ELR Open Access
Scholarship should be accessible to readers without transferring publication costs to authors.
ELR is developed as an independent open-access scholarly publishing project. Access to the published scholarly record should not depend on an individual reader's institutional subscription.
Open Access
Explorations in Linguistic Review is developed as an open-access scholarly publication. Readers should be able to access the journal's published scholarly content online without an individual subscription or paywall imposed by ELR.
Open access is understood by the journal as part of its scholarly mission: research should be available for reading, teaching, discussion, verification, and further academic development subject to the licence and rights attached to the individual publication.
Author Rights
ELR is designed to preserve a clear relationship between scholars and the intellectual work they contribute. Authorship, attribution, and the scholarly responsibility associated with a publication remain attached to the relevant author or authors.
Authors remain responsible for ensuring that they have the legal and scholarly authority to submit the material and to permit its publication.
Publication Licence
The licence applicable to an ELR publication should be stated clearly on the article page, publication file, or other formal publication record.
Readers and other users should consult that licence when determining whether a work may be copied, shared, adapted, translated, reproduced, or reused for another purpose.
Author-Facing Publication Charges
One of ELR's founding objectives is to reduce financial barriers to participation in international scholarly communication, particularly for students, early-career researchers, independent scholars, and researchers working in environments with limited publication funding.
Editorial assessment and peer-review decisions must not depend on an author's ability to pay a publication fee.
Third-Party Material
Authors are responsible for identifying material in their submissions for which they do not hold the relevant rights. This may include photographs, reproductions, diagrams, maps, corpus material, archival images, extensive quotations, published tables, facsimiles, manuscript images, or other protected content.
Where permission is required, authors should obtain the necessary authorisation before final publication and should retain documentation where appropriate.
A third-party item may be subject to rights or restrictions different from those that apply to the ELR article as a whole. Such differences should be indicated clearly where necessary.
Reuse and Permissions
Material published by ELR may be reused to the extent permitted by the licence displayed with the publication and by applicable law.
Appropriate scholarly attribution should be maintained whenever ELR material is quoted, reproduced, redistributed, translated, adapted, or otherwise reused.
Where a proposed use is not clearly authorised by the publication licence, or where the material contains separately protected third-party content, the user should obtain permission from the appropriate rights holder.
Repositories and Scholarly Circulation
ELR supports the responsible scholarly circulation of research through institutional repositories, disciplinary repositories, personal academic webpages, working-paper collections, and other legitimate scholarly channels where such circulation is consistent with the applicable publication licence.
Where possible, deposited versions should provide a citation and link to the formal ELR publication so that readers can identify the version of record.
Earlier working-paper or preprint versions do not need to be removed merely because a related work has subsequently been published by ELR, provided that the relationship between versions is represented accurately.
Translation and Adaptation
Translation can play an important role in enabling scholarship to move between linguistic communities. At the same time, a translation is a scholarly and rights-sensitive transformation of the source text.
A person wishing to translate or substantially adapt an ELR publication should first consult the licence attached to that work. Where the licence does not itself authorise the proposed use, additional permission may be required.
A translation should identify the original publication and should not be presented as though it were the original text or an authorised version unless such authorisation has in fact been granted.
Theoretical Forum: Attribution of Individual Contributions
The ELR Theoretical Forum（理论大家谈）may bring together several concise scholarly contributions within one formally published Forum article or thematic feature.
Theoretical Forum · 理论大家谈
A shared publication does not mean shared ownership of every idea.
Each contribution within a Theoretical Forum remains explicitly attributed to the scholar or scholars responsible for that contribution. Compilation into a common publication does not erase the authorship, attribution, or intellectual provenance of the individual viewpoint.
Readers citing a particular contribution should identify the relevant contributor wherever the publication structure makes such attribution possible, in addition to citing the Forum publication itself as appropriate.
The editorial organisation of multiple perspectives is intended to create a durable scholarly conversation while preserving the academic identity of each individual contribution.
Chinese-Language Articles and English Academic Commentary
Within designated ELR publication programmes, particularly work involving excavated texts, palaeography, and historical Chinese, a Chinese-language full article may be accompanied by an English academic commentary.
The Chinese article and English commentary should be treated as intellectually identifiable scholarly components. Where the commentary has a different author from the principal article, its authorship and responsibility should be stated separately.
Translation, quotation, and reuse of either component remain subject to the rights and licence information attached to the relevant publication.
Permission Requests and Rights Enquiries
Questions concerning reuse, permissions, licences, publication rights, third-party material, repository deposit, translation, or another rights-related matter may be sent to the ELR editorial office.
Explorations in Linguistic Review
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