Open Access Policy

Open Access Policy

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Open Access

NEU is a fully open-access, peer-reviewed journal. All published articles are made freely, immediately, and permanently available online under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0).

Readers are not required to pay subscription, registration, pay-per-view, or access fees, or to register to read the journal’s content. The journal does not apply embargo periods to published content.

Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, index, analyse, and otherwise lawfully reuse published articles in accordance with the terms of the CC BY 4.0 licence.

Authors retain copyright and full publishing rights in their own original work and do not transfer copyright to the journal or Publisher.

Upon publication, authors grant iEditore a non-exclusive right of first publication and a non-exclusive right to publish, reproduce, distribute, preserve, register, index, promote, communicate, and make the article available as part of NEU.

Authors may share, deposit, reproduce, distribute, adapt, translate, and otherwise reuse their own original work without requesting permission from the journal or Publisher, subject only to any rights, permissions, confidentiality obligations, or other restrictions applying to third-party material included in the article.

The Creative Commons licence applied to the published article governs reuse by readers and other third parties. It does not restrict the authors’ exercise of the copyright they retain in their own original work.

Authors retain their moral rights to the extent recognized by applicable law, including the right to be identified as the authors of the work.

Creative Commons Licence

Articles published by NEU are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0).

The CC BY 4.0 licence permits readers and other third parties to:

  • copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format;
  • share the article through websites, repositories, databases, educational platforms, and other services;
  • adapt, translate, remix, transform, and build upon the material;
  • reuse the material for research, educational, professional, and commercial purposes.

These permissions apply provided that users give appropriate credit, provide a link to the licence, and indicate whether changes were made.

The licence information is displayed on the article webpage and included in the published article file.

Reuse and Attribution

When reusing material published by NEU, users must provide appropriate attribution to the original authors and source.

Attribution should include, where available:

  • the names of the authors;
  • the title of the article;
  • the journal title;
  • the year, volume, issue, and page or article number;
  • the article DOI or permanent URL;
  • a link to the CC BY 4.0 licence;
  • an indication of whether the material has been modified, translated, or adapted.

Users must retain any copyright, licence, and disclaimer notices supplied with the material, as required by the licence.

Attribution must not suggest that the authors, journal, editors, or Publisher endorse the user, the reuse, a product, a service, or an adapted interpretation.

Users must not apply legal terms or technological measures that prevent others from exercising the rights permitted by the licence.

Third-Party Material

The CC BY 4.0 licence applies only to material for which the authors or Publisher are legally entitled to grant that licence.

Figures, tables, photographs, clinical images, questionnaires, scales, instruments, illustrations, datasets, multimedia files, and other third-party material may be subject to separate copyright, licensing, privacy, consent, or contractual restrictions.

Where third-party material is excluded from the article’s Creative Commons licence, this must be indicated in the relevant credit line, figure legend, table note, or other accompanying statement.

Where the intended use is not permitted by the material’s licence or an applicable legal exception, users must obtain permission directly from the relevant rights holder.

Authors are responsible for obtaining and documenting all permissions required for third-party material before publication.

Self-Archiving and Repository Deposit

NEU permits authors to deposit and share versions of their manuscripts in institutional repositories, subject repositories, personal academic webpages, research networks, and other non-exclusive scholarly platforms.

Authors may deposit:

  • the submitted manuscript;
  • the accepted manuscript following the applicable editorial and peer-review process;
  • the published Version of Record.

No embargo period is imposed by the journal.

When depositing the published Version of Record, authors should include the complete citation, DOI, a link to the journal webpage, and the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0) statement.

Deposited versions should be clearly identified so that readers can distinguish between the submitted manuscript, accepted manuscript, and final Version of Record.

Article Versions and Early Publication

The submitted manuscript is the version provided by the authors for editorial evaluation and, where applicable, peer review. It must not be presented as an accepted or published article.

The accepted manuscript is the version approved following completion of the applicable editorial and peer-review process, before copyediting, typesetting, author proofreading, and final production.

Following completion of copyediting, typesetting, author proofreading, metadata verification, and final editorial quality checks, the article is published as the Version of Record.

The Version of Record is the final and authoritative version for citation, interpretation, and reuse.

Articles may be published as final Online First Versions of Record before assignment to a regular issue. Online First articles receive their final DOI and are fully citable. When an article is subsequently assigned to an issue, its bibliographic record is updated without altering the scientific content of the Version of Record.

The licence and version status applicable to each published file must be clearly indicated on the article webpage or within the relevant document.

Preprints and Prior Dissemination

The prior deposit of a manuscript on a recognized preprint server, institutional repository, or personal academic webpage does not normally prevent submission to NEU.

Previous publication of a conference abstract, poster, presentation, thesis, dissertation, registered report, study protocol, or other limited preliminary version does not automatically constitute duplicate publication.

Authors must disclose all relevant prior dissemination at the time of submission and provide the DOI, URL, citation, or other permanent identifier where available.

A manuscript developed from previously disseminated material must provide a sufficiently complete and original scholarly contribution and must comply with the journal’s policies concerning duplicate publication, copyright, transparency, and attribution.

After publication, authors are encouraged to update the preprint or repository record with the full citation and a direct link to the Version of Record.

Text and Data Mining

The CC BY 4.0 licence permits lawful text and data mining, computational analysis, machine processing, indexing, and automated extraction of information from published articles.

Users conducting text or data mining must comply with the attribution requirements of the licence and must not misrepresent the source, meaning, findings, or authorship of the published material.

The reuse of clinical images, patient information, sensitive data, third-party material, or restricted supplementary files may remain subject to additional ethical, legal, privacy, consent, and licensing requirements.

Publication and Access Fees

NEU operates as a diamond open-access journal, with articles published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0), and does not charge fees to authors or readers.

The journal does not charge:

  • article processing charges (APCs);
  • submission fees;
  • publication fees;
  • page charges;
  • fees based on article length;
  • colour figure charges;
  • supplementary material fees;
  • subscription or pay-per-view charges.

Authors are not required to pay for editorial evaluation, peer review, acceptance, publication, or routine production of their articles.

Separate institutional, conference, sponsorship, printing, or publishing-service agreements do not influence the evaluation, peer review, acceptance, or rejection of individual manuscripts.

For information concerning Special Issues, supplements, and conference publications, please refer to the journal’s Editorial Policies.

Contact

Questions concerning this policy, copyright, licensing, permissions, reuse, or repository deposit may be addressed to:

Editorial Office
NEU
Email: redazioneneu@anin.it