Whats Sciences policy with respect to depositing papers on PubMed Central (PMC) and other archives?
For research papers created under grants awarded no earlier than 2 May 2005, and for which the authors are required by their funding agencies to make their research results publicly available, authors can have the “accepted version” of the paper posted to the funding body’s archive or designated repository, as long as the posting is no earlier than six months after final publication in Science, is linked back to the final Science version, and includes the published paper’s full reference citation. The “accepted version” is the version of the paper accepted for publication in Science after changes resulting from peer review, but before Science’s editing, image quality control, and production. This policy does not apply to editorials, reviews, or commentary pieces. In submitting to archives such as PMC, authors of Science papers should set the time of public release of the accepted version at six months after final publication in Science.
