Original publication and a permanent version of record.
These are Wide Bracket’s standing publication principles.
Before an outside contribution is published, the author will enter into a written Publication Agreement that puts these principles into legal form.
Version of record
Wide Bracket publishes an original version of record rather than acting primarily as a syndication or republication platform.
Once published, an article becomes part of the permanent Wide Bracket publication record.
Publication rights
The Publication Agreement will grant Wide Bracket the continuing rights necessary to publish and distribute the accepted work, maintain its canonical version of record, preserve and archive it, maintain its publication metadata and any persistent identifiers assigned to it, make transparent corrections, and preserve its bibliographic and editorial history.
The agreement must provide rights sufficient to maintain that publication record after publication rather than allowing the article to be removed unilaterally by the author.
Author reuse
Authors may cite their Wide Bracket article, link to it, discuss and develop its ideas in later work, and quote from it with attribution.
Authors remain free to develop the underlying ideas, analysis, research, data, and subject matter in later work, subject to applicable rights and the Publication Agreement.
Full republication of the Wide Bracket article, or publication of a substantially identical version, is not automatically permitted and requires prior written permission from Wide Bracket.
Before publication
An author may withdraw a manuscript during editorial review.
After a Publication Agreement has been executed but before publication, Wide Bracket may release the author where a genuine legal, regulatory, professional, employer-compliance, or comparable obstacle makes publication inappropriate.
The permanence rules below apply once the article has been published.
After publication
An author may not require Wide Bracket to erase a published article or its publication record merely because the author changes position, changes affiliation, wishes to publish elsewhere, or no longer wants the work associated with the publication.
A material error is handled through a transparent Correction.
A later change in rules, facts, data, or circumstances may be identified as Updated context rather than treated as an error in the original article.
A later Wide Bracket article may Supersede earlier analysis without deleting the earlier publication.
Withdrawal or retraction is reserved for exceptional cases where continuing to serve the article in its ordinary form would be misleading, inappropriate, or legally untenable. In such cases, the bibliographic record and publication history are preserved to the extent legally and technically appropriate.
This page states Wide Bracket’s standing publication principles. The Publication Agreement provided to an individual contributor sets out the applicable legal terms.