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• The Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 formalizes these and other terms and conditions of publishing articles.

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The Core Practices are applicable to all involved in publishing scholarly literature: editors and their journals, publishers (and institutions). Therefore COPE's Core Practices should be considered alongside specific national and international codes of conduct for research and are not intended to replace these. Journals and Publishers should have robust and well-described, publicly documented practices in all the following areas for their journals:
https://publicationethics.org/core-practices

The Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 formalizes these and other terms and conditions of publishing articles.

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For both subscription and open access articles, published in proprietary titles, Elsevier is granted the following rights:

• The exclusive right to publish and distribute an article, and to grant rights to others, including for commercial purposes.
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• The right to provide the article in all forms and media so the article can be used on the latest technology even after publication.
• The authority to enforce the rights in the article, on behalf of an author, against third parties, for example in the case of plagiarism or copyright infringement.

Copyright aims to protect the specific way the article has been written to describe an experiment and the results. Elsevier is committed to its authors to protect and defend their work and their reputation and takes allegations of infringement, plagiarism, ethic disputes and fraud very seriously.

If an author becomes aware of a possible plagiarism, fraud or infringement we recommend contacting their Elsevier publishing contact who can then liaise with our in-house legal department. Note that certain open access user licenses may permit quite broad re-use that might otherwise be counted as copyright infringement. For details about how to seek permission to use an article see our permission page.

• Journal Complaint Policy
• Retraction of Paper

The Core Practices are applicable to all involved in publishing scholarly literature: editors and their journals, publishers (and institutions). Therefore COPE's Core Practices should be considered alongside specific national and international codes of conduct for research and are not intended to replace these. Journals and Publishers should have robust and well-described, publicly documented practices in all the following areas for their journals: https://publicationethics.org/core-practices

Journals should have a clearly described process for handling allegations, however they are brought to the journal's or publisher’s attention. Journals must take seriously allegations of misconduct pre-publication and post-publication. Policies should include how to handle allegations from whistleblowers.

Clear policies (that allow for transparency around who contributed to the work and in what capacity) should be in place for requirements for authorship and contributorship as well as processes for managing potential disputes

Journals should have a clearly described process for handling complaints against the journal, its staff, editorial board or publisher

There must be clear definitions of conflicts of interest and processes for handling conflicts of interest of authors, reviewers, editors, journals and publishers, whether identified before or after publication

Ethical oversight should include, but is not limited to, policies on consent to publication, publication on vulnerable populations, ethical conduct of research using animals, ethical conduct of research using human subjects, handling confidential data and ethical business/marketing practices.

All policies on intellectual property, including copyright and publishing licenses, should be clearly described. In addition, any costs associated with publishing should be obvious to authors and readers. Policies should be clear on what counts as prepublication that will preclude consideration. What constitutes plagiarism and redundant/overlapping publication should be specified.