Down Syndrome Research and Practice
Publication Policies
Further policies and guidelines
Copyright and licence policies
Open Access
All works published in Down Syndrome Research and Practice journals are
Open Access.
They are licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial Licence. When complete, contributions
are made available online and anyone may read, download, redistribute, include in
databases, and otherwise use the contribution for non-commercial purposes as long
as the original authorship and source are appropriately attributed. This license
encourages widespread dissemination, but does not permit derivative works.
Publishing licence
To permit publication and widespread dissemination of their contribution, authors
(or the copyright owner, if not the authors) are requested to grant Down Syndrome Education Internationala perpetual licence to publish the submission under the
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial Licence.
Prior to publication, you may share copies of your submission with colleagues and
post on a web site or repository. Once your submission is accepted for publication,
we request that you include a full bibliographic reference in all copies that you
circulate. As soon as it is provided, this reference should include the DOI assigned
to the contribution.
Authors' copyrights
Ownership of the copyrights in the submission remain with the authors (or original
copyright owner, if not the authors).
Publication charges
Publication charges are not requested for News, Research
Highlights, Updates, Practice Reports, Resources Reviews,
Correspondence, Guidelines, Essays, or Reprints.
Where researchers do have funds available to support publication, we do request
the payment of publication fees to partly cover the costs of editorial and peer
review and preparation of submitted Reports, Reviews, Case Studies,
Hypotheses, Perspectives and Opinions. The publication
fee is £500.00 (€750.00 / US$1000.00). Where authors do not have the funds available
(either from project grants or their institution) to cover publication fees, we
are able to waive the fee. We keep fee payment status information hidden from editors
and reviewers so that ability to pay cannot influence publication decisions.
Researchers may like to review the following resources about funding open access
publishing:
Data sharing
Publication is conditional upon the agreement of authors to make freely available
any materials and information associated with their contribution that in response
to the reasonable requests of others for the purpose of academic, non-commercial
research. In particular:
- Data for which public repositories have been established that are in general use
should be deposited before publication, and the appropriate accession numbers or
digital object identifiers published with the paper.
- If an appropriate repository does not exist, data should be provided as supporting
information with the published paper. If this is not practical, data should be made
freely available upon reasonable request.
- The conclusions of a study must not be dependent solely on the analysis of proprietary
data. If proprietary data were used to reach a conclusion, and the authors are unwilling
or unable to make these data public, then the paper must include an analysis of
public data that validates the conclusions so that others can reproduce the analysis
and build on the findings.
Down Syndrome Education Internationalis planning a data repository (Down Syndrome
DataBank) for scientific data pertaining to Down syndrome. This is intended
to supplement other public repositories. Please contact us or see our
web site for further details.
Down Syndrome Abstracts is a new service being developed by Down Syndrome Education International. It will be freely accessible online and will carry abstracts
and references for material relevant to Down syndrome, which will include (but exceed)
those also carried in PsycINFO,
PubMed or ERIC. Since PsycINFO carries
much that is not included in PubMed, but is
not freely accessible, we hope this service will be of assistance to the research
community, as well as the wider constituencies that we serve. We will be inviting
the research community to assist us in maintaining this service. All Down Syndrome
Research and Practice content will be indexed in this service.
A further service being developed by Down Syndrome Education Internationalis an online
archive to gather, index and preserve material relevant to Down syndrome to provide
a convenient point of access for researchers, professionals and families. All Down
Syndrome Research and Practice content will be deposited in this archive.
In addition, we will be encouraging the scientific community (copyright assignments
permitting) to volunteer suitable papers, presentations, books and chapters for
inclusion, indexing and preservation in the Down Syndrome Archive. Authors
may (indeed, should) freely deposit in multiple repositories, as appropriate for
the field of study.