[GDNET] Second Message: New Publication Agreement for the GD Proceedings

[Beppe Liotta]

Dear Graph Drawers,

I am re-sending the message, because of formatting problems in some 
e-mail readers.

Best regards,
Giuseppe Liotta

------New Publication Agreement for the GD Proceedings----

Dear Graph Drawers,

We are pleased to announce that the Steering Committee of the 
International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization and 
Springer have entered into a new agreement about the publication of the 
conference proceedings. The agreement will allow the members of the GD 
community to freely access all the GD proceedings on a website that will 
be set up soon. In addition, Springer will make freely available to 
anyone all the conference proceedings four years after their publication.

Some details are below. In what follows, "GD community" means any 
registered users of GDNET plus other users authorized by the GD Steering 
Committee.

Free Access

- The content of the past GD proceedings published in LNCS, going back 
to GD 1994, and future proceedings will be made accessible to GD 
Community members via the GD Website.

- After four years upon publication of a proceedings volume, Springer 
shall make the content of this proceedings volume freely accessible to 
anyone. In addition, within the next three months Springer will make 
freely accessible to anyone the content of the GD proceedings which were 
published at least four years ago.

Usage Rights and Eprints

- Authors retain the right to use his/her contribution for his/her 
further scientific career by including the final published paper in 
his/her dissertation or doctoral thesis, provided acknowledgment is 
given to the original source of publication. Authors also retain the 
right to use, without having to ask, parts of the contribution (e.g. 
illustrations, tables, paragraphs, etc.) for inclusion in future work, 
and to publish a substantially revised version presenting new content 
elsewhere, provided that the original contribution is cited properly.

-  Authors may self-archive and make available an author-created version 
of his/her own contribution on his/her own Website and on his/her 
employer's Website, including his/her final version (as submitted to the 
conference or workshop after the reviewing process). The author or the 
GD Steering Committee may archive and make available the same on 
non-commercial archival repositories such as ArXiv/CoRR.

Term of the Agreement and Termination

- The agreement will remain in force until December 31, 2019. For all GD 
proceedings published under this new agreement the free accessibility is 
perpetual and irrevocable. The GD proceedings volumes published under 
this agreement begin retroactively with the GD 2014 proceedings (LNCS 
8871) and are expected to include also the GD 2015 through GD 2019 
proceedings.


Best regards,
Beppe Liotta

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On behalf of the GD Steering Committee