If I post a preprint or a preliminary item on E-LIS and then publish it, or a revised edition is published in a journal or volume, can the item remain on E-LIS?
Individual journal policies vary on this question. Whatever the policy, the authoritative document is the copyright agreement you sign with the publisher. If that agreement requires you to remove the posted preprint, you should. However, many publishers are adapting to the changing environment of electronic publishing. For example, Elsevier, the publisher of such journals as International Information and Library Review or Library and Information Science Research, states that contributors to its journals have “…the right to retain a preprint version of the article on a public electronic server such as the World Wide Web. Elsevier Science does not require that authors remove from publicly accessible servers versions of their paper that differ from the version as published by Elsevier Science.
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