Sharing versions of journal articles
If you’ve published in a Taylor & Francis or Routledge journal, there are many ways that you can share the different versions of your article with your contacts.
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Sharing different versions of your article
From the manuscript you first submit to a journal, through peer review and revisions, to the final article that’s published on the website, there can be several versions of your paper. Find out how these different versions are defined and how you can share them.
What is it?
This version, sometimes called a “preprint”, is your paper before you submitted it to a journal for peer review.
The AOM is defined by the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) as:
“Any version of a journal article that is considered by the author to be of sufficient quality to be submitted for formal peer review.”
How can I share it?
You can share your AOM as much as you like, including via social media, on a scholarly collaboration network, your own personal website, or on a preprint server intended for non-commercial use (for example arXiv, bioRxiv, SocArXiv, etc.).
Posting on a preprint server before you submit to a journal is not considered to be duplicate publication and this will not jeopardize consideration for publication in a Taylor & Francis or Routledge journal.
If you do post your AOM anywhere, we recommend that, after it’s been published in a journal, you add a link to the final version on Taylor & Francis Online:
“This is an original manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in [JOURNAL TITLE] on [date of publication], available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/[Article DOI].”
What is it?
This is the version of your manuscript after it’s been through peer review, including any improvements resulting from that process, and has been accepted by the journal’s editor.
When you receive the acceptance email from the Editorial Office, keep a copy of your AM for any future posting.
NISO definition: “The version of a journal article that has been accepted for publication in a journal.”
How can I share it?
As a Taylor & Francis author, you can post your Accepted Manuscript (AM) on your personal website at any point after publication of your article (this includes posting to Facebook, Google groups, and LinkedIn, plus linking from Twitter).
Embargoes usually apply if you are posting the AM to an institutional or subject repository, or to a scholarly collaboration network such as ResearchGate. (Embargo periods for all our journals are listed in the open access cost finder.)
To encourage citation of your work (and to help you measure its impact with article metrics), we recommend that you insert a link from your posted AM to the published article on Taylor & Francis Online with the following text:
“This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in [JOURNAL TITLE] on [date of publication], available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/[Article DOI].”
What is it?
This is the final, definitive, citable version of your paper, which has been copyedited, typeset, had metadata applied, and has been allocated a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
For Taylor & Francis and Routledge journals, this is the version published on Taylor & Francis Online.
NISO definition: “A fixed version of a journal article that has been made available by any organization that acts as a publisher by formally and exclusively declaring the article ‘published‘.”
How can I share it?
If you’ve chosen to publish your article open access there are no restrictions on how or where you share your article’s VOR.
If your article isn’t open access, the VOR can be shared using your 50 free eprints and you can also use the sharing link function of our eReader.
You can access and print the PDF of your VOR direct from the authored works section of your account on Taylor & Francis Online. These printed copies can be used at conferences, meetings, and in teaching.
Even when you share your AOM or AM, we recommend that you also include a link to the VOR using its Digital Object Identifier (DOI). This means that downloads, Altmetric data, and citations can be tracked and collated – data you can then use to assess the impact of your work.
