All uncited data, text, or images published in a JEI manuscript must NOT be published in any other academic journal, conference proceedings, or any other publication under copyright. Legally, we are unable to accept work that has been or is intended to be submitted for publication at competitions, pre-prints, or other journals without clear and publicly stated copyright licenses/permissions from these competitions/publishers.
Additionally, if work was performed in a research lab with government funding (typically at a university) you MUST make sure you have the permission of the head of the lab to publish the work.
All manuscripts at JEI are published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives License (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license allows you and others to share or reference your work for noncommercial uses as long as they give proper credit to you as the original author.
At JEI, we believe students' work should be easy to share and learn from, but also protected from plagiarism and copyright infringement. CC-BY-NC-ND lets your preprint be part of the scientific community while protecting your authorship.
By using CC-BY-NC-ND:
JEI and eiRxiv serve different roles in the scientific community, so they use different Creative Commons licenses
No. You may only submit the same manuscript to one journal at a time.
Many journals will remove a manuscript from the review process, no matter how far along it is, if it is discovered the manuscript was submitted to multiple journals at once. Journals also have the right to ban authors from submitting future manuscripts with them in these cases.
Submitting your manuscript to multiple journals at once puts you and the journal at risk of copyright infringement. In addition, when you submit a manuscript at JEI, our volunteers donate dozens of hours of their personal time to review your work and help you improve it. Submitting your work at multiple journals disrespects this effort and wastes volunteer time.
If you are going to submit your manuscript to a preprint, we recommend submitting to the preprint before you submit to JEI. This allows you to incorporate any feedback you get on your preprint into the manuscript you submit to JEI. However, please check the preprint’s copyright terms. JEI can only accept previously published preprints if their copyright clearly allows for future publication or adaptation (CC-BY, for example).
JEI manuscripts cannot be submitted to a preprint after they have entered scientific review at JEI. Doing so violates the CC-BY-NC-ND copyright agreement for your JEI manuscript.
If you have submitted to a preprint, please declare this during your submission so we can work with the preprint to link the two DOIs. By linking the DOIs this allows individuals who find your preprint to be able to easily see your published manuscript.
No. Your manuscript will be copyrighted through JEI and therefore your manuscript, data, and text cannot be published anywhere else. You and everyone else are free to cite the article, though!
Absolutely! Since your preprint is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND, you can share it anywhere as long as you give credit to all of the authors and do not use it to make money. We recommend linking to your DOI.
If your work has been published elsewhere and you are unsure whether submitting to JEI would violate copyright restrictions, please contact us.