Copyrights & DOI Number
Copyrights and reuse condition
The copyright of all content in Cytologia is held by the JMS. All contents are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (BY-NC-SA 4.0). For commercial use, please ask the JMS for permission.
A Note on Digital Object Identifiers (DOI)
Digital Object Identifiers are provided for all articles in all publically available issues of Cytologia, from the inaugural issue onwards.
You can view the covers of all archived issues of Cytologia by clicking on the ‘Archive 2’ link on the JMS homepage. Click a cover to view an enlarged version. Above this enlarged version you will see three links: ‘On the Cover’, ‘Content’, and ‘Archive’. Click on ‘Archive’ to access the contents page for the relevant Cytologia issue on the J-STAGE website.
This page will give the titles of each paper in the issue. Click on the relevant title to display the abstract and additional information. The yellow banner at the top of the article title indicates the relevant volume and issue of Cytologia, and the page numbers of the paper. The relevant URL, including the DOI, is shown to the left below the yellow banner.
For example, in the URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1508/Cytologia.76.111, 10.1508 indicates the unique DOI code for Cytologia, while 76.111 indicates that the relevant paper is on page 111 of volume 76 of Cytologia. The DOI for this paper will therefore be as follows: DOI: 10.1508/Cytologia.76.111
Similarly, page 119 of volume 76 of Cytologia can be accessed via the following URL, which will allow the reader to access the required paper via the J-STAGE website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1508/Cytologia.76.119
Please note that although DOI codes are generated automatically, the DOI code can only be used to access the relevant paper on the internet around 6–12 months after the relevant volume has been published.
Requests for the Transfer of Copyright on Previously Published Articles in “Cytologia: International Journal of Cytogenetics and Cell Biology”
The JMS is promoting a digital archive of “Cytologia” for articles published from 1929 to 1997. This archive includes all previously published materials and will be made freely accessible to the public via the internet with no charges or restrictions. To move forward with this project, the society needs to obtain approvals from copyright holders (Japanese Copyright Law Articles 21–28).
With regard to articles published in Cytologia for which ownership of the copyright is unclear, the society would like to obtain the reproduction rights (Japanese Copyright Law Article 21) and the public transmission rights (Japanese Copyright Law Article 23) from the copyright holders, enabling these electronic archives to be made public so that they are available for research purposes. Copyright holders who do not wish to grant reproduction and public transmission rights to the society are requested to contact the society at the address below before July 31, 2014. In cases whereby the society is not contacted, processing will be carried out as though permission has been granted.
Please note that the copyright transfer we are requesting is for the sole purpose of making Cytologia electronically available to the public. Thus, authors may use the subject materials without permission for their own research purposes.
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