List of academic publishers by preprint policy
This is a list of
Publishers' policies on self-archiving (including of preprint versions) can also be found at
Policies by publisher
Submission of preprints is accepted by all
In general, most publishers that permit preprints require that:
- the authors disclose the existence of the preprint at submission (e.g. in the cover letter)
- once an article is published, the preprint should link to the published version (typically via DOI)
- the preprint should not have been formally peer reviewed
Publishers may place additional restrictions (e.g. specifying non-commercial servers or preferred licenses). Most publishers have a unified policy across all of their journals, however some journals list exceptions in their own policies.
Publisher | Restrictions | Source | ||
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Location | Version | License | ||
American Association for the Advancement of Science | Not-for-profit servers (e.g. arXiv, bioRxiv, chemRxiv, medRxiv) | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [2] |
American Association for Cancer Research | Unrestricted | Must not post revised manuscript (after peer review or editorial comment) | Unrestricted | [3] |
American Association for Physics in Medicine
|
Non-commercial servers (e.g. Open Science Framework, Zenodo )
|
Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [4] |
American Chemical Society | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [5] |
Association for Computing Machinery | Non-commercial servers (e.g. Open Science Framework, Zenodo )
|
Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [6] |
American Geophysical Union | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [7] |
American Heart Association | Unrestricted | Versions of a manuscript that have been altered as a result of the peer review process may not be deposited | Unrestricted | [8] |
American Institute of Physics (AIP Publishing) | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [9] |
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [10] |
American Physical Society | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [11] |
American Physiological Society | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [12] |
American Phytopathological Society | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [13] |
American Psychiatric Association Publishing
|
Unrestricted | Submitted manuscript must add meaningful new information above that already in the preprint | Unrestricted | [14] |
American Society of Agronomy | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | |
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | Not-for-profit servers (e.g. arXiv, bioRxiv, chemRxiv, medRxiv) | Unrestricted | Must assign publisher copyright or pay hybrid OA publication.
|
[15][16] |
American Society for Cell Biology | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [17] |
American Society for Clinical Investigation | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [18] |
American Society of Clinical Oncology | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [19] |
American Society for Microbiology | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Must assign publisher copyright or pay hybrid OA publication.
|
[20] |
American Society of Plant Biologists
|
Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [21] |
American Statistical Association | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | |
American Thoracic Society | Unrestricted | Versions of a manuscript that have been altered as a result of the peer review process may not be deposited | Unrestricted | [22] |
Beilstein-Institut
|
Non-commercial servers (e.g. Open Science Framework, Zenodo ) or the author's university repository
|
Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [23] |
British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery
|
Does not accept clinical research articles that have been shared as preprints. | Does not accept clinical research articles that have been shared as preprints. | Does not accept clinical research articles that have been shared as preprints. | [24] |
British Medical Journal Company | Not-for-profit servers (e.g. arXiv, bioRxiv, chemRxiv, medRxiv) | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [25][26] |
Canadian Science Publishing | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [27] |
Cambridge University Press | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [28] |
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [29] |
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Publishing | Unrestricted | Pre-publication version only | Unrestricted | [30] |
The Company of Biologists | Unrestricted | Versions of a manuscript that have altered as a result of the peer review process may not be deposited | Unrestricted | [31][32][33][34][35] |
Crop Science Society of America | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | |
eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
|
Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [36][37] |
Elsevier | Unrestricted, except:
Biophysical Journal also includes that: preprint posting is only permitted to a private website, arXiv, bioRxiv, chemRxiv, or GitHub.[38] |
Unrestricted, except:
Cell Press journals also include: Versions of a manuscript that have altered as a result of the peer review process may not be deposited.[39] |
Unrestricted | [40] |
Emerald Group Publishing | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [41] |
European Molecular Biology Organization Press | Unrestricted | No updated versions may be posted to preprint servers after initial submission to the journal. | Unrestricted | [42] |
European Respiratory Society | Unrestricted | Versions of a manuscript that have been altered as a result of the peer review process may not be deposited | Unrestricted | [43] |
Faculty of 1000
|
Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [44] |
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | If posted under any open access license, must pay hybrid OA publication.
|
[45] |
Frontiers Media | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [46] |
Genetics Society of America | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [47][48] |
Institute of Physics Publishing Publishing | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [49] |
IOS Press | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [50] |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [51] |
IUCr Journals | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [52] |
Japan Society for Cell Biology | Unrestricted | Versions of a manuscript that have been altered as a result of the peer review process may not be deposited | Unrestricted | [53] |
The JAMA Network
|
Unrestricted | Submitted manuscript must add meaningful new information above that already in the preprint | Unrestricted | [54] |
JMIR Publications
|
Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [55] |
The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery Inc. | Does not accept clinical research articles that have been shared as preprints. | Does not accept clinical research articles that have been shared as preprints. | Does not accept clinical research articles that have been shared as preprints. | [56] |
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
|
Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [57] |
Massachusetts Medical Society | nonprofit preprint server | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [58][59] |
Microbiology Society | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [60] |
MyJove Corp. | Not-for-profit servers (e.g. arXiv, bioRxiv, chemRxiv, medRxiv) | Unrestricted | When posting the preprint, authors should choose a CC BY-NC-ND license
|
[61] |
National Academy of Sciences | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [62][63][64] |
Optica | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [65] |
Oxford University Press | Unrestricted, except:
Nucleic Acids Research specifically prohibits Nature Precedings or PLOS Currents[66] (though both are no longer operative since 2018). |
Unrestricted | Unrestricted, except:
hybrid OA publication.[67]
|
[68] |
PeerJ | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [69] |
Public Library of Science | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [70] |
Rockefeller University Press | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [71] |
Royal Society Publishing
|
Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [72] |
SAGE Publishing
|
Unrestricted, except:
The following journals opt out of SAGE's publication policies: Acta Radiologica does not accept preprint submissions.[73] Political Insight 'may accept' preprint submissions.[74] California Management Review,[75] Index on Censorship,[76] Recherche et Applications en Marketing[77] and Pain News,[78] do not include a statement on either prior publication or preprints. |
Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [79] |
Society for Judgment and Decision Making | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [80] |
Society for Neuroscience | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [81] |
Soil Science Society of America | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | |
Springer Nature | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [82][83][84][85][86][87] |
Taylor & Francis | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [88] |
University of Chicago Press | Non-commercial servers (e.g. Open Science Framework, Zenodo )
Except: The American Naturalist also prohibits repositories with publications attached (e.g. PeerJ)[89] |
Unrestricted | License must be hybrid OA publication.
|
[90] |
WikiJournal User Group
|
Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [91] |
Wiley | Unrestricted, except:
Journal of Orthopaedic Research does not accept clinical research articles that have been shared as preprints.[92][93] |
Unrestricted, except:
Journal of Orthopaedic Research does not accept clinical research articles that have been shared as preprints.[94][95] |
Unrestricted, except:
Journal of Orthopaedic Research does not accept clinical research articles that have been shared as preprints.[96][97] |
[98][99] |
Wolters Kluwer | Unrestricted, except:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research Does not accept clinical research articles that have been shared as preprints. |
Unrestricted, except:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research Does not accept clinical research articles that have been shared as preprints. |
Unrestricted, except:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research Does not accept clinical research articles that have been shared as preprints. |
[100] |
World Scientific | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | Unrestricted | [101] |
See also
- Copyright policies of academic publishers
- Ingelfinger rule
- List of open-access journals
- List of preprint repositories
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External links
- SHERPA/RoMEO - a list of publisher policies on copyright, preprints, and self-archiving