Orclever Conference Abstracts is a fully open-access, green + gold journal. Authors retain copyright, articles are licensed CC BY 4.0, and authors are free to self-archive any version of their article in any repository at any time — without embargo, without fee, and without asking permission.

Quick summary (DOAJ-style)

• Can authors deposit the submitted version (preprint)?  Yes.
• Can authors deposit the accepted version (postprint / AAM)?  Yes.
• Can authors deposit the published version (version of record / VOR)?  Yes.
• Embargo?  None, for any version.
• Can authors deposit in any repository?  Yes — personal, institutional, subject, preprint, commercial or non-commercial.
• Required licence on deposit?  CC BY 4.0 (same as the published article).
• Required attribution?  Cite the journal and DOI.

Which versions may be self-archived

All three article versions are free to self-archive:

• Preprint (submitted version) — the manuscript as originally submitted, before peer review. May be posted anywhere, at any time, including before submission, during review, and after the article is published.
• Postprint (accepted manuscript, AAM) — the author-prepared text after peer review but before typesetting. May be deposited in any repository immediately upon acceptance.
• Published version (version of record, VOR) — the final typeset PDF as published by Orclever Conference Abstracts. May be deposited in any repository immediately upon publication.

Where articles may be self-archived

There is no restricted list. Authors may deposit any version in any repository, including (but not limited to):

• Preprint servers: arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, SSRN, engrXiv, OSF Preprints, Preprints.org.
• Institutional repositories run by the author's university, research institute, or funder.
• Subject repositories — PubMed Central, RePEc, CogPrints, PhilPapers, HAL (in France), LILACS, DergiPark, etc.
• General-purpose research repositories — Zenodo, Figshare, Dryad, OSF.
• Academic social networks — ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Mendeley.
• Personal and institutional websites, blogs, lab pages, and teaching materials.
• Orclever-run archives — every published article is additionally preserved in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine and on Orclever's own platform-level off-site backups. Authors do not need to do anything for this; it happens automatically.

Embargo

There is no embargo period. All three versions (preprint, postprint, and version of record) may be deposited immediately — before peer review, upon acceptance, or upon publication.

Licensing & reuse on deposited copies

Every article published in Orclever Conference Abstracts is licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Because CC BY 4.0 is irrevocable, any self-archived copy carries the same licence — authors therefore never lose the right to share their own work.

If depositing in a repository that asks for a licence declaration, authors should state “CC BY 4.0” (or, equivalently, “Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International”).

Required attribution on deposits

Any self-archived copy must include a citation to the published version, containing at minimum:

• the author(s),
• the article title,
• the journal name (Orclever Conference Abstracts),
• year, volume, issue (or article number), page range,
• the article's DOI (linked as https://doi.org/{DOI}), and
• a link to the version of record on https://www.orclever.com/journals/oca/article/{id}.

Article landing pages provide one-click citation export in BibTeX, RIS, and plain-text formats, suitable for pasting into the repository deposit form.

Authors depositing in funder-mandated repositories

The CC BY 4.0 licence and “no embargo” terms of Orclever Conference Abstracts satisfy the open-access mandates of, among others:

• Plan S / cOAlition S (European funders, Wellcome, etc.) — CC BY required, no embargo, VOR deposit allowed. ✓
• NIH Public Access Policy — postprint or VOR deposit in PMC. ✓
• European Commission (Horizon Europe) — immediate open access, CC BY. ✓
• UKRI open-access policy — CC BY required, zero embargo. ✓
• TÜBİTAK Open Science Policy (Turkey) — CC BY 4.0 accepted, deposit in Aperta or institutional repository. ✓

Preprint DOI and versioning

If an author posts the preprint on a service that issues a preprint DOI (e.g. bioRxiv, arXiv, SSRN, Zenodo), that DOI should be recorded in the submission system so it can be linked to the final published DOI via Crossref's is-preprint-of relationship. This creates a permanent, discoverable trail between preprint and VOR.

Sherpa Romeo record

The journal is being registered with Sherpa Romeo to make these self-archiving terms machine-discoverable by institutional repositories, funder tools (FACT, etc.), and DOAJ. Until the Sherpa Romeo record is published, this page is the authoritative statement of the policy.

Contact

Questions about self-archiving, funder compliance, or specific repositories can be sent to the editorial office at editorial@orclever.com.

This repository (self-archiving) policy applies to all articles published in Orclever Conference Abstracts. Policy URL: https://www.orclever.com/journals/oca/repository-policy