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Published on 28 June 2012

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What is a RSS feed

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a XML format dedicated to website syndication. RSS allows readers to get new titles delivered directly to their desktops, using either the Internet browser or a RSS Reader.

How to use RSS feeds

  • If your Internet browser includes a RSS Reader (as Mozilla Firefox, Opera or Safari), your browser will automatically detect web pages that offer RSS feeds.
    For more details, please see the corresponding documention on your favorite browser websites.

  • In general, you will need a RSS Reader (also called News Reader). Some News Readers are web-based or email-based options, others are stand-alone applications. To subscribe a RSS feed is really easy, either by copying the URL and pasting it in your News Reader, or dragging the URL of the RSS feed into the News Reader.

How to get a News Reader

There are many News Readers available. You may choose along the following ones:

Web and mail based: For Windows: For Mac: For Linux:

or refer to list of readers:

Terms of use

The EDP Sciences journals' RSS feeds are devoted to private studies, scholarship or research, without any commercial benefit. Individuals can browse, search, download, copy and print the articles within fair use limits.

EDP Sciences reserves the right to modify or stop this service. In particular, in the case of unfair use. The benefit of the entire community relies on your fair use.

Please remember that EDP Sciences' electronic journals and their contents are subject to copyright, database protection, and other rights of the publisher (EDP Sciences) under the laws of France and the country of use.

Policy on Publishing Integrity

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Published on 25 May 2012

The EPJ journals are committed to the highest standards of publishing integrity and academic honesty. We recognize the important role we play as publishers of scientific record. All published articles are subjected to rigorous peer review. Authors are expected to pursue objectivity and rigour in all aspects of their work. Referees are requested to provide unbiased and constructive comments aimed, whenever possible, at improving the work.

Incidents of potential misconduct should be brought to the attention of the relevant editorial office or Editor-in-Chief, and will be handled with care and deliberation in accordance with the guidelines of the Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE).

The following advice cover some areas where unethical behaviour could potentially arise.

Competing interests statements

Editors, authors and referees should declare declare potentially competing interests of a professional or personal nature that might interfere (or be perceived as interfering) with an objective presentation, interpretation or judgement of a submitted paper.

Authorship

Corresponding authors are requested to ensure that all contributors to the work are listed as authors and are aware of the contents of the article, from submission through publication.

Plagiarism/self-plagiarism/duplicate submissions

Publishing an article that in part or fully reproduces previously published work is an act of misconduct, whether it involves one's own or other people’s work. Authors must always reference all relevant sources and clearly identify if they are re-using text or materials previously published by themselves or others. Permission should be sought and disclosed whenever other people’s materials are used. It is highly unethical to submit the same or substantially similar work simultaneously to more than one journal.

Falsification/fabrication of data

Reporting manipulated or fabricated research data is considered the most extreme case of misconduct in scientific publishing.

EPJ reserves the right not to work with authors who are abusive to staff, referees and/or editors.

EPJ follows the Policies on Publishing Integrity of its co-publishers:
Springer, EDPS, and SIF. These publishers are all participating members of the non-profit international Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE). All journals in the EPJ family, and the Editors-in-Chief of the journals, are also registered members of COPE.

We encourage journal editors, reviewers, and authors to use the following documents for reference.

Resources

The Springer Policy on Publishing Integrity

EDP Sciences Publishing Policies & Ethics

The Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE)

FAQ

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Published on 25 May 2012

Language:

Only articles written in English are accepted for submission. The language must be sufficiently clear to allow for the effortless understanding of the scientific content, otherwise the manuscript will not be considered further by the editorial board. If an author repeatedly submits the same manuscript without significant improvement in the basic clarity and readability of the presentation, the manuscript may be definitively rejected by the Editorial Board on these grounds. Language polishing of an already accepted paper is provided by the journal as part of its basic services.

Contact in case of technical problems/questions:

In the pull-down menus of the individual EPJ section on the main portal page you will find the contact details for the editorial and production offices.

Contact concerning the editorial policy or to propose a topical issue:

Please contact the respective Editorial Office with a detailed proposal. For contact details, please click on "Editorial Boards" in the pull-down menu of the corresponding EPJ section on the main portal page.

Open Access:

Please consult this page.

Permission requests:

A) Authors of an EPJ article (= an article published in one of the journals: The European Physical Journal A,B,C,D,E,ST) can re-use material from their own article(s) free of charge provided that:

A.1) Full credit (journal title, volume, year of publication, page, article title, name(s) of author(s), original copyright notice) is given to the publication in which the material was originally published by adding: With kind permission of The European Physical Journal (EPJ).

A.2) If the material in question is cited from another source, authorization from and reference to that source are required.

B) More generally, authors requesting permission to re-use material from an EPJ article in form of tables and illustrations of articles can do so free of charge, provided that:

B.1) No more than three tables/figures of any given article are concerned.

B.2) The work in which this material is re-used is eventually published by one of the Scientific, Technical and Medical publishers listed on http://www.stm-assoc.org/.

B.3) Full credit (journal title, volume, year of publication, page, article title, name(s) of author(s), original copyright notice) is given to the publication in which the material was originally published by adding: With kind permission of The European Physical Journal (EPJ).

B.4) Permission is also obtained from theauthor(s) of the material to be re-used.

B.5) If the material in question is cited from another source, authorization from and reference to that source are required.

In all cases, these free permissions:

  • include the useof the material in question in any electronic form,
  • are limited to non-exclusive rights throughout the world,
  • and do not affect any rights the EPJ publishers might have to charge for reproduction of their copyrighted material in the future.

For all cases that are not covered by A or B please send your inquiry directly to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Preprint servers / ArXiv

In the case of non-open access articles, for which the copyright must be transferred to the publishers, the EPJ copyright transfer statement explicitly states that a pre-print (the author’s version of the article before peer-review) can be freely posted on institutional repositories. For articles to be published in EPJ this explicitly includes the relevant preprint servers, in particular ArXiv (arxiv.org).

Good scientific practice in publishing:

EPJ is committed to safeguarding good scientific practice in publishing at all levels:

Involvement of co-authors in the submission process

It is understood that every author listed as co-author of a paper submitted to any of the EPJ journals has reviewed the final draft of the full manuscript and endorses his/her responsibility for the entire work. If submitted by a corresponding author it is understood that he/she can provide evidence that the final version of the manuscript as submitted to the journal has been shown to all authors listed at the beginning of the article. If submitted by a corresponding author on behalf of a larger collaboration, it is understood that this is done following the rules of publishing as applied by this collaboration and in line with the first sentence of this paragraph.

After submission of the signed copyright transfer statement by the corresponding author, changes of authorship or in the order of authors listed will not be accepted by the publishers.

Scientists other than the corresponding author and those listed as co-authors on a paper submitted to or published in this journal who become aware of their possibly unknowing involvement in the paper publication procedure should contact the corresponding editorial office immediately.

Parallel submissions

It is understood that a paper submitted to a given EPJ journal is not simultaneously under consideration by a different journal (even within the EPJ range of journals). Should a paper turn out to have been submitted to other journals concurrently, this paper will be rejected categorically and immediately, and the editorial office(s) of the other journal(s) will be informed about this case. Further the management of the home institution of the authors concerned may be informed as well.

The authors concerned will not be allowed to publish in the journal concerned for two years.

Parallel publications

Should a paper turn out to have been published in essentially the same form in a journal other than the EPJ journal for which it has been submitted and accepted, the authors involved will no longer be allowed to publish in that EPJ journal. Both the editorial office(s) of the other journal(s) and the management of the home institutions of the authors concerned will be informed.

Concluding remarks

Major learned societies in the physical sciences worldwide offer further, more detailed statements regarding good scientific practice in research and publishing on their homepages. EPJ does not endorse any particular statement but reserves the right to refer to and use such documents at its discretion when handling cases not covered by the statements made above.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Please consult this page.

Author contribution statements in EPJA, B, D, E and Plus

In an Author Contribution Statement at the end of the paper (after the Acknowledgments) authors can precise how each author contributed to the different parts of the work. Please make sure that you insert this statement before the paper enters the production phase.

Examples of author contribution statements

Research data policy

EPJ strongly encourages that all datasets on which the conclusions of the paper rely should be available to readers. We encourage authors to ensure that their datasets are either deposited in publicly available repositories (where available and appropriate) or presented in the main manuscript or additional supporting files whenever possible. For further information on recommended repositories please see List of Repositories

Datasets that are assigned digital object identifiers (DOIs) by a data repository may be cited in the reference list. Data citations should include the minimum information recommended by DataCite: authors, title, publisher (repository name), identifier.

Where a widely established research community expectation for data archiving in public repositories exists, submission to a community-endorsed, public repository is mandatory. Persistent identifiers (such as DOIs and accession numbers) for relevant datasets must be provided in the paper.

For more information see Research Data Policy Frequently Asked Questions. For EPJ Research Data Policy Type 2 applies.

Data availability

EPJ encourages authors to provide a statement of Data availability in their article. Data availability statements should include information on where data supporting the results reported in the article can be found, including, where applicable, hyperlinks to publicly archived datasets analysed or generated during the study. Data availability statements can also indicate whether data are available on request from the authors and where no data are available, if appropriate.

Data Availability statements can take one of the following forms (or a combination of more than one if required for multiple datasets):

  1. The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available in the [NAME] repository, [PERSISTENT WEB LINK TO DATASETS]
  2. The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are not publicly available due [REASON WHY DATA ARE NOT PUBLIC] but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
  3. The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
  4. Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.
  5. All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this published article [and its supplementary information files].

More examples of template data availability statements, which include examples of openly available and restricted access datasets, are available here

Springer Nature provides a research data policy support service for authors and editors, which provides advice on research data policy compliance and on finding research data repositories. It is independent of the journal editorial office and does not advise on specific manuscripts.

Open Access

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Published on 22 May 2012

Authors retain the copyright to their work - licensing is under the Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY 4.0 - and are free to reproduce and re-distribute it without restrictions, as long as the original work is correctly cited.

1. EPJ journals following Springer open access policies

1.1. Hybrid journals (copublished with EDP Sciences and Società Italiana di Fisica) with article publication charges

European Physical Journal A (EPJ A)
European Physical Journal B (EPJ B)
European Physical Journal D (EPJ D)
European Physical Journal E (EPJ E)
European Physical Journal Special Topics (EPJ ST)
European Physical Journal H (EPJ H)
European Physical Journal Plus (EPJ Plus)
La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento (RNC)

1.1.1 Open Access (OA) Agreements: Many institutions cover researchers’ OA publishing costs (known as article processing charges, or APCs) as part of OA agreements with Springer Nature.

If the CORRESPONDING author is affiliated to an institute that has an Open Access agreement with Springer, the OA publication - if verified - is paid by the agreement partner. All OA agreements are listed with more details here. Eligibility will be automatically verified when the corresponding author is requested to complete the relevant affiliation information after acceptance of the paper during the production process. Corresponding authors not affiliated to institutes with Open Access Agreements are redirected to proceed with “Please select your publishing model” and have to decide between paying the current Open Access fee (for details see "Open Access Fee and Funding" on the journal website and 1.1.2 Open Choice Programme) or choosing the subscription option without any publication charges (see 1.1.4 Subscription Option).

1.1.2 Open Choice Programme: If the Open Access fee is not covered by an Open Access (OA) Agreement, corresponding authors who want to publish Open Access can order Open Choice and will receive an invoice for the current Open Access fee (for details see "Open Access Fee and Funding" on the individual journal websites and Open Choice Programme)

1.1.3 Further information for authors seeking support in funding open access publication charges can be found here.

1.1.4 Subscription Option: Authors not affiliated to an institute with an Open Access (OA) Agreement who do not want to publish and pay for Open Access, can choose the subscription option without any publication charges when selecting the publishing model during the publishing process.

1.2. Fully sponsored OA journal

European Physical Journal C (EPJ C) funded by SCOAP3.

1.3. Fully OA journals with article publication charges

EPJ Data Science (EPJ DS)

EPJ Quantum Technology (EPJ QT)

EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation (EPJ TI)

2. Journals following EDP Sciences open access policies

2.1 Hybrid journal with article publication charges

European Physical Journal Applied Physics (EPJ AP)

2.1.1. Transformative Read and Publish agreements

2.2. Fully OA journals with article publication charges

EPJ Photovoltaics (EPJ PV)

EPJ Applied Metamaterials (EPJ AM)

EPJ Nuclear Sciences & Technologies (EPJ N)

EPJ Web of Conferences (EPJ WoC)

Editors-in-Chief
E. Dudas, M. Elsing, F. Forti, J. Monroe, D.J. Schwarz and G. Zanderighi

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