Common use of Workflow Clause in Contracts

Workflow. Open Access publishing of Eligible Articles (Hybrid) a) Upon an Eligible Article (Hybrid) being confirmed by the Licensee as detailed in 1(c) above, all authors will be contacted via email by the Licensor to inform them of the corresponding author’s right to publish the Eligible Article (Hybrid) as Open Access with no direct cost. b) Transacting author (who can be any of the Article authors, including the Eligible Corresponding Author) enters the Licensor’s open access portal and confirms acceptance of Open Access publishing for the Eligible Article (Hybrid). c) Transacting author confirms the corresponding author’s identity and the copyright ownership status of the Eligible Article (Hybrid). d) Transacting author selects the appropriate CC-BY license under which their Eligible Article (Hybrid) will be published. By default, the transacting author will be offered the CC BY 4.0 license. The Licensor’s open access portal will provide explanatory text alerting author to why license is displayed. Author may contact The Licensor OA customer service if another license is required. Authors retain copyright to their article. e) Transacting author digitally signs the Open Access license. f) If the Transacting author rejects Open Access publishing of the Eligible Article, the Eligible Article will be published in a traditional subscription only format, not as Open Access. g) If a transacting author does not respond to the Licensor offer of Open Access publishing, a reminder will be sent by the Licensor to all authors after 7 days. h) If the Transacting Author does not digitally sign the Open Access license (e – above) within 14 days, the Eligible Article will be published in a traditional subscription only format, not as Open Access. i) Eligible Corresponding Authors who have rejected Open Access publication of their Eligible Article (Hybrid), who have not signed the Open Access license after 14 days, or have chosen a license other than CC BY4.0 (or later version) for their Accepted Article may contact the Licensor’s open access customer service team to request the offer be resent at any time before article proofs have been issued. In addition the Licensor will share a list of these articles, twice per year (by the end of March and the end of September, or by other mutually agreed dates), with the National Library, before re-sending the offer to the Eligible Corresponding Author(s). Any Author of the Article may respond to that offer within 14 days to accept Open Access publishing and the workflow will proceed from 2 b) above.

Workflow. Open Access publishing of Eligible Articles (Hybrid) a) Upon an Eligible Article (Hybrid) being confirmed by the Licensee as detailed in 1(c) abovewith an Eligible Corresponding Author entering Publisher’s production system, all authors will be contacted via email by the Licensor Publisher to inform them of the corresponding author’s their right to publish the Eligible Article (Hybrid) as Open Access with no direct costat a reduced APC rate of £200. b) Transacting author (who can be any of the Article authors, including the Eligible Corresponding Author) enters the LicensorPublisher’s open access portal and confirms acceptance of Open Access publishing for the Eligible Article (Hybrid). c) Transacting author confirms the corresponding author’s their identity and the copyright ownership status of the Eligible Article (Hybrid). d) Transacting author selects the appropriate CC-BY license under which their Eligible Article (Hybrid) will be published. The list of possible CC licenses must include CC-BY 4.0 license. By default, the transacting author will be offered the CC BY BY-NC 4.0 license. The LicensorCC BY 4.0 will be offered when Publisher is aware of a funder mandate that applies. Publisher’s open access portal will provide explanatory text alerting author to why license license(s) is displayed. Author may contact The Licensor Publisher OA customer service if is another license is required. Authors retain copyright to their article. e) Transacting author digitally signs the Open Access license. f) If the Transacting author rejects Open Access publishing of the Eligible Article, the Eligible Article will be published in a traditional subscription only format, not as Open Access. g) If a transacting Transacting author does not respond to the Licensor Publisher offer of Open Access publishing, a reminder will be sent by the Licensor Publisher to all authors after 7 days. h) If the Transacting Author author does not digitally sign the Open Access license (e section (e) – above) within 14 days, the Eligible Article will be published in a traditional subscription only format, not as Open Access. i) Eligible Corresponding Authors who have rejected Open Access publication of their Eligible Article (Hybrid), ) or who have not signed the Open Access license after 14 days, or have chosen a license other than CC BY4.0 (or later version) for their Accepted Article days may contact the LicensorPublisher’s open access customer service team to request the offer be resent at any time before article proofs have been issued. In addition the Licensor will share a list of these articlesOnce article proofs have been issued, twice per year (by the end of March and the end of September, or by other mutually agreed dates), with the National Library, before re-sending the offer to the Eligible Corresponding Author(s). Any Author may request conversion to Open Access from Publisher’s open access customer service team and Publisher shall convert the Eligible Article (Hybrid) to an Open Access format, upon payment of a fee of £400 by the transacting author or their nominated ▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇ and upon the transacting author signing the Open Access license. j) Unless subject to section (i) above, the Eligible Article will be published as Open Access on payment of the Article may respond to that offer within 14 days to accept Open Access publishing and the workflow will proceed from 2 b) above£200 APC.