Repository Policy

Bio-QI publishes under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), so authors are free to self-archive their work without asking permission.

Versions that may be self-archived

VersionMay it be deposited?When
Preprint (before peer review)YesAt any time
Postprint (author's accepted manuscript)YesOn acceptance
Publisher's PDF (final published version)YesImmediately on publication

Where

  • Repositories that comply with the Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
  • Institutional repositories
  • Discipline-specific archives
  • Personal websites

Suitable places include your institution's repository, a repository for your discipline, and general repositories such as Zenodo.

Conditions

  • The original publication in Bio-QI must be clearly cited, with a link to it.
  • No embargo period applies.

This policy is separate from the journal's Archiving Policy, which describes how the journal itself preserves its content.