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EPJ Data Science's open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience. 

Speed of publication

EPJ Data Science offers a fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically (articles are distributed in PDF form, which is automatically generated from the submitted files). Articles will be published with their final citation after acceptance, in both fully browsable web form, and as a formatted PDF; the article will then be available through EPJ Data Science and SpringerOpen.

Flexibility

Online publication in EPJ Data Science gives you the opportunity to publish large datasets, large numbers of color illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other articles).

Promotion and press coverage

Articles published in EPJ Data Science are included in article alerts and regular email updates. 
In addition, articles published in EPJ Data Science may be promoted by press releases to the general or scientific press. These activities increase the exposure and number of accesses for articles published in EPJ Data Science. 

Copyright

Authors of articles published in EPJ Data Science retain the copyright of their articles and are free to reproduce and disseminate their work. For further information, see our guide to licensing, copyright and author rights.

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All articles published by the EPJ Data Science are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Further information about open access can be found here. 

As authors of articles published in the EPJ Data Science you are the copyright holders of your article and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate your article, according to the license terms. 

For those of you who are US government employees or are prevented from being copyright holders for similar reasons, SpringerOpen can accommodate non-standard copyright lines. Please contact us if further information is needed.

Open access publishing is not without costs. EPJ Data Science therefore levies an article-processing charge of £1240.00/$1790.00/€1490.00 for each article accepted for publication, plus VAT or local taxes where applicable.

If the corresponding author's institution participates in our open access membership program, some or all of the publication cost may be covered (more details available on the membership page). We routinely waive charges for authors from low-income countries. For other countries, article-processing charge waivers or discounts are granted on a case-by-case basis to authors with insufficient funds. Authors, including those from underfunded disciplines, can request a waiver or discount during the submission process. For further details, see our article-processing charge page.

SpringerOpen provides a free open access funding support service to help authors discover and apply for article processing charge funding. Visit our OA funding and policy support page to view our list of research funders and institutions that provide funding for APCs, and to learn more about our email support service.

For more information on APCs please see our Journal Pricing FAQs

For information about the APC applicable for articles accepted for publication next year, please see our journal lists.

The full text of all articles is deposited in digital archives around the world to guarantee long-term digital preservation. You can also access all articles published by SpringerOpen on SpringerLink. 

EPJ Data Science is indexed in the following services:

• Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
• Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
• SCOPUS
• Google Scholar
• Current Contents/Engineering, Computing and Technology
• DOAJ
• EBSCO
• EI Compendex
• SCImago
• UGC-CARE List (India)
• Dimensions
• Gale
• WTI AG
• Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) - GoOA
• Naver
• DBLP
• CNKI
• TD Net Discovery Service
• OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service 
• ProQuest
• INSPEC
• Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
• CNPIEC
• CLOCKSS
• Portico
• Baidu
• Wanfang

All manuscripts submitted to EPJ Data Science should adhere to SpringerOpen's editorial policies.

Once your article is accepted, it will be processed by production and published shortly afterwards. In some cases, articles may be held for a short period of time prior to publication. If you have any concerns or particular requirements please contact the Journal.

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Articles in EPJ Data Science  should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. Because articles are not printed, they do not have page numbers; instead, they are given a unique article number.

Article citations follow this format:

Authors: Title. EPJ Data Sci [year], [volume number]:[article number].

e.g. Roberts LD, Hassall DG, Winegar DA, Haselden JN, Nicholls AW, Griffin JL: Increased hepatic oxidative metabolism distinguishes the action of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor delta from Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor gamma in the Ob/Ob mouse. EPJ Data Sci 2009, 1:115.

refers to article 115 from Volume 1 of the journal.

Authors who wish to appeal a rejection or make a complaint should follow the procedure outlined in the BMC Editorial Policies.