Self-Archiving and Institutional Repository Policy with UT Press

A pre-print is defined as the un-refereed, pre-copyedited, author-version of an article submitted for publication.

A post-print is defined as the version of an article following peer review that contains author revisions but that has not been copyedited by the University of Texas Press journal that will publish the article.

Information & Culture authors retain the right to make pre-print and post-print versions of their article available on their personal website, institutional repository, or not-for-profit server, upon acceptance by the University of Texas Press.  Authors are not required to remove pre-print and/or post-print versions after publication.

A pre-print must be accompanied by this notice:  "This is an un-refereed, pre-copyedited version of an article submitted for publication in (Journal title, volume, issue number, and year)."

A post-print must be accompanied by this notice:  "This is a pre-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication in (Journal title, volume, issue number, and year) following peer review.  The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available from University of Texas Press."

More information can be found on the UT Press Website.

I&C is now OA under the S2O program

From 2025, Information & Culture participates in Project MUSE's Subscribe to Open (S2O) Program which makes the current year’s content openly accessible, contingent upon the support of MUSE subscribers.  Articles granted open access under this program will remain open on the Muse website indefinitely.  All such articles will be offered under a Creative Commons license, in particular, a CC BY-ND license, which allows for free access to the content but restricts any derivatives of the work.
 
Authors who wish to share their articles with repositories, colleagues, and on personal websites should us the following Creative Commons acknowledgement when sharing their work: 
 
"This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CCBY-ND 4.0" and provide a link to the specific license URL, for example, "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License" with a link to the specifics of the license. Link: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
 
For papers that we published prior to our participation in S2O, authors have permission to make up to twenty copies without contacting the Press, provided that source credit is given. For further questions, including how to access previously published papers, feel free to contact UT Press. 

AI Policy

I&C encourages papers that examine AI and its impact on culture but we discourage the use of AI to generate manuscripts. For more, see https://utpress.utexas.edu/generative-ai-policy-for-authors/

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