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All articles in Genome Research are accessible online free of charge six months from the full-issue publication date, except for articles that carry the journal’s Open Access icon, which are made freely accessible online upon publication in return for a fee paid by their authors.
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Authors of articles published in Genome Research retain copyright of the articles (except US Government employees) but grant Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press exclusive right to publish the articles. This grant of rights lasts for six months following full-issue publication for all non-Open Access articles and includes the rights to publish, reproduce, distribute, display, and store the article in all formats; to translate the article into other languages; to create adaptations, summaries, extracts, or derivations of the article; and to license others to do any or all of the above.
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Authors of articles published in Genome Research can reuse their articles in their work as long as Genome Research is credited as the place of original publication. They can also archive the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press PDF version of their article with their institution, immediately on publication if it is an Open Access article and 6 months after publication if it is a non-Open Access article.
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press will deposit articles in PubMed Central where they will be released to the public six months following the full-issue publication date (with the exception of Open Access papers, which are made freely available in PubMed Central immediately upon full-issue publication).
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Preprint servers: Conference presentations or posting un-refereed manuscripts on community preprint servers will not be considered prior publication. Authors are responsible for updating the archived preprint with the journal reference (including DOI), and a link to the published article on the Genome Research website upon publication. Submission to the journal implies that another journal or book is not currently considering the paper. Submitted manuscripts are subject to press embargo.
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