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THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
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Copyright Policy
Elsevier Copyright Policy
At Elsevier Science we are sensitive to authors' needs. Researchers publishing in Elsevier Science journals have wide rights to use their works to support their research and teaching.
The research community needs certainty with respect to the validity, normally obtained through the peer review process, of scientific papers. The scientific record must be clear and unambiguous. Elsevier Science believes that it is important for researchers that when they access an Elsevier Science site to review a paper, they know that they are reading a final version of the paper which has been edited, peer-reviewed, and accepted for publication in an appropriate journal. The Internet is cluttered with versions of scientific papers having an unclear scientific status, and it is important that these be distinguished from the definitive final version as published in a journal.
For that reason, the exclusive distribution rights obtained by Elsevier Science refer to the article as published, bearing our logo and having exactly the same appearance as it has in the journal. Authors retain the right to keep preprints of their articles on their homepages (and/or relevant preprint servers) and to update their content, for example to take account of errors discovered during the editorial process, provided these do not mimic the appearance of the published version. They are encouraged to include a link to Elsevier Science's online version of the paper to give readers easy access to the definitive version.
Authors also retain the right to photocopy or make single electronic copies of the article as published for their own personal use, including for their own classroom use, or for the personal use of colleagues, provided those copies are not offered for sale and are not distributed in a systematic way outside of the employing institution.
Excerpted from:
A. Sevenster. Recent Elsevier Science Publishing Policies. EATCS Bulletin number 75, Oct 2001, pages 301-303.
Further information:
Liberalization of Copyright
Elsevier Copyright Policy FAQ
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