Editorial policies

This document is a draft. It is not legal advice and it is not in force. It becomes required only when the owner adopts it by a recorded decision in nexus-governance. Until then nothing here blocks anyone’s work.

• Every publication is free to read. No paywall, no embargo on text, no fee to readers or authors.
• Text and figures are CC BY 4.0. Data is CC0 1.0. Code uses Apache-2.0 or MIT. See the licensing FAQ.
• Authors keep copyright and grant a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual licence.

Editions, findings, evidence, analyses, cases, methods, data packages, corrections and translations. Nothing reaches an edition without the review chain.

Five passes: evidence, method, stewardship, copy and claims, release. Each pass is done by a named person who is not the author. See the peer review policy.

Sponsors and members do not see or influence decisions on a submission. Sponsorship is the only form of support. We take no donations. Community votes set topics and calls only, never the outcome of a submission.

Authorship, data availability, competing interests and AI use are declared at submission. AI cannot be an author or a reviewer of record. Complaints follow the ethics and misconduct procedure.

We publish no rankings, ratings or certifications as fact. Unknown values are shown as unknown. We do not claim membership of any body we have not joined. We align with the COPE Core Practices; this is a commitment, not a membership claim.

A correction is a new version of the same identifier with a notice. Published content is never edited in place. See the corrections log and the takedown and dispute procedure.

Contributors, editors and reviewers sign the declarations that apply to their role. Acceptances are recorded in the Agreements ledger. These are acceptance records by signed-in accounts, not qualified electronic signatures.

The Secretariat: the contact form.