International Journal of Public Opinion Research Vol. 17 No. 4 © The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The World Association for Public Opinion Research. All rights reserved.
Authors and Reviewers Preferences for Modes of Submitting and Reviewing Manuscripts
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The publishing world is rapidly changing in many aspects, and it seems that scholarly journals are more affected by this than any other print category. One of the issues we will increasingly have to deal with in the future is online access to journal articles and what this means for authors rights and publishers businesses. For instance, the editors of IJPOR have agreed to a 24-months embargo on so-called post-prints. A post-print is defined as the authors final draft of a manuscript as accepted for publication by a journal, following peer review, but before it has undergone the copyediting and proof correction process. If authors make a version of their accepted article freely