) or 10% of the total book (if contributed to multiple chapters)
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author's own chapter (if contributed to only one chapter) or full book (if contributed to multiple chapters)
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publishing policies are not consolidated into a single database (in contrast to the
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Typical publishing workflow for an academic journal article (
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of 6-18 months. Journal policies are consolidated in the
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Academic publishers fall broadly into two categories:
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List of copyright policies of academic publishers
subscription
open access
version of record
postprints
article processing fees
gold OA
diamond OA
Academic book
SHERPA/RoMEO
self-archiving
postprint version
Bloomsbury
Published
Cambridge University Press
Postprint
De Gruyter
Elsevier
Emerald
Oxford University Press
HASS
STEM
Routledge / Taylor & Francis
SAGE
SAGE
Springer Nature
Wiley


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