General information

JEB offers the following author rights and access policies:

• Authors retain copyright
• All journal content is freely available six months after publication at the journal website
• Authors can opt to pay a fee to enable Open Access
• PMC deposition is provided for those authors funded by NIH, Wellcome Trust, HHMI and UK MRC

Access at the journal’s website

All journal content is freely available on the journal website without access barriers six months after publication of the relevant issue. This applies to all article types, including Research Articles, Reviews and Editorials. Some articles are made freely available immediately. Research Articles can also be made freely available immediately on publication through the payment of a subsidized Open Access fee.

PMC deposition

JEB offers PMC deposition for authors supported by funding bodies requiring inclusion in PMC: NIH, Wellcome Trust, HHMI and UK MRC. This deposition is carried out by JEB, free of charge. In addition, where authors pay for Open Access, articles will be deposited in PMC for immediate release.

Self-archiving

JEB authors may deposit a post-print, or a final, accepted version of their article within a repository if mandated by their funding body, or within an institutional repository if mandated by their institution provided that:

(i) the accepted peer-reviewed author manuscript is placed in the Repository in the unedited form in which it was submitted to the Journal and that you do not place the Article in the final form published by the Journal in the Repository; and
(ii) the Article may only be accessed for non-commercial purposes; and
(iii) the Article may not be included in third party article collections without the prior written consent of the Company; and
(iv) where the Article is posted on a website a link is included between the web page containing the Article and the final published article on the Journal’s website at jeb.biologists.org.

We request that authors deposit articles for release after 12 months or as mandated by their funding body or institution, provided that the article has already been published by the Journal.

Authors who pay the Open Access fee are also permitted to post the final, published PDF of their article on a website, institutional repository or other free public server, immediately upon publication, provided a link is included between the web page containing the Article and the Journal’s website at jeb.biologists.org.

New Open Access option

As part of our commitment to maximizing the free availability of articles online, JEB offers authors the option of making the full text version of their research articles Open Access for a subsidised fee of £1350 (plus VAT if applicable). Open Access articles will be published under a Creative Commons License and deposited in PubMed Central for immediate release. Authors will be given the option to select the Open Access option following the acceptance of their article.