Prior to submission to an IFAC event
Authors may share their article in the following ways:
- On the author’s personal website or their institution website.
- On institutional or funder websites if required.
- On arXiv.org.
- In the author’s own classroom use.
This does not count as a prior publication.
Upon submission to an IFAC event
Authors may share or post their submitted version of the article (also known as the pre-print) in the following ways:
- On the authors personal website or their institution website.
- On institutional or funder websites if required.
- On arXiv.org.
- For the author’s own classroom use.
The following text should be included on the first page of the posted article: “This work has been submitted to IFAC for possible publication”.
Upon acceptance to an IFAC event
If an author previously posted their submitted version of the article in any of the following locations, they can replace the submitted version with the accepted version.
- Authors personal website or their institution website.
- Institutional or funder websites.
- arXiv.org.
The following text should be included on the first page of the posted article: “© 20XX the authors. This work has been accepted to IFAC for publication under a Creative Commons Licence CC-BY-NC-ND”.
When the article is published, the posted version should be updated with a full citation to the original IFAC-PapersOnline publication, including DOI.
Final published article
The authors may share the final published article on public non-commercial sites in the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Additionally, the authors may use the article in a subsequent compilation of their work, or extend it to book length form, or include it in a thesis or dissertation, or otherwise to use or re-use portions or excerpts in other works, for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.
All copies of the article should link to the original publication in IFAC PapersOnline via its DOI and have a copyright statement and a reference to the CC-BY-NC-ND license.
Except for such uses, IFAC has the exclusive right to make or sub-license commercial use.
