Article Sharing

Authors who publish in Elsevier journals can share their research in several ways. Researchers who take subscribed access to articles published by Elsevier tin share too. There are some simple guidelines to follow, which vary depending on the article version you lot wish to share. Elsevier is a signatory to the STM Voluntary Principles for commodity sharing on Scholarly Collaboration Networks and a member of the Coalition for Responsible Sharing.

Preprint

  • Authors can share their preprint anywhere at whatever fourth dimension.
  • If accepted for publication, we encourage authors to link from the preprint to their formal publication via its Digital Object Identifier (DOI). Millions of researchers take access to the formal publications on ScienceDirect, and so links will aid your users to find, admission, cite, and use the best available version.
  • Authors can update their preprints on arXiv or RePEc with their accepted manuscript .

Please note:

  • Some gild-owned titles and journals that operate double-bullheaded peer review take dissimilar preprint policies. Please bank check the journals Guide for Authors for further data.
  • Preprints should non be added to or enhanced in any way in order to appear more like, or to substitute for, the final versions of manufactures.

Accepted Manuscript

Authors tin can share their accepted manuscript:

Immediately

  • via their non-commercial personal homepage or blog
  • by updating a preprint in arXiv or RePEc with the accustomed manuscript
  • via their inquiry institute or institutional repository for internal institutional uses or equally office of an invitation-only research collaboration work-group
  • directly by providing copies to their students or to research collaborators for their personal use
  • for private scholarly sharing equally part of an invitation-only piece of work grouping on commercial sites with which Elsevier has an agreement

Afterward the embargo period

  • via not-commercial hosting platforms such as their institutional repository
  • via commercial sites with which Elsevier has an agreement

In all cases accustomed manuscripts should:

  • link to the formal publication via its DOI
  • bear a CC-By-NC-ND license – this is piece of cake to do
  • if aggregated with other manuscripts, for example in a repository or other site, be shared in alignment with our hosting policy
  • non be added to or enhanced in any way to appear more like, or to substitute for, the published periodical article

Published Journal Article

Policies for sharing published journal articles differ for subscription and golden open up access articles:

Subscription articles

  • If you are an author, please share a link to your article rather than the total-text. Millions of researchers have access to the formal publications on ScienceDirect, and so links will help your users to observe, admission, cite, and use the best available version
  • If you are an author, yous may also share your Published Journal Article (PJA) privately with known students or colleagues for their personal use
  • Theses and dissertations which contain embedded PJAs as function of the formal submission tin exist posted publicly by the application institution with DOI links back to the formal publications on ScienceDirect
  • If y'all are affiliated with a library that subscribes to ScienceDirect you have boosted private sharing rights for others' enquiry accessed under that agreement. This includes use for classroom pedagogy and internal training at the establishment (including use in form packs and courseware programs), and inclusion of the article for grant funding purposes
  • Otherwise sharing is by agreement only
  • The Published Periodical Commodity cannot exist shared publicly, for instance on ResearchGate or Academia.edu, to ensure the sustainability of peer-reviewed research in journal publications.

Gold open up access articles

  • May exist shared according to the author-selected finish-user license and should contain a CrossMark logo, the stop user license, and a DOI link to the formal publication on ScienceDirect.

    How to adhere a user license

    Elsevier requires authors posting their accepted manuscript to attach a non-commercial Artistic Commons user license (CC-By-NC-ND). This is like shooting fish in a barrel to do. On your accepted manuscript add the following to the title page, copyright information page, or header /footer: © YEAR. Licensed nether the Creative Eatables [insert license details and URL].

    For instance:

    © <year>. This manuscript version is made available nether the CC-By-NC-ND iv.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

    You tin also include the license badges available from the Creative Commons website to provide visual recognition. If you are hosting your manuscript equally a webpage you will also discover the correct HTML code to add to your folio

    Quick definitions

    Preprint

    This is the author's own write-up of inquiry results and analysis that has not been peer reviewed, nor had any other value added to it by a publisher (such as formatting, copy-editing, technical enhancements, and the like).

    preprint example

    Accepted manuscript

    An accepted manuscript is the manuscript of an commodity that has been accepted for publication and which typically includes writer-incorporated changes suggested during submission, peer review, and editor-author communications. They exercise non include other publisher value-added contributions such every bit copy-editing, formatting, technical enhancements and (if relevant) pagination.

    Published journal article

    A published journal article (PJA) is the definitive final record of published research that appears or volition appear in the journal and embodies all value-adding publisher activities including peer review co-ordination, copy-editing, formatting, (if relevant) pagination, and online enrichment.

    example of published journal article