The VBN Team

Publisher embargo periods

Below you find links to some of the major publisher's policies for self-archiving of accepted manuscripts in an institutional repository as VBN, as well as their embargo periods.

  • Elsevier (embargo periods vary from 6-36 months depending on the journal)
  • Wiley (embargo periods vary between 12-24 months depending on the journal)
  • Oxford University Press (embargo periods vary between 12-24 months depending on the journal)
  • Cambridge University Press (embargo periods vary between 0-6 months depending the journal)
  • Taylor & Francis (embargo periods vary between 0-18 months depending on the journal)
  • Springer (embargo period is 12 months for journal articles as well as for articles in proceedings)
  • Palgrave MacMillan (embargo period is 12 months)
  • DeGruyter (Publisher version can be self-archived after an embargo period of 12 months)
  • ACM (No embargo period)
  • IEEE (No embargo period)
  • Emerald (No embargo period)
  • Sage (No embargo period)

Please be aware that the publishers may require that a set phrase be inserted on the accepted manuscripts.