Information for Publishers

Cardinal Scholar encourages publishers to give a green light to author self-archiving of pre-prints and post-prints (though not necessarily via the publisher's PDF). Please see the Directory of Journals' Policies on Author Self-Archiving, the FOS policy statements by learned societies and professional associations, and "The Green Road to Open Access: A Leveraged Transition".

Cardinal Scholar encourages the deposit of both pre-print and post-print scholarly works. We ask our faculty to use the SPARC Author Addendum, which is explained and offered for download from http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/addendum.html, to their publication agreement. The system we use to preserve and offer access to Ball State University's Intellectual Capital includes an "embargo" feature that allows for the work to be removed from view for a specified time. This period of time will correspond to the terms of your publication agreement.

If in any case, you feel that your rights have been infringed upon, please contact us and we will do everything we can to address your concerns.

Cardinal Scholar encourages publishers to complete the SHERPA/ROMEO webform describing their self-archiving policy for submission to the Romeo publishers directory and to email their journals list (with ISSNs and URLs) to Maria at http://romeo.eprints.org/corrections.php for inclusion in the Romeo journals directory.