List of academic publishers by preprint policy

This is a list of publishers of academic journals by their submission policies regarding the use of preprints prior to publication (example list).

Publishers' policies on self-archiving (including of preprint versions) can also be found at SHERPA/RoMEO.

Policies by publisher

Submission of preprints is accepted by all open access journals. Over the last decade, they have been joined by most subscription journals, however publisher policies are often vague or ill-defined.^[1]

In general, most publishers that permit preprints require that:

• the authors disclose the existence of the preprint at submission (e.g. in the cover letter)
• once an article is published, the preprint should link to the published version (typically via DOI)
• the preprint should not have been formally peer reviewed

Publishers may place additional restrictions (e.g. specifying non-commercial servers or preferred licenses). Most publishers have a unified policy across all of their journals, however some journals list exceptions in their own policies.

Publisher	Restrictions			Source
	Location	Version	License
American Association for the Advancement of Science	Not-for-profit servers (e.g. arXiv, bioRxiv, chemRxiv, medRxiv)	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[2]
American Association for Cancer Research	Unrestricted	Must not post revised manuscript (after peer review or editorial comment)	Unrestricted	[3]
American Association for Physics in Medicine	Non-commercial servers (e.g. arXiv, Open Science Framework, Zenodo)	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[4]
American Chemical Society	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[5]
Association for Computing Machinery	Non-commercial servers (e.g. arXiv, Open Science Framework, Zenodo)	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[6]
American Geophysical Union	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[7]
American Heart Association	Unrestricted	Versions of a manuscript that have been altered as a result of the peer review process may not be deposited	Unrestricted	[8]
American Institute of Physics (AIP Publishing)	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[9]
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[10]
American Physical Society	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[11]
American Physiological Society	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[12]
American Phytopathological Society	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[13]
American Psychiatric Association Publishing	Unrestricted	Submitted manuscript must add meaningful new information above that already in the preprint	Unrestricted	[14]
American Society of Agronomy	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	Not-for-profit servers (e.g. arXiv, bioRxiv, chemRxiv, medRxiv)	Unrestricted	Must assign publisher copyright or pay Article Processing Charge for hybrid OA publication.	[15][16]
American Society for Cell Biology	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[17]
American Society for Clinical Investigation	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[18]
American Society of Clinical Oncology	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[19]
American Society for Microbiology	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Must assign publisher copyright or pay Article Processing Charge for hybrid OA publication.	[20]
American Society of Plant Biologists	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[21]
American Statistical Association	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted
American Thoracic Society	Unrestricted	Versions of a manuscript that have been altered as a result of the peer review process may not be deposited	Unrestricted	[22]
Beilstein-Institut	Non-commercial servers (e.g. arXiv, Open Science Framework, Zenodo) or the author's university repository	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[23]
British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery	Does not accept clinical research articles that have been shared as preprints.	Does not accept clinical research articles that have been shared as preprints.	Does not accept clinical research articles that have been shared as preprints.	[24]
British Medical Journal Company	Not-for-profit servers (e.g. arXiv, bioRxiv, chemRxiv, medRxiv)	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[25][26]
Canadian Science Publishing	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[27]
Cambridge University Press	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[28]
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[29]
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Publishing	Unrestricted	Pre-publication version only	Unrestricted	[30]
The Company of Biologists	Unrestricted	Versions of a manuscript that have altered as a result of the peer review process may not be deposited	Unrestricted	[31][32][33][34][35]
Crop Science Society of America	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted
De Gruyter	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[36]
eLife Sciences Publications Ltd	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[37][38]
Elsevier	Unrestricted, except: Biophysical Journal also includes that: preprint posting is only permitted to a private website, arXiv, bioRxiv, chemRxiv, or GitHub.[39]	Unrestricted, except: Cell Press journals also include: Versions of a manuscript that have altered as a result of the peer review process may not be deposited.[40]	Unrestricted	[41]
Emerald Group Publishing	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[42]
European Molecular Biology Organization Press	Unrestricted	No updated versions may be posted to preprint servers after initial submission to the journal.	Unrestricted	[43]
European Respiratory Society	Unrestricted	Versions of a manuscript that have been altered as a result of the peer review process may not be deposited	Unrestricted	[44]
Faculty of 1000	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[45]
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	If posted under any open access license, must pay Article Processing Charge for hybrid OA publication.	[46]
Frontiers Media	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[47]
Genetics Society of America	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[48][49]
Institute of Physics Publishing Publishing	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[50]
IOS Press	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[51]
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[52]
IUCr Journals	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[53]
Japan Society for Cell Biology	Unrestricted	Versions of a manuscript that have been altered as a result of the peer review process may not be deposited	Unrestricted	[54]
The JAMA Network	Unrestricted	Submitted manuscript must add meaningful new information above that already in the preprint	Unrestricted	[55]
JMIR Publications	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[56]
The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery Inc.	Does not accept clinical research articles that have been shared as preprints.	Does not accept clinical research articles that have been shared as preprints.	Does not accept clinical research articles that have been shared as preprints.	[57]
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[58]
Massachusetts Medical Society	nonprofit preprint server	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[59][60]
Microbiology Society	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[61]
MyJove Corp.	Not-for-profit servers (e.g. arXiv, bioRxiv, chemRxiv, medRxiv)	Unrestricted	When posting the preprint, authors should choose a CC BY-NC-ND license	[62]
National Academy of Sciences	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[63][64][65]
Optica	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[66]
Oxford University Press	Unrestricted, except: Nucleic Acids Research specifically prohibits Nature Precedings or PLOS Currents[67] (though both are no longer operative since 2018).	Unrestricted	Unrestricted, except: American Society for Nutrition journals require that if posted under any open access license, author must pay Article Processing Charge for hybrid OA publication.[68]	[69]
PeerJ	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[70]
Public Library of Science	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[71]
Rockefeller University Press	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[72]
Royal Society Publishing	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[73]
SAGE Publishing	Unrestricted, except: The following journals opt out of SAGE's publication policies: Acta Radiologica does not accept preprint submissions.[74] Political Insight 'may accept' preprint submissions.[75] California Management Review,[76] Index on Censorship,[77] Recherche et Applications en Marketing[78] and Pain News,[79] do not include a statement on either prior publication or preprints.	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[80]
Society for Judgment and Decision Making	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[81]
Society for Neuroscience	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[82]
Soil Science Society of America	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted
SPIE	Unrestricted	Pre-publication version only	Unrestricted	[83]
Springer Nature	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[84][85][86][87][88][89]
Taylor & Francis	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[90]
University of Chicago Press	Non-commercial servers (e.g. arXiv, Open Science Framework, Zenodo) Except: The American Naturalist also prohibits repositories with publications attached (e.g. PeerJ)[91]	Unrestricted	License must be CC BY-NC. If CC BY, must pay Article Processing Charge for hybrid OA publication.	[92]
WikiJournal User Group	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[93]
Wiley	Unrestricted, except: Journal of Orthopaedic Research does not accept clinical research articles that have been shared as preprints.[94][95]	Unrestricted, except: Journal of Orthopaedic Research does not accept clinical research articles that have been shared as preprints.[96][97]	Unrestricted, except: Journal of Orthopaedic Research does not accept clinical research articles that have been shared as preprints.[98][99]	[100][101]
Wolters Kluwer	Unrestricted, except: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research Does not accept clinical research articles that have been shared as preprints.	Unrestricted, except: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research Does not accept clinical research articles that have been shared as preprints.	Unrestricted, except: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research Does not accept clinical research articles that have been shared as preprints.	[102]
World Scientific	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	[103]

See also

• Copyright policies of academic publishers
• Ingelfinger rule
• List of open-access journals
• List of preprint repositories
• List of research funders by preprint licensing policy