Acceptance & Publication
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Before acceptance and transfer to our publishers, manuscripts will be checked for appropriate formatting and image processing, and for plagiarism. We cannot proceed to acceptance until data are available in public databases when required.
Speed of publication
Life Science Alliance aims for rapid publication of papers, usually within 15 to 20 working days. Life Science Alliance's articles are freely accessible to all and are deposited immediately upon publication to the Open Access repository PubMed Central/Europe PubMed Central. Life Science Alliance is a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) and is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
Proofs
Authors will be sent an e-mail with a link to access and annotate their proof. It is the authors’ responsibility to check that the final proof is accurate. In the interests of speed, corrections should be submitted within 24 hours. If you have any trouble submitting corrections through the system, please contact the production office immediately. Essential changes of an extensive nature may be made only by insertion of a ‘Note added in proof’, and only with the approval of the Editors. Excessive alterations may delay publication of the article.
Press Embargo
When discussing unpublished data (including data in accepted papers not yet published) with the press, authors should take care not to break Life Science Alliance embargo policy.
Fee, License, Copyright
The publication fee is $3500 USD. Authors experiencing financial hardship, such as temporary loss of funding, should inform LSA's Finance Department by emailing payments@Life-Science-Alliance.org after submitting their manuscript. Responses are usually made within 5 business days. Inability to pay the full fee will not influence a submission's outcome. Authors should not communicate with journal editors on financial issues: publication decisions are based solely on editorial criteria, and information concerning financial circumstances is not disclosed to journal editors or reviewers. Financial requests made after acceptance of a paper cannot be considered.
We will waive or discount charges for corresponding authors working in countries covered by the Research4Life Initiative.
Life Science Alliance's articles are freely accessible to all and are deposited immediately upon publication to the Open Access repository PubMed Central/Europe PubMed Central.
Copyright on all articles published by Life Science Alliance is retained by the author(s).
Life Science Alliance publishes articles under the Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 4.0 License. This license permits users to access, download, copy, display and redistribute the journal's articles, as well as adapt, translate, text- and data-mine the content.
Life Science Alliance supports unrestricted sharing of data to advance science. Consequently, any file associated with an article that is labeled as “Source Data”, “Dataset", or "Resource" is made available by the authors under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication. The authors will not exert any Copyright and Related Rights as defined therein. We encourage attribution where this is warranted by good scholarly practice.
