Policies for World Political Science Review
Contents
- Philosophy of World Political Science Review
- Who Can Submit?
- Formatting Requirements
- Copyright and Open Access Permissions
- General Terms and Conditions of Use
Philosophy of World Political Science Review
World Political Science Review publishes translations of articles that have appeared recently in non-English language political science, public policy, and public administration journals. The editorial board of the journal consists of representatives of participating national associations and journals.
Who Can Submit?
Articles may be nominated for the World Political Science Review by any non-English language political science association or journal. Please send your nomination to Dr. Michael Howlett at .
Formatting Requirements
World Political Science Review has no general rules about the formatting of articles upon initial submission. There are, however, rules governing the formatting of the final submission. See Final Manuscript Preparation Guidelines for bepress journals.
Although bepress can provide limited technical support, it is ultimately the responsibility of the author or editor to produce an electronic version of the article as a high-quality PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) file, or a Microsoft Word, WordPerfect or RTF file that bepress can convert to a PDF file.
It is understood that the current state of technology of Adobe's Portable
Document Format (PDF) is such that there are no, and can be no, guarantees that
documents in PDF will work perfectly with all possible hardware and software
configurations that readers may have.
Copyright and Open Access Permissions
As further described in our submission agreement, in consideration for publication of the article, the authors assign to The Berkeley Electronic Press all copyright in the article, subject to the expansive personal-use exceptions described below.
Attribution and Usage Policies
Reproduction, posting, transmission or other distribution or use of the article or any material therein, in any medium as permitted by a personal-use exemption or by written agreement of The Berkeley Electronic Press, requires credit to The Berkeley Electronic Press as copyright holder (e.g., The Berkeley Electronic Press © 2008).
Personal-use Exceptions
The following uses are always permitted to the author(s) and do not require further permission from The Berkeley Electronic Press provided the author does not alter the format or content of the articles, including the copyright notification:
- Posting of the article on the author(s) personal website, provided that the website is non-commercial;
- Posting of the article on the internet as part of a non-commercial open access institutional repository or other non-commercial open access publication site affiliated with the author(s)'s place of employment (e.g., a Phrenology professor at the University of Southern North Dakota can have her article appear in the University of Southern North Dakota's Department of Phrenology online publication series);
- Authors are allowed to deposit their articles to PubMedCentral and UKPubMedCentral twelve months after publication, which satisfies the open access mandates of all major government and foundation research grants. Bepress deposits the content of some journals automatically on behalf of authors; see http://www.bepress.com/wpsr/about.html to see if this applies in your case.
- Posting of the article on a non-commercial course website for a course being taught by the author at the university or college employing the author; and
- Storage and back-up of the article on the author's computer(s) and digital media (e.g., diskettes, back-up servers, Zip disks, etc.), provided that the article stored on these computers and media is not readily accessible by persons other than the author(s).
People seeking an exception, or who have questions about use, should contact The Berkeley Electronic Press at .
General Terms and Conditions of Use
Users of the bepress website and/or software agree not to misuse the bepress service or software in any way.
The failure of bepress to exercise or enforce any right or provision in the policies or the Submission Agreement does not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any term of the Submission Agreement or these policies is found to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Submission Agreement and these policies remain in full force and effect. These policies and the Submission Agreement constitute the entire agreement between bepress and the Author(s) regarding submission of the Article.