Author Rights
Open Access Articles
Articles published under Open Access licenses are protected by copyright as indicated in the respective journal’s open access page. These articles can be shared, reproduced and distributed including in electronic forms, reprints, translations, photographic reproductions, or similar, under the respective Creative Commons licences.
Non-Open Access Articles
Articles published on the World Scientific website are protected by copyright held by World Scientific Publishing Company (or its subsidiaries). This copyright covers the exclusive rights to share, reproduce and distribute the article, including in electronic forms, reprints, translations, photographic reproductions, or similar. Except for articles published on an open access basis, the transfer of copyright to World Scientific (or its subsidiaries) becomes effective when an article is accepted for publication.
As author of a journal article, you retain the rights detailed in the following:
Publisher-created version (Version of Record)
- The publisher-created version (Version of Record) can only be posted where a gold open access fee has been paid and the article contains an OpenAccess logo.
- You may post your submitted manuscript (preprint) at any time on your personal website, in your company or institutional repository, in not-for-profit subject-based preprint servers or repositories, and on scholarly collaboration networks (SCNs) which have signed up to the STM sharing principles. Please provide the following acknowledgement along with a link to the article via its DOI if available.
- Preprint of an article submitted for consideration in [Journal] © [Year] [copyright World Scientific Publishing Company] [Journal URL]
- Preprint of an article published in [Journal, Volume, Issue, Year, Pages] [Article DOI] © [copyright World Scientific Publishing Company] [Journal URL]
World Scientific Journals and UKRI Open Access Policy
World Scientific complies fully with the open access requirements of UKRI, Wellcome, and NIHR. Authors can stay compliant with UKRI open access policy by going for Route 2 – the Green open access route.
Where required by their funder, journal authors retain the right to deposit their Author’s Accepted Manuscript (AAM) in an institutional and/or subject repository (e.g. EuropePMC) at the time of publication of the Version of Record, under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence or another Creative Commons license as permitted under UKRI’s licensing requirements. Articles must be accompanied by appropriate acknowledgements with citation and linking to the Version of Record on our website.
World Scientific Journals and Plan S
World Scientific complies fully with the open access requirements of Plan S under the “repository route”, also known as “green open access”.
Where required by their funder, journal authors retain the right to deposit their Author’s Accepted Manuscript (AAM), such as via an institutional and/or subject repository (e.g. EuropePMC) at the time of publication the Version of Record, under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence or another Creative Commons license as permitted under Plan S licensing requirements. Articles must be accompanied by appropriate acknowledgements with citation and linking to the Version of Record on our website.
- As authors of a journal article, (other than authors mentioned above), you may post the accepted author manuscript on your personal website, your company or institutional repository, not-for-profit subject-based preprint servers or repositories of your own choice or as stipulated by the Funding Agency and may share the article in private research groups including those on SCNs which have signed up to the STM sharing principles, after an embargo of 12 months from the online publication date of the Version of Record.
The private research groups must be formed by invitation for a specific research purpose and be of a size that is typical for research groups within the discipline. Sharing of articles must be limited to members of the group only. The SCNs which have signed up to the sharing principles are required to provide COUNTER compliant usage data to World Scientific by agreement.
Please provide the following acknowledgement along with a link to the article via its DOI if available:
- Electronic version of an article published as [Journal, Volume, Issue, Year, Pages] [Article DOI] © [copyright World Scientific Publishing Company] [Journal URL]
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) of your article can be found on the relevant webpage of WorldSciNet where your article is posted.
The above permissions apply to authors whose articles are to be published by World Scientific and authors who have purchased a copy or received a complimentary copy of their published article.
This policy does not apply to pay-per-view customers and subscribers, who should adhere to their respective agreed policies
Definitions:
- "preprint" - a version of an article created prior to peer review
- "accepted author manuscript" - an author-created version of the final journal article (to reflect changes made in peer review and editing), but which has not yet been branded, typeset, or copyedited by the publisher in any way.
- "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.