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Open Access and Copyright

All articles from January 2019 onwards are published with open access under the CC-BY Creative Commons attribution license (the current version is CC-BY, version 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). This means that the author(s) retain copyright, but the content is free to download, distribute and adapt for commercial or non-commercial purposes, given appropriate attribution to the original article.

Upon submission, author(s) grant AEE an exclusive license to publish, including to display, store, copy and reuse the content. The CC-BY Creative Commons attribution license enables anyone to use the publication freely, given appropriate attribution to the author(s) and citing AEE as the original publisher. The CC-BY Creative Commons attribution license does not apply to third-party materials that display a copyright notice to prohibit copying. Unless the third-party content is also subject to a CC-BY Creative Commons attribution license, or an equally permissive license, the author(s) must comply with any third-party copyright notices.

Preprint Policy

AEE’ supportive preprint policy encourages full open access at all stages of a research paper, to share and generate the knowledge researchers need to support their work. Authors publishing in AEE journals may share their work ahead of submission to a peer-reviewed journal, as well as during the AEE review process, on repositories or pre-print servers (such as ArXiv, PeerJ Preprints, OSF and others), provided that the server imposes no restrictions upon the author's full copyright and re-use rights. Also note that any manuscript files shared after submission to AEE journals, during the review process, must not contain the AEE logo or branding.

Correct attribution of the original source in repositories or pre-print servers must be included on submission, or added at re-submission if the deposition is done during the review process.

If the article is published, authors are then strongly encouraged to link from the preprint server to the AEE publication to enable readers to find, access and cite the final peer-reviewed version. Please note that we cannot consider for publication content that has been previously published, or is already under review, within a scientific journal, book or similar entity.

Article Sharing

AEE is a signatory of the STM Voluntary Principles for Article Sharing on Scholarly Collaboration Networks as well as a member of the Coalition for Responsible Sharing. We believe that scholarly sharing is essential to maximize the dissemination of knowledge and to enable research collaboration. Authors who publish in AEE publications can share their research in various ways depending on the article version they wish to share:

• Preprints. Authors can share their preprint anytime anywhere. If accepted for publication, we encourage Authors to link from the preprint to the final published article via its Digital Object Identifier (DOI). Millions of researchers have access to formal publications, so these links will help users to find, access, cite and use the best available version. Note that some society-owned journals, as well as journals which operate double- or triple-blind peer review, may have different preprint policies which can be found on the relevant journal’s homepage if applicable. Under no circumstances should preprints be added to or enhanced in any way to appear more like, or to substitute for, the final versions of articles.
• Accepted Manuscripts. Authors can share their accepted manuscript immediately via their non-commercial personal homepage or blog, by updating a preprint with the accepted manuscript in preprint databases such as arXiv or RePEc, by providing copies to their students or to research collaborators for their personal use, via their institutional repository or other non-commercial hosting platforms or via commercial sites with which AEE has an agreement. In any case, accepted manuscripts should: (a) link to the final published article via its DOI; (b) bear a valid Creative Commons user license; (c) if aggregated with other manuscripts, for example in a repository or other site, be shared in alignment with our hosting policy; (d) not be added to or enhanced in any way to appear more like, or to substitute for, the final published article.
• Final Published Articles (a.k.a. ‘versions of record’). These may be shared according to the relevant user license and should contain the applicable end-user license and a DOI link to the citable version of record on the AEE platform. Note that this means that any articles bearing a non-commercial (NC-designated) Creative Commons license cannot be shared publicly on commercial platforms or scholarly collaboration networks such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu.

For more information about all aspects of scholarly sharing and for practical tools on how and where an article can be shared, please visit http://www.howcanishareit.com/.

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