Copyright
The author(s) of the accepted paper will have to fill in the copyright form electronically. A paper cannot be accepted as long as the copyright form has not been completed.
| The author(s) shall have the following rights: |
| (1) All proprietary rights other than copyright, such as patent rights. |
| (2) The right, after publication by EPLA, to use all or part of the article without revision or modification including the EPLA-formatted version, in personal compilations or other publications of the authors’ own works, including the authors’ personal home page, and to make copies of all or part of the article for the authors’ use for lecture or classroom purposes. |
| (3) In addition to the above, no sooner than 12 months from the date of first publication of the article, the authors may include the accepted manuscript (all or part), as long as files prepared and/or formatted by EPLA are not used, (a) on websites of the institution (including its repository) where the authors worked when research for the article was carried out; (b) on third-party websites, including e-print servers, but not on other publisher’s websites… Any such posting made or updated after acceptance of the article for publication shall include a link to the online abstract in EPL or to the entry page of EPL. |
| (4) To the extent that there are moral rights in the article, the authors expressly reserve and assert their moral rights to be identified as authors of the article. |
