Public Repositories
Authors of Medical or Natural Science Articles
Authors are required to follow the specific restrictions and requirements of each journal to be found at Medical Journals or Natural Sciences Journals.
Authors of all other articles
Please see below
Author wishes to include own article in an institutional repository
The author's institute can offer free access to the article by creating a link to the original version ("referer URL") on its repository website. Access to the article will be available only to those users linking from the repository site. Please contact the Publisher for more information and exact procedures.
Author wishes to include own article on a personal website
WdG is pleased to allow authors to include their article abstract and an early version (unreviewed and unedited) of the article on their own personal website, as well as to place a link to the full version of the article for purchase. Other agreements may be stipulated in the Copyright Transfer Agreement. Unless expressly permitted, authors may not post the publisher's version on their own website.
Inclusion of articles in a general repository
General repositories may include the abstract of the article in the repository and place a link to the full version of the article for purchase.
Institutional repository wishes to include articles which do not exist in electronic format
WdG allows institutional repositories to include a scanned version of their authors' book or journal articles. We also request that a link is placed to our company website www.degruyter.com
Author wishes to place a link to abstract of an article
Authors may place as many links to the abstract as desired.
Author wishes to send electronic offprints (pdfs) to colleagues
Authors will receive an offprint of the article as pdf-document. This document will explicitly be marked as the author's personal document. Authors may send 30 copies of the article to colleagues from a personal author's domain on WdG's platform. These articles will be marked as author copies as well.
