What is the copyright policy?

Copyright of published papers

   Copyright in academic papers or various publications may sometimes be partly transferred to the journal-publishing societies. (See their submission guidelines for details, or SCPJ also has the information on or links to their online submission guidelines.)
   So much so that dissemination of these published articles made from institutional repositories or other non-publishers' domains, even via the authors' website, may require permission from these societies in addition to the authors' grant of licence to make them accessible on the Internet. Permission on an article-by-article basis being nuisance for all concerned, many academic socieies these days come to set their own comprehensive copyright policy for dissemination of the articles under which they can uniformly and sometimes conditionally decide to let the external parties open their articles to the public online.
   It is SCPJ database that stores the copyright policies of Japanese academic societies in a well-organized manner for easy use.

Author-created version and Published version

   The so-called "final author-created version" is often allowed to be made available from outside the publication's website. It is generally the author-created, accepted version for future publishing the author has at hand.
   Although this version may sometimes incorporate additional conditions such as pre-print only and/or post-print only, which slightly change the publisher policies, what the author has with him or her basically accounts for the author-created version, not at all the published version. In some cases, your publisher will allow you as an author to place as it is a published-version outside the publication domain. The SCPJ database refers to such a policy as "Published version freely available" indicating that you are allowed to disseminate the published-version without permission from the publisher.

Societies not found in SCPJ

   While the SCPJ project team, take our own surveys to present as many copyrigiht policies of academic societies as possible we would also like to share the results of the queries for your copyright clearance.
   Please inform us at of the society's open access policy not seen in SCPJ if you succeed in obtaining the society copyright policy, together with permission to deposit an invidiaul paper.
   A sample questionnaire format is available from the links below, which is both for your reference and for convenience of data entry.
   Please note that the users of this format themselves must be contacted first from the survey respondents when using this format for your survey. Since we also take a similar survey using this format from time to time, you may please articulate your contact information for your survey.

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