MSP

All art­icles pub­lished by MSP be­come open ac­cess after five years past pub­lic­a­tion (mean­ing on the fifth Janu­ary 1st after the pub­lic­a­tion date). MEMOCS and JSAG are dia­mond open ac­cess pub­lic­a­tions (free to read, free to pub­lish).

MSP is a no-em­bargo green open ac­cess pub­lish­er. We ac­cept sub­mis­sions of work that is avail­able on open archives in pre­print form. We al­low au­thors to de­pos­it the last ver­sion of their manuscript after peer re­view to the ArX­iv or oth­er pre­print serv­ers. However, we do ask au­thors that upon pub­lic­a­tion they add a DOI link to the pre­print archive’s ver­sion, dir­ect­ing pro­spect­ive read­ers to the pub­lished art­icle on the journ­al’s web site. The ref­er­eed, copy­ed­ited and pub­lished ver­sion of the art­icle is, after all, the fi­nal “ver­sion of re­cord.”

Many in­sti­tu­tions now re­quire or en­cour­age their re­search­ers to de­pos­it pub­lished art­icles in their in­sti­tu­tion­al re­pos­it­or­ies. MSP co­oper­ates with this re­quire­ment by send­ing au­thors or lib­rar­i­ans, upon de­mand, a ver­sion of the pub­lished file suit­able for the pur­pose. We re­quest that you use the fi­nal pub­lished ver­sion and not a pre­print or post­print ver­sion, which are not con­sidered defin­it­ive.