Authors are encouraged to share and promote their published work to maximize its visibility and impact within the scholarly community. Sharing policies vary depending on the version of the manuscript being distributed.

Since PQ uses the CC BY 4.0. license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en), authors have expansive rights to share their content publicly.

Preprints: Authors may share their preprints anywhere at any time. Sharing a preprint on a public server, such as an institutional repository or preprint server (e.g. ArXiv), will not be counted as prior publication. If the paper is subsequently accepted and published in PQ, authors should link the preprint version to the final Published Journal Article using its Digital Object Identifier (DOI). The preprint server should clearly identify the work as non-peer reviewed.

Accepted Manuscript (AM) / Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM): Although PQ is Open Access, generally, policies allow authors to share their Accepted Manuscript. Given the journal’s CC BY 4.0. license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en), authors are permitted to share the AM publicly, provided they adhere to the Creative Commons license (CC-BY-NC-ND or similar) and link to the final published version via the DOI.

Published Journal Article (PJA): Because PQ articles are published Open Access (freely available immediately upon publication), they can be shared publicly according to the terms of the CC BY 4.0. license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en). The final published version is openly available on the journal’s website, and authors can share it using the article’s DOI link.

Sharing research data that underlies the article, often through repositories, is also strongly encouraged to increase transparency and reproducibility.